You cant test your destiny cautiously. The key is: forfeit the safety of what we are for what we could become. Unless you do something beyond what youve already done, you will never grow. Always pick an obstacle big enough to matter when you overcome it.

Know the rules, then break some. Take the limits off. Dont accept good enough as good enough. Tolerating mediocrity in others makes you more mediocre.

When youre a realistic person in everything you do, your focus is only on this immediate, measurable moment. Thinking this way limits and restricts you in considering the unlimited possibilities of the future.

You can't make a place for yourself in the sun if you only live under the family tree. Go! Launch out! Be involved in something bigger than you. Do more!

An over-cautious person burns bridges of opportunity before he gets to them. Most of the people who sit around and wait for the harvest haven't planted anything. The average person doesn't want much and usually gets even less.

Until you give yourself to some great cause, you havent really begun to fully live. "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing" (Helen Keller).

- John L Mason, from the book Know Your Limits, Then Ignore Them! (to find out more about this book, please go to =>www.freshword.com/resources)