How Good Can You Stand It?
By: May McCarthy

    Most accomplished people will tell you that establishing goals is vital to achieving success; if you don’t know where you want to go, you’ll never get there. I agree! It’s important to remember, however, that the challenge in receiving something that you want may not in the goal itself, but in the mental equivalent level that you’ve established for yourself. Many people have created an unconscious limit to the good that they can stand receiving, and their subconscious will do whatever it can to keep them within that comfortable and familiar limit.

    Your mental equivalent level is your self-imposed boundary or limit on what you feel comfortable receiving. This unconscious belief makes you feel uncomfortable and usually sounds something like “I am not worthy” or “I don’t deserve this” when thinking about greater goals being realized.  If you have a hidden limit and you want to receive something greater than what you believe to be possible, you may experience a delay in receiving your good or you may not be able to hold on to it once you finally get it. Following are a couple examples of what this looks like.