Limiting Beliefs. We’ve all got them, but most of the time we don’t even realize it. We also don’t realize how much they control us. But really, why would we? We’ve operated from those beliefs our whole lives–they’re our version of normal. A few weeks ago, a friend invited me to go for a hike on the “mountains” here in Hot Springs. It was a beautiful day and it seemed like a fun thing to do now that I am getting out in the world. A year ago, I’d managed to survive Peru at 12,000 feet without dying and I’d lived in the Rockies, so I figured a little “hill” in Arkansas at basically sea level would be no big deal. Well, it was a good theory, but it was really wrong. I’ve never been much of a hiker, although I did get coerced into a couple of backpack trips through the Rockies back when I was in my twenties–nearly died once there too. As a teenager, I ran track for a couple of years. I was fast out of the gate on sprints and won lots of ribbons, but I couldn’t make it around the track one time even
