Life Limiters

Someone who wants to lead in life has no desire to achieve status quo. They will do what it takes to find momentum and maximum potential. So at times evaluation needs to take place to discover what it is that is restricting or limiting that maximum potential.

In NASCAR there is a device called a restrictor plate. This device limits air flow into the intake of the engine decreasing the potential power from 700+ horsepower to a little over 400 horsepower. The goal is to bring the track speed down to a safer level and to create an equal level of competition. The problem is at a track like Talladega where the cars begin to run so tight it puts everybody at risk when a crash occurs. One of the best ways to stay safe is to get out ahead and lead. Every analogy breaks down if you take it too far, but I see in this the leadership lesson of doing whatever it takes to take the restrictor plates off of life and off of our organizations. We have to live to lead life, not allow things that limit to cause us to run in the pack risking our potential and success.

Life Limiters:

-Surrounding yourself with people who praise you but never challenge you.
-Ceasing to read, listen, and gather information from a wide variety of sources.
-Obsessing on things you can't do when you're not even doing what you can do.
-Making excuses for what you are not willing to do
-Failing to seek out resources for what you are unable to do.
-Thinking that success in life has nothing to do with spiritual principles.
-Doing life, business, or ministry alone.
-Continuing to repeat & maintain the same patterns, decisions, and relationships and hoping they will lead to a different outcome.
-Blaming everything and everybody else for the life or quality of organization that you currently have.


I'm sure we could all add to this list a hundred things. Why? Because we all have individual restrictor plates that try to limit us. Look at yourself, stop making excuses, and rip that baby off. Your life, business, and ministry wants to soar, to be lead to new heights, to achieve and maintain a speed that brings success. Don't be the restrictor plate in your family or organization. Do whatever it takes to lift your life limiters