Overcoming

The biggest block to my own growth is between my ears, my own self-concept and beliefs about my own capabilities.  That block is also the hardest to recognize when it is operating and then to overcome it.  I cannot determine, with any precision, how that block is operating right now, partly due to the fact that it is clear that I am much more than I thought I could be and that I don’t know the limits to that.  Several years ago, I thought of myself as a recovering alcoholic with a problematic history and who was raised in a moderately abusive home.  As a result I had a low self-concept and had a a restricted view of my capabilities.  I have now, largely, overcome that view of myself and have expanded my views.