I’ve come to see that the only problem anyone ever has is believing things that aren’t true. ~ Steve Chandler

When I was six years old, I spent a couple of weeks during the summer trying to count to infinity.

Someone had told me that infinity is the biggest number that there is, so I decided I was going to count until I reached that number.

I made it to 200,000 in one week before lost track. In another week, I made it to 300,000 before someone explained to me that wasn’t how infinity worked! So I went back to catching lizards and keeping them in shoeboxes in my closet.

(We didn’t have the internet back then. I had a lot of time on my hands!)

Six-year-old-me didn’t understand the concept of infinity, and no one ever told me that you can’t count to reach it. So I tried.

But as adults, we know better.

We understand human limitations, how people let us down, the power of The Resistance, and the pain of disappointment.

We no longer see the world as one with infinite possibilities; instead, we have constructed a safe box to live in that won’t be disappointing and where I won’t be embarrassed.

There’s no more counting to infinity. There are rules that people smarter than me have figured out and I need to play by those rules.

Unless we don’t.

What do you believe that’s holding you back? What if you chose to believe something else? (After all, it’s just a belief.)