Moving Beyond Our Limits: What I learned from John C. Maxwell's No Limits Book

Recently I had the pleasure of reading John C. Maxwell's Book, "No Limits: Blow the Cap Off Your Capacity." If I were rich, I would buy a copy for every student I teach and/or mentor for the rest of my life. His latest book is that powerful. His book is broken into three main sections: Awareness, Ability, and Choices. All three are essential to our ability to reach our capacity and move beyond it.

Often the daily stress of life leads us to believe that many things we desire to achieve are not achievable. Most are, and the difficult ones often can be made when we see beyond what we think or have been told is our capacity.

John C. Maxwell's book looks at our current obtained capabilities into seven distinct capabilities: energy, emotional, thinking, people, creative, production, and leadership. Here are few things that stood out for me in this section of the book:


  • The concept of the Triple R's: Requirement, Return, and Reward 
  • "Dysfunctional people want others to function on their level. Average people want others to be average. High achievers want others to achieve"(Maxwell, J.C., 2017, p. 63).
  • "Those who are excellent at their work have learned to comfortably coexist with failure" (Maxwell, J.C., 2017, p.73).
  • "Mastery lives quietly atop a mountain of mistakes" (Maxwell, J.C., 2017, p. 72). 
  • The three-E formula: Exposure, Expression, and Expansion. 
  • The continue discussion of how creative people embrace failure often in a manner that we adopted during childhood, where we fall but always rise and go to the next thing. 
  • "The problem is that most of us have uphill dreams but downhill habits" (Maxwell, J.C., 2017, p. 133). 
After each of capabilities, Maxwell provides the reader with thought provoking questions which are not only perfect for journaling and self-reflection but also great for group discussion.  

The final section of the book looks at the choices we make and breaks them down into 10 capabilities: responsibility, character, abundance, discipline, intentionality, attitude, risk, spirituality, growth, and partnership. Here are a few other great things that stood out to me as well: 

  • The Five Rules for Accomplishing a Difficult Task: IPFAC
  • How opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. 
  • "Excuses, for example, are success stoppers. The habit of making excuses creates reasons in our minds for not being responsible for our lives" (Maxwell, J.C., 2017, p.181). He future goes on to how they prevent us from learning and rob us of change. 
  • "Never forget: everything worthwhile is uphill. Achieving what you want takes time, effort, consistency, energy, and commitment" (Maxwell, J.C., 2017, p.213). 
This is one of those books that you probably will one to re-read, reference, and share with countless human beings because of this one fact: All of us desire to achieve the unachievable. The question is "Do we believe that we have the capability to climb that mountain?" I say we do, especially if there is a Bengal Tiger chasing us. Be inspired and read this book! 

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