Stop Arguing for Your Cage 🗣️

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” — Richard Bach

We’re taught to be humble. To stay in our lane. To know our limits.

“If you argue for your limitations, you’ll keep them.”

But what if some of those “limits” weren’t truth, just well-rehearsed stories?

“I’m just not a disciplined person.”
“I suck at relationships.”
“I could never do that, people like me don’t.”
“I’ve always had anxiety, it’s just who I am.”

I wore that last one like a badge.
Explained it away like a lawyer in court.
Presented evidence. Made my case airtight.

"When you win the case against yourself... again."

Because deep down, it was easier to argue for my fear than to risk proving it wrong.

At least if I lost while hiding behind my “limits,” it wouldn’t be my fault.

But here’s the trap:

The more convincingly you argue for your pain, your stagnation, your smallness…
The more real it becomes.

It solidifies. Becomes part of your identity.
Until eventually, your suffering isn’t just something you carry.

It’s who you think you are.

And nothing keeps a person stuck more than believing their …