Test your limits, and others will test yours, too.

There is a lot to be said to push yourself into uncomfortable levels. You learn that you are far more capable than you initially believed.

Your limits are also the space where you develop greater self-confidence. You have to do confident things in order to become confident.

When you are testing your limits, you will find that others will begin to test and challenge you, too.

When working hard, people close to you may say "why are you doing so much? take it easy! Give yourself a break."

Do you listen?

Or do you think about what this question can do for you. Can you be self-aware enough to acknowledge that this is also a test of your limits? Will you easily succumb to the easy out of relaxing? Or will you accept that yes you are working hard and know that you should continue to work hard?

It is usually the people closest to you who ask you to take it easy.

They are testing your determination. Will you take the easy way out and slack on your workday because "you deserve it". Or skip cleaning up after dinner because "you should just put your feet up." Or take the day off from your workout, one day won't kill you right?

Or maybe with your employees or students or those working for you, they test to see what you will let THEM get away with.

This tests your leadership.

What kind of leader will you show up as today?

Tests are everywhere, every day. You can choose to acknowledge and accept the test. Or you can divert and stay where you have been.