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Break Through the Barriers
When barriers hold your life back you can break through them.
Chuck Yeager just passed away. He is perhaps the finest test pilot in the history of human flight.
He broke an unbreakable barrier in 1947. Some believed that wouldn’t be possible — it was a barrier, after all. But he did it, flying the Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound.
Chuck Yeager was a brave man. More than once he took an experimental aircraft to the limits, risking life and limb. Where many other heroes died in their attempts, he lived to be 97 years old.
Yeager’s record is historical. Now, fighter jets are designed to break the sound barrier with less and less effort. The fastest aircraft have since successfully traveled more than 6 times faster than the speed of sound.
In my life, I have had various barriers to break through. You, undoubtedly, have as well. While some barriers exist to keep us safe — others are meant to be broken.
Barriers between you and who you desire to be fall into the latter category.
Often, the greatest barrier of them all is you.
You needn’t have a test pilot’s bravery to break these barriers. But they do require courage, and there will be fear to be faced and overcome along the way.
