Overprotective Parents Compose Strong Boundaries

Overprotective parents - Parents often impose strong boundaries on their children for the child's safety, but those boundaries also limit what the child can and can't do. This limits the child's ability to take risks and discover his own potential. It's not conscious, but this over-protectiveness causes people to not want any situation that involves risk. Without knowing it, they are waiting for their parents to support them before they do take a risk. They're not used to handling challenges so they back down when things get difficult.

Fear of the unknown - Whenever we try to do something new, we may not be sure what the outcome will be. Often this leads to going back to the safety and security of what we know so that we are not taking a risk

Often, these demands may continued by the child himself later in life during school and at work. These unreasonable demands leave the child and the adult with the feeling that they can never satisfy and that they can never be or do enough. These feelings may be intensified by managers and even by the media. We are constantly bombarded with images of

perfection and success in the media. This can cause many people to become even more insecure about what they have to offer. These people often retreat back into a comfort zone where they know they can function without worrying about failing. Unfortunately, it leaves them stuck in a place where they are unhappy with themselves, but afraid to move ahead.

Insecurity - Sometimes people who think they are above average have a strong fear of failure. With insecure people, the bigger the ego, the greater the fear of loss when risking failure. For an insecure person, his loss of status in the eyes of other people who might discover he's not as powerful as he seems is the person's excuse for not taking a risk and not taking action. This way he doesn't have to deal with the idea of