Over and over, we’ve been told we have “limiting beliefs,” and these beliefs represent where we are in life.
The prevailing presumption is that limiting beliefs are a “problem” that must be fixed if we want to be successful.
Instead of viewing them as a new starting point on the road of creation, we cringe at the thought of having them at all. This puts the focus on ourselves instead of putting it on what we want to accomplish.
The questions I propose are as follows:
1. Is it really necessary to focus on your personal limiting beliefs?
2. Can you bypass your limiting beliefs and become successful in spite of them?
Think about these questions for a short spell and see if you can come up with something you succeeded in, even though you didn’t necessarily believe you had the qualities necessary to pull it off.
I’m betting you can.
I have a client who dropped nearly 100 pounds over the past year. For much of that time he’s been telling me, “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe how the weight came off so easily. I can’t believe how it’s staying off.”
Never once, not even a single time, have I interrupted him to say, “Don’t say that. You must believe in yourself.”
This man is living proof that the key to his weight loss success wasn’t predicated on whether he believed he could or couldn’t do it. It was all about mentally picturing the kind of results he wanted and the steps he was to follow to attain them.
If you can mentally picture a result and the process you want to follow, you will naturally begin moving in a fortuitous direction. No amount of time sitting around convincing yourself that you believe you can is going to accomplish the task for you.
Yet, a short period of time visualizing the result you want, imagining, feeling and sensing yourself already there, while suspending the idea of whether or not you believe you have “the stuff” to pull it off, will move you closer to the target.
Don’t believe me?
Then test it out and see for yourself how the crock of “limiting beliefs” isn’t holding you back at all.
Give no thought as to whether or not you believe you can accomplish a goal. Instead, take the focus off your beliefs and put it on “the thing.”
See it. Feel it. Live it.
Matt Furey
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