Challenge Your Limiting Beliefs

The sum of your personal beliefs literally draws the line around what you can, and cannot, achieve in your life.

If your beliefs about yourself and your potentials are positive and empowering, your world is full of opportunities and success. But if you have negative limiting beliefs about yourself and your potential, your life will be filled with one disappointment, frustration and failure after another. That’s just the way beliefs work.

Do you wish to get what you want in live a lot easier? Well, go after the old limiting beliefs holding you back. This begins with having the personal courage to identify them. Once you identify a belief that’s somehow limiting you, it’s time to go to work.

Here is a simple step you can take this week toward doing your work with your limiting beliefs: Replace your old beliefs with success-affirming positive new beliefs. Beliefs actually CHANGE reality. Start by reminding yourself that your beliefs are only habitual ways of thinking. And like any habit, a belief can be revised. By the way, it does not matter if you believe your positive new statement at first. The more often you consciously focus on your new statement, the faster your subconscious mind will simply accept it as true.

I just want to end with this true story that most of you know by now. The movie Lincoln and the winner of the “Best Actor” Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln. If you have seen the movie you will agree that it was such a great acting of Daniel Day-Lewis. This is a good example of how the subconscious mind will accept any belief or statement you focus on. Daniel Day-Lewis “demanded” from everyone while he was acting or during breaks, including families, to be called or addressed as President Lincoln. While acting and filming, he” believed”, he was Lincoln.

This is your challenge for this week.  Pick one negative belief of yours and replace it with a new positive statement (belief). Let’s say that you are never on time for appointments or meetings. Using the self-talk strategy, start saying the following; “I am always on time” and repeat this over and over and over. It may take you a week or a month or three months, but you will soon be punctual in your appointments and you will start respecting other people time.

Let me know if you have experienced changing a negative belief, how long it took to replace it with the positive belief and what strategy did you use.