"Whether you think you can or you can't, either way you are right." Henry Ford.
Your beliefs impace every area of your life. It is vital to know what yo truly believe, especially in relation to your career and success. What we believe about ourselves ans what we can achieve becomes our 'self-talk' which seriously affects how we live our lives. Limiting beliefs can stop success in its tracks and cause you to unconsciously sabotage all you seek to achieve.
Your beliefs creae your life so you need o be aware of your beliefs around areas of your life that you find challenging.
If you are finding it difficult to get the promotion you want or find a new, exciting and financially rewarding job ask yourself what you believe is possible for you to achieve in this area. If yo harbour the belief, somewhere deep inside, that 'other people earn six-figure incomes - it's not for the likes of me', or 'I always struggle with money - I can never earn enough', or 'I'm just not good enough/smart enough/stylish enough....' or something similarly self-defeating then there is work to be done - and quickly.
Where and when did your negative beliefs originate? You weren't born with them. Often these less than helpful beliefs came from a parent, teacher or other well-meaning adult and were told to us at a very early age, thus strongly imprinting on our minds because they came from an adult that we looked up to and believed to be right about everything.
They didn't set out to give you bad beliefs and misleading information, they truly belived they were doing the right thing. But now you can decide for yourself what you want to believe.
So now you know that your beliefs aren't necessarily true and probably came from someone else's reality and not your own, you can begin to deconstruct the negatives and build your own, positive and constructive beliefs.
Decide how you want each area of your life to be and declare that is how it is - then find evidence to support each new belief. Anthony Robbins likens beliefs to a table top with legs of evidence supporting it. Your job is to find evidence to support your new, positive, life-affirming beliefs and evidence to destroy the old, negative beliefs.
So you might begin with compiling a list of all your achievements over the course of your life - include every single award, qualification, success, achievement, strength and complement you have received over your life to date. If you do this properly it should take a long time as you will hav ehundreds of entries and be adding to them each day. Read your list daily for at least 30 days to firmly imprint on your mind the fact that you are are a huge success with many achievements.
Then, at the end of the day write down at least 5 positives from the day in your Victory Log. Include what was good about the day and why, how it made you feel and how you can build on it for the future. You might include resisting that cream cake, taking the stairs instead of the life or landing the sale you wanted. it doesn't matter what it is - if it is positive and made you feel grreat, then it gets included. Read your entries on days when you aren't feeling so good about life to remind you of how great you and your life really are.
Top Tip
Build a new table of positive beliefs with strong legs of evidence to support them.
Copyright 2011, Sue Courtney, Success & Image Ltd. All rights reserved.
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