Your beliefs hold a strong impact on your self-esteem. They control what you believe; they motivate you and allow you to spire for greatness in whatever you choose to set your sights on.
These beliefs have a strong impact on how you do business. It affects how you coordinate your team members to reach your goals and how you build relationships with your external environment.
When your beliefs reduce your ability to progress in your business or personal life, they have become limiting beliefs that you need to get through.
While working to understand limiting beliefs, it is important to understand why limiting beliefs are formed in the first place.
Limiting beliefs are thoughts that arise mostly as a defense mechanism to avoid disappointments, frustrations, stress, and failure. When you have suffered through an intense experience previously, you generate these beliefs as a way to shield you from feeling these negative ways.
These limiting beliefs are formed through personal beliefs and experiences, hereditary beliefs, fear, society, social circles and expectations, and religious beliefs.
The problem with limiting beliefs is that they prevent you from trying new things, gaining new experiences, and succeeding in a new venture.
Though you may think that you have everything well in hand, you can discover if you have these limiting beliefs too. Simply think deeply about yourself and your desires. If there is something you wish to achieve but aren’t working towards it, it’s because of a limiting belief that is holding you back.
These 5 steps, that I’m about to share with you, can help you overcome your limiting beliefs.
1. Identify Your Limiting Beliefs
By shining a light on the limiting beliefs that plague you, you can begin to overcome them. Take a deep breath and analyze the feeling of fear or limitations that hold you back. Are they currently preventing you from starting something you’d like to do?
To help you identify limiting beliefs, you want to start by taking some time for self-reflection. Think about the areas in your life where you feel stuck, anxious, or unfulfilled. Ask yourself why you might be feeling this way and what thoughts or beliefs are contributing to these feelings.
The best thing to do is identify all the limiting beliefs you have and start with the largest one. By doing this, you can tackle the others with more confidence.
Remember that identifying and overcoming limiting beliefs is an ongoing process. It may take time and effort to change deeply ingrained thought patterns, but with persistence and self-compassion, you can make significant progress in overcoming these limitations and achieving your goals in the timeframe you desire.
2. Determine What Made Them
By identifying these beliefs, you finally acknowledge that they reside within you. It is now time to recognize that they are just beliefs and not facts. By putting them in a specific box of thought, you prevent this belief from growing uncontrollably.
Pay attention to negative thought patterns and self-talk. When you catch yourself thinking or saying things like, "I can't do this," "I'm not good enough," “I’ve never been good at,” or "I always fail at this," these may be indicators of limiting beliefs. When you continually say these things to yourself, you are reaffirming what you don’t want instead of saying what you want.
After doing this, you can determine what experiences or relationships instilled these beliefs in you. Only then can you acknowledge that they are based on falsities and not facts.
Consider keeping a journal to record your thoughts and emotions. Writing down your thoughts can help you identify recurring themes and beliefs that are holding you back.
3. Challenge these Beliefs
Now it’s time to get your gloves out and fight these beliefs. Analyze them, tackle them, and ask deep questions that unravel these beliefs. Find reasonable explanations and solutions to the things that plague you. Ask yourself if there is any concrete evidence to support this belief. Often, limiting beliefs are based on assumptions rather than facts.
It is also important to distance yourself from some of these causing experiences. If you cannot change the society you live in or the hereditary experiences through familial relations, you can expand your understanding of the topic and challenge every instance claimed to be facts.
When you challenge these beliefs, you gradually reduce their hold in your life and see it for what it truly is; just a belief. When you challenge these beliefs, you choose to control what you accept as facts and carefully curate the type of energy you invite into your life.
4. Recognize its Consequences
The best way to get rid of limiting beliefs is to acknowledge their damning consequences in your life. What has it prevented you from achieving? Will you be happier or more productive without those beliefs? Would you have achieved even more? Are you willing to try again and accept that failure and disappointment shouldn’t be a permanent feeling?
When you recognize the consequences of limiting beliefs, you draw attention to where you could be in the world and how much better you can be feeling.
You need to recognize the consequences of limiting beliefs because they do more than just hurt you and your life. They can also breed negative feelings towards your friends, family, and acquaintances through jealousy and envy that can alienate you.
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5. Adopt a New Belief
The main point of identifying, recognizing, and challenging these limiting beliefs is that you find a way to overcome them. The best way to overcome limiting beliefs is by wiping them out and adopting new empowering beliefs in their place.
Choose something new to believe in. Understand that a one or two-time failure doesn’t automatically spell continuous doom in that respect. Though the transition to adopting new beliefs may not be easy, it doesn’t make it impossible.
Use positive affirmations to reinforce your new beliefs. Repeat these affirmations regularly to reprogram your subconscious mind.
Take action and start working on implementing new beliefs in your life from this day forward. Fight through every limiting belief that springs up in a familiar setting and keep replacing it with a new belief until you have successfully shifted your mindset from seeking the negative.
Root yourself in positive thinking and surround yourself with the right company that supports you and helps you grow. Your limiting beliefs will gradually disappear, and a new, refreshing mindset will sit permanently in its place.
For more help you with overcoming your limiting beliefs, some of which you may not know you have, so you can create your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today to schedule your complimentary consultation.
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