Identifying and changing self-limiting beliefs
Why changing our beliefs will change our lives
Our beliefs- about ourselves and our potential, about others and about happiness and “how the world works” more than any other single factor affect our happiness, motivation and results in every area of our lives.
Our beliefs are like roadmaps that we use to navigate life with. They affect our self definition and self -expectations, the goals we set, how hard we work to achieve our goals and enjoy the process, the quality of the relationships we create in life, the degree of positive emotions we experience and virtually every area of our lives
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We have picked up many of our core beliefs from the time we were very young children. We often have held them so long that we seldom think about them. Some of our beliefs might be positive and empowering. Others less so and some can be significantly keeping us from recognizing and bringing out our real potential to experience happiness, motivation and results in all or some of the essential areas of our life.
If any of our beliefs are vague, incomplete or flawed it’s like having a roadmap with mistakes in it. The harder and more sincerely we try to follow it the less effective we can be in increasing and sustaining happiness, motivation and effectiveness in any specific area of our lives.
Stephen Covey, author of the best selling “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” deeply understood the power of our beliefs. He put it this way. “If you want minor change, change your attitude. If you want major change, change your beliefs.”
The great thing is that our beliefs are a choice. Changing even a single core belief will significantly change anyone’s life. Imagine if you started learning, reinforcing and applying the core beliefs of very happy, motivated and effective people and put them into action in your own unique life in your own unique way increasingly day by day. What would the results be? How does this compare to what you are doing right now?
