The only thing between you and your desires is your beliefs. Your beliefs determine your success in all areas of your life because they drive your behaviour. Beliefs are the thoughts we have about ourselves, other people and the world, that fuel our actions.
Most of our beliefs are just made up. They concern about the things that we have absorbed when we were at ages 0 to 7 years and those we pick up as we go along life’s ways. They can be altered though, depending on how we want to achieve the things we want.In fact, as we journey through this world we will occasionally be faced with setbacks and challenges that will make us question our beliefs. This happens, mostly, when we are on that adventure to find our purpose or to accomplish our goals. We should learn to find those beliefs that will hamper our way to the goals. Here are three ways of knowing our limiting beliefs.
There are 3 ways to identify your limiting beliefs.
1. Reacting to other people’s behaviours
How do we react to the things that other people are saying or doing? Do we take them negatively? If other people are putting across their own values and beliefs, do we contradict them. What do we tend to think or feel towards others? In situations where we react in a negative manner, what do we say to ourselves and to others? Are we being judgmental? The reactions we have entail our beliefs. The words that come out of our minds are our conviction. We have to remember that it is not about them but us. It conveys the limits we have set in ourselves. And if we don’t overcome this, we are never going to get to where we want to be.
2. Reflection
How do we see our lives now? What do our lives offer us? Do we like the things being given to us? Do we have the relationship we aspired, the job we wanted or the money we dreamed to spend? If we don’t, then why? Why are we not having the things we want out of life? What are the beliefs that stop us from achieving these things?”.
If we don’t have our dream job and we think that it’s because jobs are scarce and we need to accept whatever comes in our way even if we hate what we’re having now, that becomes our limiting belief. Why is this so? Simply because we refuse to see beyond what we have now. We just accept the things even if we’re miserably rooted to them .
3. Continuing Life Patterns
Take note of the things or patterns that recur in our lives. Do we often start relationships with the worst kinds of people? In any jobs we have had, did we always end up being passed over on promotions? How many times have we started over because we keep on choosing the wrong signs in our relationships with people? We have to get rid of our biases to identify these patterns of limiting beliefs. These patterns could very well affect the totality of our beings. They could be running two or more of the aspects in our lives.
We’ll have to recognize the clusters of beliefs that are connected to each other as well. Make sure that we get to the bottom of each and realize how they are affecting our lives as one.Once we’re done identifying the limiting beliefs that keep us from reaching our goals, it would be easy for us to change them. When they are changed, only then can we be happy and thankful of the fruits of our desires.
Lynn Robinson is a NLP Master Practitioner certified trainer. Lynn trains people how to use the power of the mind to get the results they want in their life.
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