Limiting Beliefs are Sabotaging Your Success

Have you been wondering why you can’t seem to make the progress you desire? It seems you take one step forward and two steps backwards. You know what to do, but just can’t seem to do it. The problem is that there is a war going on within your mind. You know what you want to do but you have negative self-limiting beliefs that are fighting your positive desires. This battle is like attempting to fill a pot with a hole in it. It doesn’t matter how much water you have, or how often you try to fill it, the pot will leak and not maintain the level of water that matches the effort you’ve exhausted.

What you believe about yourself, life, and the world impact you more than you realize. How many times have you been told that negative thoughts become self-fulfilling prophecies? It is true. For example, if you believe you will never lose weight, it becomes almost impossible to change eating habits or lifestyle because the new actions are in direct opposition to what you believe.

There are many self-limiting beliefs. Here are a few of the most common:

§  Others are responsible for your current life circumstances. For example, you may have said “They, won’t let me do…” or “if they hadn’t…, I wouldn’t be...”

§  Past failures will be an indicator of future failures

§  There is not enough time to do what you desire

§  You are too old to start anything new

§  There are not enough resources, or you don’t have enough

§  You don’t deserve success

§  You are not worthy to be loved

Overcoming self-limiting beliefs requires you to counter the negative with new and positive belief statements.  

Here are a few other recommendations:

§  Become more self-aware. Ask yourself, “Is what I’m thinking really true?”  If it is not or is based on a self-limiting belief, then it must go

§  Believe in yourself

§  Tell yourself that you are capable of learning new things and improving current skillsets

§  Remind yourself, that there is no shortage of money and that your issue is ideas not resources

§  Believe you are worthy of success

§  Remember that a past failure will not stop you from being successful in the future

The best news is you have the power to change any self-limiting beliefs and consequently change your mind!

Click below if you would like my Self-Limiting Beliefs Worksheet so that you can begin today to make the changes in your life that you desire to see!

Limiting Beliefs Assessment