Brain Training For Success – Lesson 2.2 – How Limiting Beliefs Affect Your Life

Welcome to Lesson #10 of the Brain Training for Success course!

In the last lesson, we examined how excuses are justifications for remaining stuck in your current circumstances. The excuses you use are a form of limiting belief.

You’ll soon have a high-level understanding of how your various limiting beliefs affect your attitude, actions, and results.

Limiting beliefs probably have more of a negative impact on a person’s life than any other factor.

After all, most of us are pretty reasonable – we’re not going to spend a lot of time on something that we believe is doomed for failure.

Why would you even try to lose weight if you genuinely believed that everyone in your family was destined to be overweight?

We all carry around numerous limiting beliefs.

They come from a variety of sources as well as from our own interpretation of the world around us.

Humans can’t help but learn, but sometimes we learn things that are inaccurate.

Fortunately, you can eliminate limiting beliefs and replace them with beliefs that empower you.

Imagine replacing a limiting belief with one that makes life easier and enables you to be more successful.

It’s Important To Follow A Plan Or Process

Most things in life are like baking a cake. If you do all the right things when you’re making a cake, in the end you’ll get a cake. It’s impossible to have any other result.

Similarly, by following a process, you can banish your limiting beliefs.

Processes can be wonderful things. For example:

• if you have an effective process for getting up and getting ready in the morning, you’ll never be late
• if you have a healthy process for deciding what to eat, you’re likely pretty healthy

What Is A Limiting Belief?

For our purposes, we’re going to define it as:

“A limiting belief is one that causes life to be less than completely satisfying.“

You might believe that you can’t be a doctor, but if you have no interest in becoming a doctor, what’s the harm?

There’s no point in dealing with a belief like that, because eliminating it isn’t going to have a positive impact on your life.

Focus Your Energy Where It Can Have The Greatest Impact

The belief that you can’t be a doctor is not a limiting belief based on our definition. So, limiting beliefs are those beliefs that restrict desirable options or your happiness.

Consider that if all of your beliefs were 100% accurate, you would be able to have nearly anything you’ve ever wanted. Believing the right things has a huge impact on your level of success.

Limiting beliefs affect our lives in so many ways, and none of them are good. If you can eliminate the five most limiting beliefs you possess, your life would forever change for the better.

The Success Process

One of the main ways that limiting beliefs have a significant negative impact on our lives is that they short-circuit the success process that follows:

1. Decide clearly what you want. It’s tough to accomplish something meaningful if you don’t identify it first.
2. Do something to make it happen. It takes action to attain any goal. Some people claim that you can practically wish a Porsche into your driveway without lifting a finger, but the real truth is that some action is required. You’ll have to do something to accomplish anything meaningful.
3. Adjust your approach as you gain new expertise. You might not know enough at first to realize the perfect path. If it’s not working, do something else. Adjust your approach based on your results.
4. Keep going until you’re successful. If you kept improving your approach and you never gave up, how could you possibly fail? It’s a simple process, but frequently, the simple processes can get you where you want to be. We spend too much time figuring ways to work around our faulty beliefs.

If you have a limiting belief, you’re probably not going to complete Step 2.

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