In some of our previous episodes,
we've been exploring self limiting beliefs. What are they and why are they deadly for entrepreneurs?
Now the good news about self-limiting beliefs is that they can actually
be fairly easy to identify once you've focused your attention on them,
and further more you can eliminate and transform them.
Today I'm going to share with you one of the most commonly used techniques
to eliminate self-limiting beliefs. It's called the logical technique and it has six fairly straightforward steps.
Step one, you're going to sit down and write down some of your
most commonly held self-limiting beliefs.
Now the way that you can recognize them is that they typically are some kind
of negative statement about yourself or the world.
And they also tend to recur over and over again in your mind.
So it's that little voice in the back of your head telling you
that you can't do this or you never will be able to or you're just not blah blah blah enough...
Start with one self-limiting belief at a time.
Since you have to shoot these guys down one by one
I recommend starting with the easiest one first. The one that you know beyond
a doubt is not universally true. For example, all people who are successful started first
with money. Clearly, that's not universally true. So it's easier to start with one that
is easy to refute rather than a self-limiting belief that has a long, painful history that
goes back many years to some type of childhood trauma.
Step two, ask yourself why you believe this belief to be true.
Sit down and reflect upon every instance and experience
you had that reinforces this self-limiting belief.
You want to trace this string of experiences back to the earliest
experience that you had, because chances are
that was the source experience that originated the self-limiting belief.
Step number three. Sit down and make a list of all the instances
and experiences that you had in your life that actually showed
this belief to be false or untrue. Also think
about other examples in the world where this belief isn't true. So if you go to our example
of all successful people are successful because they started off with money think about people
that really were rags to riches success stories like Oprah Winfrey. Make a list of these individuals.
Step number four -- neutralize your self-limiting beliefs
with positive visualization. Now the
thing about self-limiting beliefs is that chances are you've been thinking these beliefs
over and over again so you're accustomed to thinking them it's become a pattern. So every
time you find yourself thinking a self-limiting belief, then immediately neutralize it with
a strong visualization of some example where this belief isn't true. So for example, if
you believe that you aren't successful because you didn't start with a pool of money to begin
with, then immediately overlay that belief with a thought about someone who did succeed
that rose to wealth and fame from nothing who may have had even more unfortunate circumstances that you have.
Step five -- rinse, lather and repeat.
Keep working through your list of self-limiting beliefs
until you're able to come up with an appropriate, positive visualization that
you can use for every one.
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