Limiting beliefs

Beliefs are thoughts that we think often enough that they seem factual to us, even if they aren’t a fact.

That means that sometimes, we create beliefs that limit us, and they were totally fabricated in our own minds to begin with.

Here are some examples of common limiting beliefs:

1. Money doesn’t grow on trees

2. I can’t go after my dreams because I might fail

3. I can’t be myself or I will be judged

4. I’m not good enough/smart enough/beautiful enough to do X

A limiting belief is not a fact. It’s only a thought that we’ve been thinking for so long we can’t distinguish it from fact.

And what do we do when we believe something? We act accordingly. You believe you can’t go after your dreams? You won’t.

Changing your beliefs is paramount to changing your actions, and your results.

The good news is, if a belief is a thought we think often enough that they seem factual to us, then we can choose our beliefs.

in order to change your belief, you need to think a new thought enough times until it becomes a belief.

Examples of empowering beliefs to replace the limiting ones:

1. Money doesn’t grow on trees / Money is made by the value I bring to the world

2. I can’t go after my dreams because I might fail / Success is built on pile of failures

3. I can’t be myself or I will be judged / When I show my true self, I give others permission to do the same

4. I’m not good enough/smart enough/beautiful enough to do X / I am enough

Here’s the thing: saying it once isn’t enough. You have to think that thought so many times it becomes second nature. Tell yourself your new empowering belief every single morning.

Waking up? I am enough.
Making a cup of tea? I am enough.
Getting the post? I am enough.

Write down your top 3 limiting beliefs, and then write the new belief you would like to believe next to it.
Make it a habit to repeat your new belief every day, over and over.