Nov 28, 2013

Breaking through your limiting beliefs

Most of us are not realizing our full potential.

And the worst part is, we know it.  We are limited by some reason why we aren’t achieving everything we strive for.  At the root of many of our excuses are deep rooted beliefs on why we are not taking powerful steps to lead a company through a restructure, enter a new market, run a marathon, or pursue a passion – you know what I am talking about.

Throughout our career, our mentors, colleagues, friends and family have told us over and over that we can do it; we have the skills, the experience and the track record to achieve great things and they believe in us.  They usually have a very impressive case – we couldn’t be where we are today if we weren’t already pretty good, could we?

So what is holding us back?  Why, despite all of the facts laid out in front of us, do we sometimes avoid the hard truth rather than take action?

Why we can’t change our limiting beliefs?

Our perception of our capabilities, value, place in the world, relationship with others – is often so integrally woven into our personality and belief system that our mind and body will work to protect and reinforce our beliefs at any turn.  The beliefs we relied on through childhood to help us build relationships and as an adult to cope with our self-imposed pressures to be successful in work and in life could actually be those that are holding us back from reaching success.

Breakthrough by creating stronger, more powerful beliefs.

Breakthrough leaders create new opportunities and capacity for success by identifying and developing new beliefs that are more powerful than the disabling one.  The new beliefs build focus and confidence and can soon superseded the previous limiting beliefs.




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