“All too often we’re filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We’re filled with doubt. We’re filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.” ~ Jack Canfield.
As an online business owner and entrepreneur, my overarching goal is to help my clients succeed. From prioritizing their goals, creating a plan of action, to helping them get through the days when they simply don’t believe what they are doing is working. Being an entrepreneur takes a few things one is discipline, and the other is an ongoing regimen of believing in yourself and how you can help others.We all have limiting beliefs – those thoughts that aren’t true, but always seem to invade and interfere with our success.
What are your limiting beliefs?
“It’s impossible.”
“I don’t have enough time (money, skill, help, etc.).”
“I must do what is expected of me.” “No one else believes I can do it.” Sound familiar?
Self-sabotage occurs when you give in to your limiting beliefs. These beliefs exist to protect the ego from getting hurt – physically, emotionally, and intellectually – it wants to keep you in your comfort zone. The problem with being in the comfort zone is that’s not where success lives.
There are three common beliefs that keep us from pursuing what matters most in our lives and sabotages our success. The good news about these limiting beliefs is that there is a truth that lies beneath each of them.
- Limiting Belief: It’s too hard. It’s too big. It’ll take too long.
Truth: Achieving your dreams doesn’t happen overnight. The four keys here are to plan, commit, take action, and don’t quit. Break the big project, goal, or dream into manageable steps; commit to the cause; take action each day toward your goal; and never give up despite the obstacles you encounter. - Limiting Belief: It has to be perfect. You tell yourself, “If it’s not ‘perfect’, it’s not good enough. No one will want what I have to offer, and I’ll be a failure.”
Truth: Your goal may take a little longer than planned, or it may not look the way you originally planned. But that doesn’t make your goal (or you) a failure. Perfection is the enemy of good. Not everyone is going to achieve fame let alone perfection. Choose completion over perfection. - Limiting Belief: It’s too late for me.
Truth: Feel like time’s passed you by? Starting later in life has its advantages.
You have more experience, more realistic expectations, more resources, more clarity around what you want, and more patience. You have a lot more than less. Many of the well-known successes of our time were no spring chickens when they started. Sam Walton was 44 when he founded the first Walmart. Henry Ford was 45 when he created the first Model T., and Julia Childs was 50 when she wrote her first cookbook.
We all have limiting beliefs. The way to conquer your self-sabotaging thoughts is to replace them with positive ones. It takes time, but with practice, you may just discover that your potential is limitless.
What self-sabotaging thoughts are holding you back, and how can you replace them with truthful thoughts that inspire you to take action?
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