Strategies to Attract Success – Hot Tip 4

Have you ever decided to do something to attract success into your life, got started and then found yourself listening to that little voice inside your head that says “you can’t do this”? There is not just one little recorded message inside my head but a host of them.  They tell me things like, “others might do it but you’ll give up for sure” or “you have no idea how to do technical things and you hate that” and “losing weight is really hard”.  These are all limiting beliefs.  Things that we have grown up with, acquired from all sorts of places and ideas that we have become very accustomed to carrying around with us.  We hold them close.

For that reason they stick like glue and require tenacity and discipline to change. They absolutely get in the way of your success. You know I was recently talking with someone who said to me “that’s ok for you but I can’t read”.  Well I was amazed by this because I had shared books with this person for years so I challenged them.  It then turned to “well I can’t understand what I am reading” and again I challenged that until we discovered that this was a whole new area of literature for them.  There were unaccustomed words and new ideas to understand.  And they sure were not going to do it with those limiting beliefs of theirs.

Throughout history there are examples of breakthroughs in what people believe. For example, the four minute mile was considered impossible to break until Roger Bannister did so in 1954 (in Steve Linton, How I Made Six Figures in One Month).  He did that because he believed it could be done.  That was the beginning of the end for the four minute mile and today it is hard to believe that was ever considered a limitation.

What you believe has everything to do with being successful in your chosen field.  Your limiting beliefs will stop you achieving what you have set out to do.  You might get started and then lose confidence and faith in yourself.  Or you just might not get up to speed fast enough to finish what you have started.  Whatever, you need to replace them with positive and strong beliefs that you can do anything that you want.  You can be, do, have anything you want.

Start by listing anything that holds you back, this might be the voices in your head, ideas that you have about yourself, things that you have heard others say about what you want to do or what you hear yourself saying. Write them all down and then write down a new and positive belief to replace them.  Use this list to choose a couple at a time to work with.  Every day, write and say out loud your new belief, talk about it often, think about it often and watch for the time that you believe it is true for you.  Well done, you have done it!  Now, keep adding to your list in a regular basis, keep working with a new set from your list and see how successful you can be.  Celebrate, be happy and have fun.