"If I have the belief that I can do it,
I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it,
even if I may not have it in the beginning."
- Mahatma Gandhi
What usually keeps most people from what they truly want in life is the story they tell themselves. Why it won't happen for them. Why they can't have what they want and why it hasn't happened yet.
Most of the time the story isn't true and it usually creates unnecessary suffering, anxiety and fear.
The story got to change. Change your story, change your life. Suffering, anxiety and fear doesn't come from what is actually happening or happened. Suffering is the perception of what happened or what is happening.
What makes us continue to suffer is our own beliefs. Our own story that we are constantly telling ourselves.
Have you ever tried to accomplish an important goal? Did you succeed the first time you tried?
If you didn't succeed the first time, did you try again? And again? And again?
How many times did you attempted to accomplish the goal before you quit?
"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."
- Wayne Dyer
What sometimes will happen after trying to accomplish something that is important to us, we don't want to feel disappointed anymore so we start developing limiting beliefs about what happened. We are now allowing the limiting beliefs to destroy our dream instead of us destroying the limiting beliefs. We have been disappointed so many times that we finally start to believe that there is no way we will be able to accomplish our goal or have our dream
Here are a few things to remember. A problem is never permanent. Everything changes. When something ends, something new will begin. After winter comes spring. It always does and it always will. If you are in the middle of winter right now, spring is around the corner. There are seasons in nature and there are seasons in life.
Maybe one area in your life isn't working right now. But just because something happened in one area of your life doesn't mean that your whole life isn't working. Focus on what is working right now. Be grateful and remember that your life isn't over just because something happened. This too shall pass.
Stop taking everything so personal. Nothing is wrong with you. Stop telling yourself that you are not good enough, too old/young, not educated enough, not pretty enough, don't have what it takes to succeed, don't have the right connections, that you always mess up or that you are not smart enough. We can always find ways to justify these beliefs. Beliefs create and beliefs destroy.
"Our beliefs determine our actions
and it's our consistent actions that will produce results."
- Billy Cox
Here is a few important questions to ask yourself...
What is this belief costing me right now?
What has this belief cost me in the past?
What might happen in the future if I don't change this belief right now?
What is the opposite belief of my old one?
What is a new belief?
What is the truth?
Time to change your beliefs and your old story.
Divorce the lies and marry the truth.
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