You can be your own best friend or your own worst
enemy. It is the beliefs you have about yourself, others or situations
that moves you forward or holds you back. Your belief system creates how
you see the world and the possibilities or barriers within it. When
self-limiting beliefs create roadblocks to your success, the result can stop you
from living your best life.
A couple of months
ago I attended the W.I.S.E. Women’s
Annual Breakfast hosted by the Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce.The guest
speaker was Hank Phillippi Ryan successful author and award-winning
investigative reporter for WHDH TV Boston.
Hank told the story
of when she was writing her first book, Prime Time. She was
speaking with her mother telling her that she was unsure if she could finish
the book; she questioned if she had what it took to complete the project. Very
simply her mom replied, “You will if you want to.”
How many times have
you started a new project or was in the process of announcing a new product or
service when you stopped and began to have doubts whether or not you could pull
it off? I know that I have had those doubts creep into my mind on more than one
occasion. But I also know that Hank’s mom was 100% correct when she passed on
those words of wisdom to her daughter.
I want you to think
for a moment about the conversations you have had with yourself today. Did you
tell yourself you were phenomenal, successful and talented or did you tell
yourself you were unorganized, forgetful, and lazy?
Most of the time we don’t even
realize that the negative thoughts are playing like a tape over and over again
in our head. They have found a place in our mind so comfortable that we
accept them as the truth rather than what they really are, an unproven self-limiting
thought.
Your mind is an incredible tool that believes what you tell it,
so why not challenge the self-limiting beliefs you currently hold as
true. What if you discovered that they were not true and could finally
discard them and create true direction instead of a misguided story
line?
When you banish self-limiting thoughts, you can make significant changes
and begin to live life with joy, power and clarity. That clarity will
allow you to see things differently. It is a wonderful experience to be
free of those negative beliefs and to make room for positive thoughts that move
your forward!
As a business coach, I hear these negative beliefs from my clients all
the time. We work through them by having them challenge their thinking and
replace them with a new belief that is true or truer than the original.
Remember, by challenging those negative thoughts you are now free to
replace it with thoughts that empower you and move you forward into the
business and life that you want. 
Maureen
Campaiola is President of DARE To Be Phenomenal. As
an accomplished business coach, author, speaker and entrepreneur Maureen spends
her time in the trenches working on solving the unique problems of women
business owners and entrepreneurs. Maureen can always be counted on to deliver smart,
innovative solutions to turn a hectic
and draining business into a thriving, highly lucrative, smooth running, money
making reality. To learn more visit:
www.daretobephenomenal.com
or email: maureen@daretobephenomenal.com
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