Ann Rusnak

How Limiting Beliefs Surprisingly Affect The Quality of Your Life

We all carry around numerous limiting beliefs. They profoundly affect your life in so many ways, and none of them are good and will keep you from reaching your full potential.

Your beliefs about yourself and your life have more power over your existence than you can imagine. Personal ideas and values you’ve held for a long time can block the way toward a life you desire.

You’re probably familiar with the idea of how limiting beliefs prevent the success you desire. But, were you aware of how they also create a negative impact in other areas in your life?

5 Ways Limiting Beliefs Affect the Quality of Your Life

Limiting beliefs spoil your experience of living.

You will do fewer things over the course of your life when you’re constricted by your limiting beliefs.

Close your eyes and imagine how much your life would be fuller, richer without them.
What beliefs did you identify that kept you from the scenario you just imagined
Rewrite those limiting beliefs as a empowering statements

You unintentionally harm those around you.

They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You affect others, including friends, with your limiting beliefs by sharing your misinformed advice. Even worse, you’ll likely teach your children false ideas that limit them. Limiting beliefs, the gift that keeps on giving, generation after generation. Is this the type of inheritance you want to pass down?

What beliefs do find yourself repeating to your children that your parents told you?
Examples: Money does not grow on trees. You got to work hard for success. No rest for the wicked. Money doesn’t buy happiness.
Start paying attention to what family motto’s you’re repeating.

You will do fewer things over the course of your life when you’re constricted by your limiting beliefs.

You’ll be ineffective.

Limiting beliefs cause you to get off track and look for alternative path, if you look for one at all. Even though you may be on the best route to achieving what you want, your beliefs can convince you otherwise. You spend a lot of time, even years, following a less direct path in an effort to follow your false beliefs. You will save some time, grief and frustration by dealing with your limiting belief instead.

Get very clear on what you want and focus on the outcome
Trust your intuition, it knows the right actions to take and don’t give into the belief that want to override it.
Take small steps in building the trust to follow your intuition

You fail to grow fully as a human being.

View your life with the purpose of eliminating your limiting beliefs and experiencing everything in the world that appeals to you.

If you only did those 2 actions, what kind of life would you have lived over the course of your lifetime?
Write out a vision for your life with no limitations. Let your imagination go.
Are you on that path right now?

Sabotaging your business profits and marketing efforts

People often start a business in hopes of living the life of their dreams. You bring those same beliefs into your business and they will profoundly influence the results you achieve for your efforts.

This is why working harder can leave you feeling stuck no matter what you do.
Your beliefs have you working against yourself.

Good news! You can eliminate your limiting beliefs and replace them with beliefs that empower you.

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Make replacing those beliefs fun by focusing on how your new empowering belief will make your life easier and enable you to enjoy the success you deserve and desire.

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How to Visualize the Things You Want

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How to Visualize the Things You Want

How can you visualize the goals you want to happen? Visualization can move you deeper into your own inner power. The place where you see greater clarity to create your desired life.

You’ll find visualization one of the most powerful tools for attracting what you want. Yet few people know how to properly visualize effectively. With the right technique you can begin to see outstanding results in successfully attracting what you want, if you fully apply what you learn.

Understand you visualize all the time. You may not be aware of it but you constantly conjure up images in your mind. When you speak on the telephone to someone, your mind tries to see what they tell you. You also visualize when you are deep in thought.

When you worry about paying your debt or worry if you’ll experience the life you want, visualization still occurs. Visualizing while attaching the emotions of worry, doubt, fear and anxiety, is where people go terribly wrong.

The hard part of using the creative force of visualization for a positive result happens while experiencing the opposite of what you want. Often your belief system about yourself doesn’t align with your desired money income.

Understand The Most Effective Way To Visualize.

Can you remember the last you found yourself in deep thought and what it felt like? A real deep thought where you found yourself lost inside yourself? Totally unaware of anyone or anything around you.

The visualizations you experienced in those moments probably felt very real. The real power of visualization resides in those moments.

When people ask how do I visualize the things I want, I tell them the same way you visualize the things that you don’t want. When you see yourself feeling anxious and fearful you lock yourself away in your inner mind with those images. You lose sight of other possibilities. Also if it is something that happened to you, then you recreate the incident in full details with all your emotions all over again.

Visualization Away Your Money Belief Hang Ups

Believe me, I know it’s hard to visualize happy thoughts when you can’t pay the bills. I reached a point where our money situation wouldn’t approve no matter what I did or what the income level. I hate to admit this, but I contemplated suicide again when I felt I was doomed with a life of eternal money problems.

I met somebody on Facebook who made me aware of how my relationship around money blocked my financial goals. She shared how using very powerful and emotional visualization techniques could turn around all money hang ups and non-serving beliefs.

Seeing all those money hurts, negative money messages, and limiting money beliefs visually as a monster allowed me to visualize his destruction. This technique worked immediately. Much quicker than decades of therapy, attending classes, reading books, coaching, etc. to overcome my money problem.

My relationship with money transformed and two years later, we’re one bill short of being debt-free, paid off our home… and that was just the beginning. (I share more details in my Money Story)

Visualization with emotions is the fastest way to replace negative and limiting beliefs or create them.

Emotion With Your Visualization Makes Them Effective.

Immerse yourself with full positive emotions when you visualize the things you want. Many thoughts may come to distract you, acknowledge them and just redirect your mind to what you want. Your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between real and unreal. Eventually, it will reprogram itself to focus on your wants.

If you experience difficulty, try different tools and techniques to greatly empower your ability to visualize. Don’t be hard on yourself. It took me a while to master what works best for me.

Visualization with emotions is the fastest way to replace negative and limiting beliefs or create them. The visualization of my money monster represented all my negative messages from my parents. But first I needed to identify those messages and beliefs.

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The beliefs you hold about yourself can keep you stuck and prevent you from achieving what you desire. Begin by identifying and changing your limiting beliefs. New beliefs are easy to install using the FREE “7 Steps to Expelling Your Limiting Belief Cheat Sheet.”.

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Mind Power Secrets – A Different Perspective on The Secret

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Perhaps you’re familiar with the book, The Secret. If you’ve tried the book’s recommendations, but didn’t have great results, that doesn’t mean that the book is without merit. To benefit from it, it’s important to understand what it actually provides you.

Who “The Secret” Automatically Works For:

Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to win all the time? Whether they’re vying for a promotion or competing in the weight loss challenge at work, they always seem to come out ahead. For these people, The Secret works great automatically. Why is this?

These people are very good at taking action and don’t have a lot of mental garbage in their way. Mere visualization is enough to get them charging full-steam ahead, and they can’t be stopped once they start.

How “The Secret” Works For the Rest of Us:

If you don’t fall into the “automatic” category above, you may want to take some extra steps to enable the strategies in The Secret work for you.

Imagine you decide you want to lose 50 lbs. When you think about losing that weight, you’re probably torn. On the one hand, it would be great to be so much lighter. You know you’d look better and feel better. You’re sure you’d be healthier too.

Does that sound like you? If so, you’re not alone. Most of us go through this inner conflict when contemplating making major changes.

If your goal doesn’t make you feel 100% positive, you’ll have challenges achieving it without a tremendous amount of motivation and willpower.

So your strategy should start with identifying your beliefs that are stopping you and work on replacing them with thoughts that better serve you. This will help you clarify your goal into one that is 100% in line with what you really want.

Identify your beliefs that are stopping you and work on replacing them with thoughts that better serve you.

You can use visualizing as a tool with this step, too. Keep tweaking your goal until you feel great – through and through – when you imagine it. Then you’ll be ready to take advantage of the power of The Secret.

Make The Secret Work for You

Outside of The Secret, one common exercise you may have heard of is manifesting a blue feather. You’re supposed to simply go about your day with the intention of bringing a blue feather into your life within 48 hours to a week, depending on who gives you the exercise.

This is interesting for a couple of reasons.

Have you ever purchased a car, and then noticed that car everywhere? It never fails. You go out and buy a used Jeep Cherokee, and suddenly it’s as if the whole world has bought one too. You see them parked on your street. You notice one at every stoplight.

This is your reticular activating system (RAS) at work. Each day, you’re exposed to so many stimuli that you can’t pay attention to all of it. Your RAS decides what’s important enough to bring to your attention and what can be allowed to slide by unnoticed.

This is why you suddenly see your new car everywhere – it’s not because you created a bunch of Jeep Cherokees all over the place. The feather exercise is the same idea. If you’re focused on finding a blue feather, you’re sure to notice one when one actually comes into your life.

In the same way, abundance and the path to your other goals are already here. There’s nothing magical about it. You just pay attention.

So here is what The Secret really gives you: It focuses your attention so you can spot situations that are conducive to helping you achieve your goals. The visualizing you learn in The Secret will attune your mind to moving you toward your goal – or manifesting your desires.

Then, however, your responsibility is to follow through on those opportunities. Being 100% aligned with your subconscious and goal helps you follow through with conviction.

With a little practice, you will work magic in your life. And your well-deserved dreams will be at your fingertips.

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Understanding the Secrets of Your Subconscious Mind

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Let’s get going on a fascinating discussion on the Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
~ Unknown

Your subconscious is very sensitive to your thoughts.

That’s why watching your thoughts is critical to changing your money mindset.

Your mind works at two levels… the conscious level and a subconscious level.

Meet Your Conscious Half

Let me explain how the conscious and subconscious mind works. This knowledge of the interaction between your conscious and subconscious will enable you, to not only change your money mindset, but to transform your whole life.

You think with your conscious and it’s the rational half of your mind. You make all your decisions with your conscious mind. It’s the part of your mind that makes your choices.

The conscious mind gathers knowledge and experience through the senses. It learns from books, conversation and experience. It reasons and forms conclusions. Thoughts generate at the conscious level and finally passes its thoughts down into the subconscious mind… What you habitually think about all day long sinks down into your subconscious.

Meet Your Subconscious Half

Your subconscious level is the cradle of your emotions and creative center in your mind. It’s also where your habits take up residence.

Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious mind; it stores all your previous life experiences your belief system, your memories, you skills, all situations you’ve been through, and all images you’ve ever seen.

Your subconscious mind runs on auto pilot and will process whatever information enters it. It’s always working. It is active night and day, whether you act upon it or not. Through ceaseless, tireless action of your subconscious mind controls all the vital functions of your body without the help of your conscious mind.

Can you imagine if you had to think about breathing, make your heart pump… thank goodness for the subconscious mind.

Your subconscious mind is far more powerful than your conscious one. When you learn how to train and use your subconscious mind, you can control your behavior, break bad habits, get rid of unwanted emotions; and fix your belief system.

How the Conscious Affects Your Subconscious

Your subconscious is subjective to your conscious mind. It takes orders your give it based on what your conscious mind believes and accepts at true.

Your subconscious mind will begin to execute an idea once it accepts the idea impressed upon it. It will not make comparisons nor does it reason or thinks things out for itself. That job belongs to the conscious mind.

It will accept what ever the conscious mind believes whether it’s true or false.

The subconscious mind learns by repetition and not by logic. It learns by the conscious mind establishing deep grooves from habitual thinking… thinking the same thoughts over and over.

The longer the subconscious mind believes something, the harder it will be to alter this belief in any way: If you have a longstanding belief, it will definitely be more difficult to alter than a recently formed one.

The longer the subconscious mind believes something, the harder it will be to alter this belief in any way.

Soothing Conflicts Between Your Conscious and Subconscious Minds

While you may want to change the way you think… your conscious mind will often reject your new thoughts because they are in conflict with your current belief system. The more ingrained the belief… the harder it will be to alter it. Your belief system resides in your subconscious.

The subconscious accepts what you really feel is true. Fortunately, the subconscious mind does not differentiate between visualizations and real situations. You can use this to your advantage and soothe things over between your two minds. Visualize your life with the new beliefs and associate genuine feelings and emotions to your new beliefs. Your subconscious more readily accepted the new thoughts because it really felt they were true.

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Do You Know the Top Excuses Obstructing Your Success?

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No matter how impossible you might think something is to accomplish, there’s someone out there getting it done anyway. Most often, excuses are a way to justify fear of failure, fear of success, or a lack of resolve. Excuses get in the way of success and living fully.

By overcoming your excuses, success becomes much more likely!

Avoid Letting These Top 5 Excuses Sabotage the Life You Desire:

I don’t have the right education. A surprising percentage of the most successful people never completed high school. It’s true that education is required to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer, but education isn’t required in many situations.

Our society places a high emphasis on education, but it’s not always necessary. Motivation and commitment are far more valuable than education in most cases. How committed are you?

I don’t have enough money. Many of those wealthy in the present were poor in the past. Some of the biggest companies were started in a one-car garage. Money certainly makes things easier, but it’s not always necessary to get started.

A lack of financial resources is a convenient excuse to stay stuck in your current situation. The world is full of money. If you don’t have enough money to move forward, find a way to acquire more.

A lack of financial resources is a convenient excuse to stay stuck in your current situation.

I don’t have enough time. With careful planning, you can find time in your schedule for your priorities. How much extra time do you need to achieve your goals?

You might need to eliminate some of the activities that aren’t as crucial to making your dreams come true, such as club meetings.
If you regularly overextend yourself by saying Yes every time someone asks you to do something, practice politely saying No until you can sometimes make that your answer.
Delegate some of your responsibilities.
Cut down on watching television. You’d be surprised how much you can get done during the time you usually spend watching shows on TV or the internet!

It’s too late to get started. Do you think life has passed you by? An 80 year-old man climbed Mount Everest successfully. People over the age of 60 have graduated from medical school. Is it really too late? It’s possible that your age or life circumstances can make success more challenging, but it’s unlikely that it’s too late.

What can you do today to take that first step?
I found myself using this excuse until I did research on people who succeed in their later life. Do the same and use their stories for inspiration.

I don’t know how to get started. There was a time when Tiger Woods didn’t know how to play golf and Warren Buffett couldn’t even spell “stock.” It might be true that you don’t know how to get started. That just means you require some education.

There’s never been a time in history when more free information was available. You can find anything you need to get started online or at the local library. And there’s no law that states you can’t sit in the bookstore all day and read to your heart’s content.
Knowledge doesn’t replace action. Repeated action will lead to mastery. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes along the way.

If you feel that success is eluding you, thoughtfully consider the possibility that you might be making excuses. You might discover that what you thought was stopping you all along was really you! Now that you know, you can get past your excuses and on the path to success.

Imagine finally discovering limiting belief behind your excuse, which keeps you from realizing your dreams!

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P.S. If you want more free training, support to grow your business and mindset mojo to attract more money, join me in our FREE Unstoppable Success Group for Women Entrepreneurs.

5 Simple Ways You Can Create a Prosperity Mindset

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A prosperity mindset encourages you to act each day to improve your life on numerous levels, such as health, wealth, love or anything else you deem important. Incorporating one will prove beneficial to you.

Following these suggestions will make easier for you to create and importantly maintain a prosperity mindset.

Strategies to Create a Prosperity Mindset

1. Study the Actions of Successful People

Learn by example. Put this suggestion high on your list. Find someone successful whom you admire and do what they do. These individuals serve as proof your dreams can come true.

Find someone who achieved the same kind of success that you desire.
Study what they did right as well as their mistakes.

Find someone successful whom you admire and do what they do.

Successful people often love to inspire others to find success. They know how abundance works and understand their success won’t deprive anybody of their desires. They set a great example of the prosperity mindset in action!

Think Positive

If you believe in yourself, you can achieve your dreams. The moment you think you can’t do something, you can’t. You can’t eliminate negative feelings 100% from your mind. However,

when negativity arises, you can shift your vibration of attraction by keeping a positive image of the big picture in your mind. Visualize how good it will feel when your outcome arrives.

Picture yourself reaching your goals and imagine how it feels.
Surround yourself with positive people.
Write prosperity affirmations.
Stay open to possibilities.

When you open yourself to new opportunities, you open up to prosperity. Stay motivated, make changes when necessary and don’t let fear block you.

Setting Goals and Action Plans

You can dream all day about where you’d like your life to go, but without a goal or an action plan, nothing will happen. Take time to think about the big picture and then draw in the lines of how you will arrive there.

Break down your goals into smaller steps.
Set manageable and achievable goals.
Stick to your plan whenever possible.

Don’t Give Up

A true passion for desire will drive you and keep you motivated. At times, you will find yourself wanting to quit. Relax. Anybody who accomplished their dreams went through the same giving up emotions.

When you talk to or study the actions of any successful person, they’ll likely tell you tales of their many failures. They will also tell you to keep going.

Realize that everyone feels like giving up, but we can’t give in to these feelings.
Keep the image of your goal in your mind.
Make changes if you need to but continue acting toward your goal.

Invest in a Mindset Coach

People with prosperity mindsets use different approaches to obtain what they want. They let THEIR definition of prosperity guide them. They all own a hungry enthusiasm for life and a positive attitude. They continue to rely on this zest for life on their journey forward.

If you feel unsure about whether you can adopt a prosperity mindset, you could always consider receiving advice from a mindset coach. They’ll help break down your problems and concerns, explore beliefs around scarcity and tailor a plan that will work for you personally.

When you implement these strategies, you’ll gain a renewed prosperity mindset to help you on your life journey.

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If you want more free training, support to grow your business and mindset mojo to attract more money, join me in our FREE Unstoppable Success Group for Women Entrepreneurs.

Did You Know This Can Destroy Your Financial Future?

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When self-talk is positive and helpful, amazing things can happen. When self-talk is negative, you make your life more challenging than necessary.

Do you ever remember hearing these statements come out of your mouth—or even in your head?

“I’ve never been good with money.”
“I hate budgets.”
“I’ll never be a 6-figure earner.”
“My market won’t pay premium prices.”

Or any other negative money statement?

Doing so, you engage in the damaging habit of negative self-talk. By telling yourself these lies, you reinforce these beliefs.

When self-talk is positive and helpful, amazing things can happen.

How Your Thoughts Affect Your Financial Well-Being

Continue telling yourself you’re not good with money, and it reinforces a belief not serving you for your good.

For example, you may tell yourself budgets won’t work so why bother, and you find yourself resisting creating one.

Convince yourself you can’t earn a 6-figure income, and you won’t.

This behavior and thinking will create a self-fulfilling prophecy. This kind of self-talk results in poor performance simply because we act as if it’s already true.

If you tell yourself you can’t earn 6-figures, you will not do the things that 6-figure business owners do.

You won’t work to grow your mailing list (“No one reads my emails anyway”),
You won’t increase your coaching rates (“It’s not like I’m some top-earning coach”),
You won’t build a brand worthy of a 6-figure income (“A beautiful brand isn’t necessary at this income level”).

By contrast, if you act and think like you earn 6-figures already, you’ll approach your business quite differently. Your confidence level will increase. You’ll present a very different brand to your prospective clients. You’ll go out of your way to connect with those who can and will afford to pay your higher rates.

How to Turn Around Negative Self Talk

Take the first step toward changing your negative self-talk by simply acknowledging you do it.

Make a list of your negative self-talk phrases and attitudes. For 24 hours, record everything you say to yourself not supporting you, regardless of whether or not you think it’s true. Here are a few examples to get you thinking:

“People won’t like me if I make lots of money.”
“I’m not good enough for that.”
“I could never do that.”
“Things will never get better.
“I can’t afford that.”

Make a note of the ones that come up most often for you and identify their origin if you can.

Change your self-talk by rephrasing. The next time you catch yourself saying “I’m no good with money,” take a minute to recall 5 instances where you were good with money. Maybe you paid off your credit cards or saved for a house or built an emergency fund. Rephrase your self-talk to, “I’m good with money.”

If you feel resistance, say “I decide I’m good with money.” This quiets your inner critic.

Just as negative self-talk becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, so does positive self-talk. Reframe your thinking, and your business finances will certainly improve.

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Your beliefs shape your results and your future. If you’re feeling suck with achieving what you desire, begin by dealing with your limiting beliefs. New beliefs are easy to install using the FREE “7 Steps to Expelling Your Limiting Beliefs Cheat Sheet.” Click Here to Claim it Now