Mindset Secrets

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.

BONUS DOWNLOAD: Want a step-by-step guide to removing limiting beliefs?

Download the “7 Steps to Banish Limiting Beliefs” Worksheet

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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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

Break Through Your Imposed Limits to Reach Greater Success

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Along any self-growth journey, it eventually becomes obvious the biggest enemy getting in your way is yourself. Between your limiting beliefs and negative habits, it all comes down to one person… you.

We often ask too little of ourselves and doubt our ability to succeed in the future based on our previous struggles.

These techniques will help you break through your limits:

Decide what you will no longer tolerate from yourself. You put up with a lot from yourself. The late-night snacking, procrastination, and making excuses for not making it to the gym regularly may be common scenarios in your life. When you accept poor behavior from yourself, you’ll get poor results.

Make a list of all the things you will no longer do or accept. If you want to rise to a new level in any endeavor, it’s important to eliminate attitudes and behaviors that get in the way.

Define your goals. Make your goals bigger and better and stick with them. Raise your standards. Most people set goals that are too small. Set bigger goals and then figure out how to attain them quicker. With a good enough plan and hard work, you can accomplish a lot quickly.

Define the five most important behaviors for your future

Define the five most important behaviors for your future. What are five things you can do each day that will transform your life? Look to your goals for guidance. A few examples:

Cold call or email at least 10 potential clients each day.
Eat less than 2500 calories.
Perform 50 pushups.
Talk to one new person that could either be a potential friend or lover.
Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the piano
The things you do each day matter. If you look at your average current day, it’s easy to see why your life is exactly as it is. What can you do each day that will guarantee that next year will be amazing?

Find a quality mentor. Good mentors can be hard to find, but it’s one of the best ways to rise above yourself.

You think you know your weak spots, but you only see some of them. Your ego hides them from you.
There may also be a few things you think you’re good at but aren’t.
A mentor will be able to see the truth.

Evaluate each day in writing. At the end of the day, make a list of the things you did right and those things you could do better. Ask yourself how could you do better and promise to do more of the good things going forward.
Learn. Determine the three things you need to learn this year to have a great year. Where are you lacking? What skills do you want to develop or strengthen? You should always be learning something, but ensure you’re learning what will matter the most.
Enhance your ability to focus. The lack of focus makes it harder to, much of anything. Try using a timer, learn to meditate, make lists, or try another method. The ability to focus comes with practice.

You know you can do better than you have been. We’d like to think there’s a secret to succeeding – a quick trick that will suddenly make our dreams come true. But the truth is uglier. It’s necessary to dig into your weaknesses and get to work on yourself.

Raise your expectations and personal standards. Evaluate yourself daily and find a mentor for help. You are your greatest enemy. Breakthrough your self-imposed limits and success will be yours!

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Do You Desire to Follow Your Heart and Trust Your Instincts?

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Do You Desire to Follow Your Heart and Trust Your Instincts?

Giving a talk last week, somebody in the audience asked what steps I took to reach the point where my life is awesome.

Good question on his part… First step was taking responsibility for my life. Not easy and very scary.

Secondly was learning to trust my instincts and follow my heart.

Do you struggle with being able to follow your heart and trusting your instincts?

I started reflecting back on circumstances where I didn’t follow my instincts. That little tiny voice in my gut. (Guiding Universal Thought™) Guess what? My instincts were right. How about you? How often are your instincts usually right?

Learning To Trusting Your Instincts

There are several good techniques that can help you better grasp the process of trusting your instincts. Some of these common solutions might work for you.

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These strategies can help you trust your instincts:

Stick with your gut feeling. Following your heart and instincts are very similar things. It’s important to go with your initial thoughts. This is because it’s likely a thought that’s coming from within and not something you’ve had time to think endlessly about. You’d be amazed with how many times you just end up going with your initial feeling anyway.
Write down your thoughts. It might help to engage in a free writing session. Pick up a pen and just write your thoughts down as they come. Try not to put the pen down. It doesn’t matter if you start writing some things that don’t pertain to the subject. After reading your notes, you’ll probably get a better idea about your base instincts.
Keep yourself in a relaxed state. It’s always best to do your thinking while you’re relaxed. That way you know you’re not making any strained decisions. Do what you can to relax yourself, whether it’s deep breathing, a warm bath, or meditation techniques.
Avoid changing your mind unless there’s a valid reason. Occasionally, you’ll know that your initial instinct was wrong. In this case, if you have a valid reason to change your mind, you should do so. However, if you don’t have a good reason, just follow through with your initial thoughts.

Now Start Following Your Heart

Sometimes following your heart instead of your mind can seem like the “weak” thing to do. This is not the case; following your heart is following the core of your beliefs… your Magical Essence… and is usually the best thing you can do.

When you follow your heart, you’re usually happy. Happy people enjoy their lives and are usually healthier in the long run. If you want to be happy, you must learn how to follow your heart.

If you want to be happy, you must learn how to follow your heart.

You can begin following your heart by keeping these tips in mind:

Trust your subconscious thoughts. It can be tough to stay in touch with your subconscious thoughts, but they make up your initial instincts and they’re close to your heart. You know that the truth will be revealed to you if you give yourself enough time. Learn to trust yourself.
Go with what feels right. Don’t be afraid to take action towards the things that feel right. If something feels off to you, you can stop and explore the reasons why. It always starts with a feeling. Go in the direction of your positive feelings.
Avoid over thinking. Sometimes your mind can get away from you and start cycling through negative thoughts. Take deep breaths and get back into a positive mindset so that you can see your true path more clearly.

You’ll find that most of the time your instincts and heart are correct in the end. Even when they’re not, banish discouragement and keep practicing. Maintain a positive attitude and keep trying and soon your heart and instincts will be your guiding lights.

What are your thoughts on following your heart and trusting your instincts? Share them below.

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