3 Limiting Beliefs Killing Your Chances Of Living An Abundant Life pedro-campos.com/blog-beliefs-chances-abundant-life/ pedrocampos
May 23, 2018
What you`re about is read is a list of powerful yet limiting beliefs that are probably blocking you from creating an abundant and meaningful life or what I call a super life. A life with no limitations and restrictions. Let`s face it… who wants to live by some else’s standards and rules? That`s what happens to most people… A big part of the things we were tough in school or by our parents don`t mean much when trying to create an abundant life for ourselves, our family and our community and you`ll understand why in just a few seconds… Below is a list of what many extremely successful individuals consider as limiting beliefs holding back those who are seeking for a super life, not a comfortable one but a life where you have freedom of choices and you`re a winner in every area of it. Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale
#1 Negative Associations With Money This is the bogeyman! Nobody likes to talk about money, it seems like a taboo topic in our society. Probably, that`s the reason why most don`t have any or struggle to get it. Look, assuming that you deliver great value to the marketplace, chances are that you`ll be better positioned to become wealthy compared to most people. The problem is that most carry limiting beliefs about money, influenced by parents, teachers, the media or politicians. 1/5
See if these sentences are familiar: “money can`t buy happiness, rich people are greedy, just be grateful because you have more than most, save for a rainy day, success isn`t everything” or my favorite, I always laugh when people say this.. “there`s never enough money to go around.” Those who give you advice around the fact that money is not important are the same people trying to make sense of why they don`t have any and why they have given up on their future and their goals. In fact, the majority of these “experts” that advise you, die in their 20`s and it`s official when they`re 80! Is this message tough? It probably is, but you got to ask yourself why you don`t like the message. Maybe you`re reading this for a reason. I don`t know… It`s very difficult to create real success by running a company for example when you`re stuck with the belief that rich people are greedy or selfish because at the end of the day you don`t want to be a bad person, so to support that belief, either you play it small by not investing in the business, being scared about money at every second of every day or you make truckloads of it and you get rid of it as fast as possible. You`ve been brainwashed, admit it. How can you make sense of having just enough to get by? But that`s what the media, most politicians and schools promote. Do you want to know why? If you were a politician, would you want to convince the 3% or the 97%? Exactly!
#2 Success Scares The Hell Out Of You That`s right, most people are not afraid of failure, they`re afraid of success. They are worried about what other people will say or think when they reach a certain level of success in their lives, whether that is financial, physical or spiritual… and the truth is that for these people, the higher they climb the more criticism they’ll get. 2/5
The funny part is that sometimes people give up right before having their biggest breakthrough, just because they can`t handle a couple of haters. You need haters, a lot. Get you a bunch of them. I`m actually hoping to get some just by posting this article. Bring it on! Look, others aren`t thinking about you, get over it. People are thinking about what you`re thinking about them. And even if they were thinking about you, do they pay your bills or contribute to your happiness in life? You get influenced by those around you that are trying to make sense, much like the money beliefs, of why they have given up on their ability to create prosperity. Pay close attention to this… When someone says: “you`re thinking too big, can`t you just be satisfied?” – they are talking to themselves, not to you, trying to justify their average thinking and why they settled down and gave up on their dreams. You`ll see how this works in detail in point number 3. The fact of you being successful reminds them of how they weren’t able to do the same. Let`s keep it real here, if you can`t stand criticism, probably you`re having a miserable and boring life. It`s the same thing with rejection. Look around, the world we live in is filled with situations where people say no to you, not once, not twice, probably you`ve been rejected multiple times, maybe by the person you were looking to date, your ideal business partner or that special customer, yeah that one, you wanted to acquire. And rejection is just a fancy word to describe the fact of you not having your pipeline full enough. I`m using a sales term right now, but it applies to all areas of life if you think about it. At the end of the day, everything in life is a sale and anything you get out of it is a commission.
#3 Always Believing You Know It All You probably have a friend or two that thinks they`re the hotshot, don`t you? 3/5
If “I got it� comes out of your mouth, realize it`s a warning sign that you`re making the biggest mistake when trying to create an abundant life. Saying to yourself that you know it all is the killer of your personal growth, it cuts off every aspiration of you moving forward. Every chance you got of achieving a life of freedom is reduced to what you think you know. How little are we thinking now? Just relying on what you learned 10 or 15 years ago in school? Come on! Extremely successful individuals agree that the amount of money you make is connected to how big of a person you are. The same thing happens when we`re talking about problems. You should never decrease the size of your problems, get you some big ones! Instead, try to increase the size of you and as time goes by there will be obstacles you won`t even consider as problems because now you have grown as a person. The issue is that nobody finishes a marathon by just starting, it`s the process of taking it step by step that will get you to the finish line if there is even one, which I don`t believe. I do believe that human beings have unlimited potential and that our goal in life should always be to chase the best version of ourselves. The most successful characters on the planet invest millions of dollars in their personal development, improving their skills, their talents and that`s why they never stop growing and earning! I get it, it`s easier to say that you don`t like reading or that you rather go to the football game instead of attending a seminar or reading a business book, but understand that those excuses are holding you back. But don`t worry, after all not everybody is willing to do whatever it takes to create a super life. And don`t think that personal growth is just reading a few books, attending one or two seminars and you`re done. If you want to create prosperity, you must fully commit and become obsessed with your personal development.
But It Doesn`t Start With Your Beliefs
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What if I told you that you could control every outcome of your life just by influencing the way you think? That`s right… it can`t be that simple! Well, it is. By controlling your thoughts and deciding where you want to put your focus, that will eventually determine your actions. It all starts with the way you think and those thoughts will lead you to believing in something. Your subconscious mind is a powerful animal. It will always try to prove you right. Remember that saying? “Either you think you can or you think you can`t, both ways, you`re right.” If you believe that rich people are evil, for example, your mind will prove you right and you probably won`t be financially free ever, because you don`t want to be a bad person. See how that works? Even if you get a lucky strike on the lottery, chances are that you are gonna blow it all to prove your initial belief right. If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you. Louise Hay You`ve probably realized that the intention of exposing these limiting beliefs is to create awareness around the fact that people get stuck in some kind of lifestyle they think it`s a success by itself. Well, the truth is that most people never even get close to what they can achieve in life. Many people with potential get trapped in old beliefs that only allow them to create average lives. I`m assuming that your goal is to create an extraordinary life otherwise you wouldn’t even consider reading this article. See if you have any of the ones mentioned and don`t let them stop you from following the vision you`ve always had for yourself. Don`t fall into the average trap, the conventual thinking, the popular road because as someone once said… “conventional wisdom is almost always wrong!” I`m grateful you stopped by and took the time to educate yourself, take the information, act on it and let me know what were the takeaways from the reading. Take care and wish you a very happy and prosperous life!
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