EPT- 1. Being Happy - be more happy
- 2. Earn your happiness - when faced with adversity, revel in the power of earning the passage
define: limiting belief
An idea that holds you back.
Short and simple.
If you've ever seen someone who's really confident in themselves, it sort of looks like cockiness or swagger. They have this really strong aura about themselves and in the things they do because they're so confident in the things they do. You may not agree with their decisions, but you can appreciate how strongly they believe in their own decisions.
The idea of not having limiting beliefs is to have complete faith in yourself and your ability to do what's right in the situation. The idea being, you are always right unless you realize you are wrong. And there is nothing wrong with being wrong. It only becomes wrong when you don't realize that you are, or could be wrong.
In my experience, saying or doing something wrong usually breaks down into 2 categories: you failed to realize you could be wrong, or someone failed to convey to you how you were wrong. [1]
Not having limiting beliefs places you somewhere in the ideal center of the two. What you try to prevent are ideas that hinder progress. For example, when you are working, often you become conflicted between several thoughts, and that stalls your progress. By applying this, you simply trust yourself, and make a decision. Having that confidence in yourself to choose whether to step aside for someone else to step up, or ask for more advice, or make your own decision is something you can only do if you are confident with enough understanding of your own limits. Applicable to a lot of areas in life I feel, but one of the most important if you wish for success.
On the other side of the line, when you are wrong, you cannot cling on to your false beliefs. There's an everlasting, constant self-evaluation of your beliefs, your ideals, your goals in order to make sure you're on track. Sometimes you won't realize they're wrong until you are ready to realize something important, and you finally "awaken". And that's fine. But you can do the best with what you have now. It involves mutually finding the middle ground with someone when you think he or she's wrong, or if he or she thinks you're wrong. What holds you back is the inability to admit that you may be wrong, or that you both can't be correct, at the very least in your own worlds. No limiting beliefs.
Confidence, without the cockiness, and self-reflection, without the indecision. Find your limiting beliefs and squash them.[2]
- [1]The third, independent wrongness is something that you grow and nurture over time, and probably something I'll speak of later.
- [2]If you're working at like, NASA or something that you have proven yourself already, continue being awesome. This is for the rest of us. :p
