Friday's Rocket Fuel: What Limiting Beliefs Are Blocking Your Success
By Larry Boyer, Career Coach & Personal Branding Strategist
Are you achieving the career success you want? This weekend think about what is holding you back from the success you want and write it all down. Look through your list and see which are based on something that you believe to necessary but for which there is no real hard reason for it to be true. For example:
- I'm too old to go back to school
- I'm too shy
- She/He would never go out with someone like me
- You need to have a PhD to do that job
- I'm not good at ...
These are all examples of Limiting Beliefs. What is a Limiting Belief?
Limiting Beliefs are ideas or principles that you accept about life, yourself, the world, or others that limit or hold you back in some way.
So, of the success blocks you wrote down, which are the limiting beliefs? Circle them. What success empowering belief can you replace that limiting belief with?