How Do Self Limiting Beliefs Affect Success
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
What Are Self Limiting Beliefs?
Self limiting beliefs are when you tell yourself that you can’t do something or you can only do a little bit of it without taking time to see if you actually can achieve a successful outcome. If you believe you can’t do something than you have created your own self limiting beliefs. For example, if you say you can’t do pull ups
Self Limiting Beliefs
and you go to the pull up bar, you have set yourself up for failure and given yourself an excuse for not doing it. It may well be that if you believe you can and you get to the bar you may not do even one pull up. That is fine. You can do one pull up, just not today, not without taking action and practice. If you try a couple of times a day to do a pull up you will eventually succeed. Turn your self limiting beliefs into a positive belief by telling yourself that you can do it and you will learn and take action to do it and you will be successful.
How Do Self Limiting Beliefs Affect Success?
In order to be successful at something you have to believe you are capable of obtaining it. If you don’t you will always struggle and that will show through limiting your success. We were all born with the same capabilities but our self limiting beliefs of ourselves brought us to where we are today.
When I was a child I was told I could do or be anything I wanted to be and I totally believed that. I was extremely pigeoned toed and my parents took me to get corrective shoes. My mother looked at them, got teary eyed and said that she couldn’t do that to me 
A few years later, I realized that other kids had an issue with my feet turning inward and I decided to get rid of the issue and fix my feet. For the next few months whenever I walked I watched my feet and corrected every step. Soon I could pay attention to how I was walking without looking down. It didn’t take that long and my feet are now straight as can be. If I happen to turn them in, it feels very strange. This success came about because I didn’t have any self limiting beliefs that told me I couldn’t do it.
No matter what you are trying to succeed at, if you say you can’t do it you will be right. However, if you remove the self limiting beliefs and say you can do it, you will be right too. This doesn’t mean that you can do it right away but if you work at it on a regular basis you will be successful.
My current self limiting belief is that I look horrible and talk worse in videos. That is true today but I am going to do them and keep doing them until they become second nature to me. I will post them on YouTube and in my blog when appropriate. You can count on that because I know that with time and practice that I can do it.
How To Overcome Self Limiting Beliefs?
A lot of people live lives that are unfulfilling. They go to work in a job they don’t like, do errands and then relax for a while before going to bed. The next day they do the same thing. It becomes a comfort zone and a rut all at the same time. Does this sound like you? If so it is because you can’t see what the future may hold because you are stuck where you are right now. So let yourself envision a different future. One that will set you free of any rut you are in now. Then tell yourself that it is possible. If you want it bad enough and take consistent action toward it, you can create that future. You need to invest some time everyday to learn and grow. Stop thinking about having and pursuing and turn your attention on becoming.
I am learning to be a marketer and a blogger. I’ve learned a lot but I have more to learn and grow. I am already a success to a point but my vision is much larger. Just like straightening my feet, I am aware of where I am going and I take action everyday to get there.
Do dream big and follow your dream. Your success is up to you and you alone. Push away the thoughts that you can’t do it and take action to learn and practice how to do it. You will eliminate your self limiting beliefs and become successful!
To your success!!
Mary Riley
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