4 Ways To Change Your Beliefs

When I lost my business, I also lost a lot of money, time, and effort invested.  I also lost a lot of confidence in myself, which I had to build back.

And aside from confidence, what I actually had to build back the most wasn’t that.  And it wasn’t my bank account.

It had to do with my beliefs.

I was run down with all of the details of running my business before.  I didn’t have a good grasp on the elements and what it was I had to do, and what I had to focus on, and what I wanted to accomplish.

I was a mess, and in my head I learned a lot from that.

But we humans are emotional creatures.  Creatures of feeling, habit, and belief.

Running, and eventually losing my business put me into routines and situations that repeatedly made me feel and see certain patterns and ways of thinking.  Again and again, I had to fight against these, which only served to make them stronger.

“Money is so hard to make.”

“It’s so difficult to run a business.”

“All the paperwork’s a bitch.”

“People are lazy and hard to manage.”

Even as deep as:

“Running a business is painful.”

“Money is a bitch.”

Coming out of my experience, I found that I held these beliefs so deeply ingrained, due to the years of being put in situations and routines that validated these beliefs.

Similar to how a path amidst a field of grass that gets constantly stepped on and travelled through gets wider and wider, so do our beliefs that we keep on experiencing, seeing, and validating.

And it takes time for the paths to change, beliefs can be hard to change as well.

 

Beliefs can be changed.

But similar to how you got there in the first place, beliefs can be cultivated, grown, set, and changed.

You can train yourself, and change your beliefs, which will then affect how you see situations, which can then affect what you can do.  Focusing on beliefs allows you to develop from the inside-out.

Beliefs are also a matter of what you’re looking for, and what you’re looking at.

Because I believed for a long time that business is hard, whenever I’d come across a business opportunity, I’d instantly be on guard, and be very, very skeptical about it.

I didn’t want to take the risk.  My beliefs kept me focused on what could go wrong and the difficulties the opportunity entailed, and not at the possible success and benefits.

Believe otherwise.

Believe what will realistically help you move forward.

Believe it ’til you become it.

But how do you begin to believe it when right now, you don’t?

 

1. Read, Watch, and Listen

Read, watch, and listen to what speaks about, shows, teaches, and exhibits what you believe in.  Watch videos about somebody teaching the benefits of that belief, and the practices associated with it.  Read books that champion what you want to believe in.

What you take in has an effect on what you put out.  The more you take in material that teaches and believes in that which you want to believe in, you are slowly teaching yourself to believe in that as well.

So if you want to believe that money is easy to earn, start looking for material that you can take in and experience that supports and will show you that money is easy to earn.  As well as show you how.

 

2. Be around people who believe what you want to believe.

As Jim Rohn once put it:

“You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.”

The truth is, it’s hard to teach somebody a belief.  Especially when it’s going against something that a person has felt and experienced, and not just know.

It’s easier to catch these beliefs, to see it in action in another person, living, breathing, life-changing.

Find out what they believe in, what makes them tick, what makes them different, and how they came to believe such.

You can also find groups and gatherings of like-minded people, or groups of people successful in the field you want to succeed in.  If there isn’t one, now’s your chance to make one.

 

3. Affirm yourself everyday.

What is it that you want to believe in?

And tell that to yourself, affirm yourself with that belief-statement, frequently.

Until it’s second nature. Until it gets into every inch and pore of your body, mind, heart, and soul.

What I did, and you can do too, is to create a list of short, simple belief statements that resonate with you and you want to believe in.  I put that list in my phone, and read the list aloud before I got out of bed in the morning, and before I went to sleep in the evening.

You can do it more times as well, and in any place too!  Whatever works best for you.

Other people have created a manifesto – which is essentially a list of core beliefs and non-negotiable statements that they want to live by and practice.  And they keep reading the list to themselves, and review it constantly.

 

4. Get Mentors.

Talking to a mentor, being guided by them, and being mentored by them, can go a long way in helping you change a belief.  They are there to help you talk through the foundations of your belief, and to begin to see how you can change it.

This is also similar to surrounding yourself with people who believe what you want to believe.  Interact and be around these people.

Email them, connect with them, and reach out.  Offer something valuable as well.  Offer to help them in what way you can possible.

Also, online mentors count.  People who write, video, speak about what’s important to you.  People whose lessons, sharings, and beliefs speak to you.

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Don’t forget to thank and compliment them.  They are people as well, and will want to see you succeed too!

Start Small, Get Going

Pick one belief first, and get to it.  Find out what works for you, and in time, that belief will do its work for you as well.

Believe it ’til you become it.

Get to believing.

 

Have you ever tried to change a belief?  How did it go?  Please share in the comments below!