Before Moving On.

Before Moving On.

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

Your belief system is built on years of fear, blame, shame, past failures, and other people’s opinions.

You’ve yet to condition your own mind and therefore believe who they said you were—and you still believe how far you’ll go in life based on their words.

Even the most naturally talented athletes require conditioning. Skipping this primer wrecks havoc on the body.

The same goes for the mind: it’ll default to its conditioning, and there’s no quick fix.

Where did this belief system come from?

Well, for starters, our brains are still programmed for survival—and we’re currently living through an evolutionary mismatch.

In original environments, our natural traits were advantageous.

Then the environment changed, and those same traits often became detrimental to survival.

Think:

• How a monkey thrives in the jungle versus how it struggles in the water,
  OR
• How human bodies were conditioned over thousands of years to digest whole foods—yet now face the overload of unnatural sugars introduced in the last 50 years. (That sweet tooth is a mismatch.)

Now, that’s a very brief introduction to why your current belief system feels so out of your hands.

Now, let’s look at what we’ll begin working to improve.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.

It’s All Your Fault.

You’ve allowed your current belief system to trick you out of your spot, forgo opportunities, dream small (so you don’t offend others or challenge yourself), and accept the belief that you have no power over your life—believing it’s everyone else’s fault.

This is where the separation of greatness begins—one’s own belief system.

So, how do you change your core belief system?

First, recognize what’s required to maintain the anti-vision you worked on form last weeks newsletter.

Your anti-vision requires you to stay exactly the same, holding on to the same limiting beliefs.

If you want to make substantial changes, keep reading.

Even without knowing exactly what you wrote down for your anti-vision, I guarantee one thing:

You must believe in yourself to prevent that anti-vision from becoming reality.

Here’s how to start:

• Self-talk: Be kind to yourself and cheer yourself on.
• Remove blockers: People, places, things, and ideas that don’t serve your vision must go.
• Make peace with your past: It happened—it isn’t happening. Stop replaying old thoughts and make peace with them.
• Challenge your fears: Why are you afraid of xyz? Are you truly afraid, or are you misinformed or unwilling to educate yourself?
• Cultivate self-confidence: Do something beneficial for your well-being in one of the four core areas of life—health, wealth, relationships, and happiness.

Let’s focus on Cultivating Self-Confidence.

Cultivating self-confidence requires reflection, positive self-talk, and actions that challenge your limiting beliefs.

The best way to build self-confidence?

Start your own challenge. (Shocker, right?)

Reflection and positive self-talk are great primers for conditioning your mind, but taking immediate action to improve yourself will skyrocket your journey to real self-confidence.

You can talk about starting a business forever, but until you actually do it, you won’t truly believe in yourself.

Without action, all you have is theory—knowledge gained from others, not proven through you.

So let’s start doing.

Doing builds self-confidence, transforms your beliefs, and molds you into the person you deeply crave to become.

Personal development is about transformation—of mind, body, heart, and spirit.

The inner you in its totality.

Today’s Assignment:

1. Write down three uplifting things you can say to yourself.
2. Remove one blocker that’s standing in the way of your vision (person, place, thing, or idea).
3. Make peace with your past by asking for forgiveness from yourself. (Yes, you have the power to do that.)
4. Think of one ideology you’re afraid of (not bugs or animals!)—like the idea that hiking is dangerous—and challenge it.
   

We’ll work on formulating your personal challenge in the next newsletter. 

Peace out, peace in.

- Spivey J.