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Get out of Your Own Way/Stop Limiting Yourself – Part 2
In part 1 of this blog, we looked at limiting beliefs and what they are. In part 2, we discuss how to identify and address your limiting beliefs so that they stop holding you back from the success you desire.
Identifying limiting beliefs
Before you can address your limiting beliefs, first you need to identify them. One way to identify any limiting beliefs is to look at your behaviour because your beliefs are reflected in your behaviour. Here are some examples of limiting beliefs and how they could be reflected in various behaviours. Please keep in mind that there are many possibilities and these are simply examples which may or may not be relevant to you.
· being a perfectionist can have the business owner rework things so often that they end up putting off the tasks for so long, sometimes totally missing the deadline. Alternatively, it can lead to unrealistic expectations of themselves or staff, so never being happy with their own or others' performance. It may even result in a hesitation to delegate, outsource, set up alliances, etc.
· fear of failure can have the business owner pursue activities and business strategies which lead to a series of failures as a result of the fear ie. the fear becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.
· fear of being judged by others can have the business owner avoiding doing things that have them and their business stand out from the crowd, can have them avoid expressing themselves easily, can have them avoid giving presentations, networking effectively, etc
· a limiting belief of not trusting themself can have the business owner also procrastinate about making decisions, can have them be less trusting of staff and other people, can have them questioning their own decisions, etc
Another way to identify if you have any limiting beliefs is to consider all aspects of your business (eg. strategy, finance, marketing, sales, operations, people/HR, etc) and look for any recurring patterns that you are unhappy with. For example, do you find yourself avoiding sales and marketing? If so, what are your beliefs around sales and marketing and your ability to do these effectively? For example, one business owner I worked with believed that all salespeople are sleazy and therefore avoided selling, which had a hugely detrimental impact on his cash flow.
Do you have a pattern of putting off calling late paying customers? What are your beliefs around doing that? Another business owner refused to chase up late customer payments which severely affected the cash flow in her business, because of her limiting beliefs of “I don’t want confrontation” and “I don’t want people to judge and dislike me”.
Addressing limiting beliefs
Once you have identified your own limiting beliefs, it is important to address these so that they stop limiting your business success. Because our beliefs are stored at the unconscious level, the most effective way to address them in a permanent way is by working with the unconscious mind. This way the limiting beliefs will stop limiting your success once and for all, and you will be freer to create the business success that you desire.
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