Change Your Beliefs

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In every case, if you want to change your performance and your results in any area of your life, you have to change your self-concept-or your beliefs about yourself — for that area. Fortunately, your beliefs are largely subjective. They are not always based on facts. Instead, they are largely on information you have taken in and accepted as true, sometimes with very little evidence or proof. The very worst beliefs you can have are self-limiting beliefs of any kind. These are beliefs about yourself that cause you to feel some-how limited or deficient in a particular area. These beliefs are seldom true, but if you accept them as valid estimates of your ability, they become true for you, exactly as if they were correct. The starting point of unlocking your potential, and accomplishing more than you have ever have before, is for you to challenge your self-limiting beliefs. You begin this process of freeing yourself from self-limiting beliefs by imagine that, whatever they are, they are completely untrue. Imagine for the moment that you have no limitations on you abilities at all. Imagine that you could be, do or have anything you really wanted in life. Imagine that your potential is unlimited in any way.

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

For example, imagine that you could be earning twice as much as you are earning today. Imagine that you could be living in a bigger house, driving a better car, and enjoying a more expensive lifestyle. Imagine that you have the ability to do one of the top people in your field. Imagine that you are one of the most popular, powerful, and persuasive personalities in your social and business world. Imagine that you are calm, confident, and unafraid of anything. Imagine that you could set and achieve any goal you put your mind to. This is how you begin changing your thinking and changing your life. The starting point of eliminating your fears, and releasing your potential, is to reprogram your mental hard drive with new, positive, constructive, and courageous beliefs about yourself and your future. Throughout this book, you will learn how to do this.

Three Parts Of Your Self-Concept

Your self-concept has three parts, like pie divided into three wedges. Each is linked with each of the others. All three elements together make up your personality. They largely determine what you think feel, and do, and everything that happens to you. Your self-ideal is the first part of your personality and your self-concept. Your self-ideal is made up of all of your hopes, dreams, visions, and ideals. Your self-ideal is composed of the virtues, values, and quantities that you most admire in yourself and others. Your self-ideal is the person you would most like to become, if you could be a perfect person in every way. These ideals guide and shape your behavior. Great men and women, leaders, and people of character are very clear about their values, visions, and ideals. They know who they are and what they believe in. They set high standards. They are men and women that others can look up to and depend on. They are definite and distinct in their interactions with others. In everything they do, they strive to live up to their ideals.

According to William James a great philosopher. Read and comment, follow thank you!