Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Is Your Belief System Congruent with Your Business Goals?

Your Unconscious Mind is steering the ship! Using the iceberg analogy, our Conscious Mind is only the tip that is visible above the water line. This Unconscious level controls our life-view, decisions, our health, wealth and general well-being. It determines how we show up in both our personal and professional lives.

Much of our Belief System resides in our Unconscious Mind. It is built on our evaluation and perception of events and experiences in our lives. If we re-evaluate or change our perspectives (thoughts), our beliefs will change. We create our own reality.

Integrate the conscious and unconscious levels and you create congruency.

The process, the shift, begins with Values Clarification. What is important to you and why. Are you living and working in alignment with those values?

The next step is to look at your Comfort Zones. A comfort zone is the emotional ceiling you have put in place. It is a place to hide. It feels safe because it is familiar.

Your Comfort Zones will indicate your Limiting Beliefs.

For example: Your obvious business goal is to be successful. But, perhaps your unconscious belief is that you are a failure, or, you are not worthy of success.

Your Limiting Beliefs Support Your Comfort Zones. Failure becomes your comfort zone because it is familiar. Everyone has failed at something.

A new zone may feel awkward, foreign or like you “don’t belong” and your inner critic (that voice in your head) will pull you back. The critic, your personal saboteur, will always fight for the status quo, the comfort zone.

In order to access your Limiting Beliefs, you might ask yourself the following questions:
- Where and when do you feel frustrated, disappointed, stuck?
- What are your excuses? Your “yes, buts”?
- Where do you feel guilty?
- When and how often are you second-guessing important decisions?
- How is it serving you to stay where you are? In other words, what is the payback?

Although it is not always necessary to identify exactly where the fears, self-doubts and limiting beliefs originated in order to make a shift, it can be helpful.

Most of our limiting beliefs date back to our early programming as children.

As you begin to re-program your belief system and dump the old stuff, you clear the way for that other voice: the voice of wisdom, insight, intuition and confidence.

Make the choice today to rewrite the old stories and beliefs and access your inner Warrior, the voice of wisdom.

Want to get there faster? Get a Coach!

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