For the longest time, people believed that the earth was
flat and that if you traveled all the way to the end, you
would fall off! People were trapped; they were stuck in a
world that reached out only as far as they could see - a world
much, much smaller than the actual size of earth. They were
stuck not because that was all that they had available to
them, but because that's all they "believed" they
had.
They firmly held on to this belief until one day someone proved
them wrong by sailing around the world. And in doing so, he
opened up a whole new world of possibilities and opportunities
for everyone. The rest of earth became available to them.
Beliefs are funny creatures. You see, beliefs are not necessarily
based on what's true or factual in the world. The power of
each belief comes only from the believer of that belief; the
strength of your belief depends on how strongly you believe
it to be true.
That means that you can believe whatever you want to believe.
Because, as long as you believe it to be true, it will be
true in your life. Consequently, you will attract events,
experiences and people into your life that will match your
beliefs, which will in turn strengthen those beliefs further.
The level of success of a person depends greatly on his/her
beliefs. It depends greatly on how s/he views the world, through
those beliefs. For this reason, it is very, very crucial to
adopt only the beliefs that serve you and to let go of those
beliefs that limit you.
Because, we don't always see what is "real." We
perceive the world based on our beliefs. As we walk through
life, we begin to realize that a lot of what we learned growing
up was not very useful, or even true. We begin to realize
that life is really about "choices." That we can
choose to believe whatever we want. And if a certain belief
is not very useful, we can change it.
You have done it before. It takes courage to be willing to
look at your current beliefs and then decide whether they
serve you or sabotage you, whether to keep them or get rid
of them. But you have that choice. You have the power to change
your beliefs, and to change what is "real" to you.
Here are a few commonly held beliefs, or "myths,"
that hold many of us back from achieving success.
