Let's end this week by looking at the things that are inside your head that will try to stop you from being the success you deserve.

There is a technical term for them:

'Self-limiting Beliefs'

Take a look at those three words.

Self - Self implies that it is inside of you. That it has no external reference. It is your creation. No-one else's.

Limiting - To limit is to set a barrier. A barrier that you cannot pass.

Beliefs - Beliefs are ideas that are taken on trust. They have no particular basis in fact - they are something that you have come to accept without question.

Self-limiting beliefs - uncorroborated ideas that you have put in place to set artificial barriers for yourself.

We all have thousands of them. Every single one of us believes absolutely in hundreds of so-called facts that hold us back from where we really should be going.

When I was 11 my head teacher told my parents that I was a good student but I was let down by my writing. I took that to mean that I was a bad writer (I think now he meant my handwriting, but the damage was done). So for the next 30 years I hardly dared to write anything.
I was NOT a writer. I believed that absolutely, but still there was a voice inside of me that was trying to get out.

Then one day I wrote a few things for my own amusement and other people got to see them. They said they liked what they saw and had I got any more?

Bang! My self-limiting belief was challenged. My inner voice escaped.

Now I write every day for thousands of people, have produced five ebooks and have at least three more on the blocks.

I can now say, without fear of my brain laughing at me, that I AM a writer.

I still have other self-limiting beliefs. I can read the words on a tax return, for example, but my brain refuses to let me understand them.

I know I COULD install my new forum software, but my self-limiting belief keeps telling me that I will mess it up.

But you know what - I recognize these self-limiting beliefs as the fallacies that they really are. I KNOW in my heart that they are only my brain's way of protecting me from failure.

But what is worse - failing to succeed or failing to try?

Your self-limiting beliefs are probably every bit as silly as my ones. And you are sure to be far more able that you ever give yourself credit for.

So to end this week, my message is simply this -
suspend your disbelief in yourself.

From now on, stop suspecting that you CAN'T and start to believe that you CAN.

You will find a lot of barriers melt away.

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