Limiting beliefs are beliefs about yourself that hold you back from from doing what you want to do. In this blog post I share with you ways you can identify and expel limiting mindsets. Many entrepreneurs struggle with the impostor syndrome, holding them back from living the life of their dreams.

If you ever struggled with limiting beliefs and realize they are the culprits that keep you from stepping out into your “zone of genius“, then you will want to implement these action steps today.

#1 Identify and Expel Limiting Beliefs and Mindset

Start with understanding what a limiting mindset is.

The human mind has an amazing ability to come up with infinite reasons why you can’t do something. There is a good chance you have limiting beliefs stopping you right now and you don’t even realize it.

Limiting beliefs come in a variety of shapes and forms.

The very familiar one is our THOUGHT PATTERNS.

Limiting beliefs might be thoughts like:

• “I always mess up when I try this.”
• “I’m not good at this.”
• “It’s selfish or immoral for me to succeed.”
• “I’m not meant to be successful at this.”
• “If I try this, people will judge me.”

It could be any negative recurring thought that stops you. Regardless of what the specific thought it, this type of negative thinking will hold you back from achieving your goals.

To eliminate them, you first need to identify them.

#2 Calling out Your Limiting Beliefs

You can dispel these negative beliefs by calling them out and telling yourself they’re not true.

Each of us has a different set of recurring negative thoughts.

What are yours?

Simply realizing when this is happening is a great first step for combating them.

How I call out my limiting beliefs is by starting to filter through TRUTH and LIES.

By knowing who you are, what you are capable of and what you have already accomplished, will help you discern the lies you tell about yourself.

Use these steps to help you practice calling out your limiting beliefs:

Rely on Examples

How do you tell yourself a belief isn’t true?

A great way is to use examples.

• Look at your own experience and times when you’ve overcome challenges.
• Look at the lives of others to see how they overcame obstacles they were facing.
• For example, think of a time you were successful before.
  • Did people judge you?
  • They were probably quite happy for you.
  • This helps you to realize that this limiting thought isn’t valid.

Practice Positive Affirmations

Limiting beliefs are a habit of the mind.

You can create new habits through positive affirmations.

Instead of repeating to yourself that you can’t do it, tell yourself you can.

If you suffer from a fear of success, tell yourself,

“I am successful. I will succeed and this will help and inspire others.”

If you’re not good at something, tell yourself,

“I am learning this, and I can master it just like any other skill.”

Simply repeating positive phrases can combat negative self-talk.

#3 Adopt the Growth Mindset

The growth mindset is a way of thinking that helps you re-frame negative thoughts like these into positive ones.

It asserts that we aren’t static and fixed but change and grow over time.

This can be applied to any area of your business and teaches you to defeat the “inner critic” that tells you that you can’t do something.

#4 Revisit Your “Why”

It can help you see things in a positive light by going back to the “why” that lies behind your current efforts.

Reconnect with your original vision and goals.

Where would you like to be next year? See how far you’ve come and use this to fight back negative thinking. The importance of self reflection is often neglected by entrepreneurs.

Self reflection is a great tool to combat negative thinking and it helps to adapt a growth mindset. As anything in life, practice makes perfect. Learn how to succeed by succeeding.

#5 Visualize a Positive Outcome

The reward of what you try is well worth the risk.

The worst that can happen is that you make a mistake.

But a mistake is a great learning experience.

If you grasp this, you can defeat the inner critic’s limiting beliefs and take action.

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The Importance of Charting Your Progress

To succeed with the growth mindset is a way of thinking that says we evolve and develop over time.

It states that we are not fixed and static.

To be successful at business (or anything in life), you need to adopt the growth mindset so that you can continue to learn and grow.

An important element for the success of a growth mindset is charting your own progress.

A Feedback Loop for Success

How do you know if you’re growing?

One of the key ways to succeed with the growth mindset is to chart your progress.

This means identifying each milestone and recognizing when you’ve reached success.

This milestone offers proof that you’re growing and shows that you can change over time, while at the same time showing that you’re making progress towards achieving your goals. It serves as a kind of positive feedback loop. Each milestone provides you more evidence of your growth; this in turn helps you keep pushing ahead and setting the next milestone.

Create a Digital Success Folder

How do you chart your success progress?

When teaching students to learn how to succeed with the growth mindset, teachers encourage them to keep a success folder.

You can do this too with a digital success folder.

Save screenshots or files somewhere for completed projects you’ve done. Include anything you consider an achievement. You can use this material for motivation when you need it. It offers evidence of how far you’ve come.

Learn to Set Better Goals for Success

The way you set your goals can make a difference in your development. In order to set a milestone you’ll achieve, it has to be SMART:

Specific – Identify exactly how you will know once the goal is achieved.
Measurable – Attach some numbers so you can easily measure it.
Actionable – Break it down into the steps needed to reach it.
Realistic – It needs to be something you can achieve.
Timely – Set a deadline for when you’ll do it.

With clearly defined milestones, you’ll know for sure when you reach them, and they’ll be more effective in both reaching your goals and charting your progress.

Re-frame How You View Mistakes

A key to the growth mindset is re-framing how you think about mistakes.

Mistakes aren’t failures; they’re learning experiences.

They don’t impede your growth. They’re a necessary part of growth just like successes. If you understand this, you can take action toward goals and more easily reach your milestones.

Charting Your Progress Is Important Work

Successful people chart their progress as a matter of course. It becomes a habit. But if you want to adopt the growth mindset, you have to make it an intentional part of your business. This means setting aside time for strategic planning and taking the time to learn new skills and techniques.

Put time on your calendar to

• set goals,
• review results, and
• remind yourself

how far you’ve come by referring back to your digital success file.

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