I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

Mental Barriers

The above video remind us how Roger Bannister refuse to accept the belief that it is impossible to complete a mile under 4 minutes and finally achieved it. He completed a mile under 4 minutes which no body thought was possible because he relentlessly trained to achieve it without giving regards to the thoughts of others.

There are many times when we let down ourselves by listening too much to others. Others may had failed in their ventures and they will tell you that they had tried doing something that doesn’t work. The worst scenario is that we believe so strongly in them and adopt their negative mindset which create huge obstacles for ourselves.

Beliefs are not 100% true

I believe many of us will hear about running a business is hard, creating an online business is just a scam and the stock market is only for the rich. These are just beliefs of others that had previously failed and did not try again to make it work. Why am I so sure about it? Because I see others have created successful businesses, there are successful online business being created and there are also people who start out from nothing and got rich by investing in the stock market.

If you are procrastinating on doing something that you truly love and believe that it will work, why let others stop you from doing it? Others may not have even walk down the path that you intended to walk and they may just be telling you that it is not possible because they failed to achieve it or they are telling you what they have heard in the cafe. Can you even believe in the chatters that they had overheard in the cafe?

If you want to do something but others are telling you not to do it, first of all, look for successful evidences. If there are others who have walked down the path you intended to walk and succeeded, it means that what you plan on doing is possible. The second step you would need to do is to seek them out and learn from them. Tap into their brain and know what is the blueprint for their success. Their knowledge will help you to cut short your learning curve.

Parting Words

Even if you plan on doing something that no others had succeeded, such as the example of Roger Bannister, you can always try it out and see how it goes. If Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers have never tried to create the light bulb and build the air plane respectively, we will not have the luxury of having light in our house at night or traveling to other countries by plane.

Do not allow beliefs of others to stop you from doing what you want to do. If you want to know whether anything will work out, the only way for you to verify it is to take action and do it. I hope you pick up something from this article and the most important lesson of today is to remember that you are your biggest obstacle and choose carefully who to listen to.

Vincent
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Your Name

Most of us have a name that serve as an identity for us but a name also have other uses. Our name can be our brand or even a positive label for ourselves.

Most of the time people are being labeled by others either positively or negatively. A label can either help you or work against you depending on how you look at it.

If you are being labeled as dumb and lazy by others and you start to believe it and act it out, this will be a case where labels work against you. But if others are labeling you as someone smart and intelligent and you start to believe and try your best to maintain that label, the labeling is working in your favor instead.

Do You Know The Meaning Of Your Name?

Our name has meanings in it and we can use it as our positive label. Have you ever check out on the internet to find out the meaning of your name? If not, it is a good time to do it now. Take a minute and find out the meaning of your name over here.

So have you got the meaning of your name?

For example; My name is Vincent and its meaning is prevailing. I checked out the meaning in the dictionary and the definition I got is, “to succeed; become dominant; win out: to wish that the right side might prevail.”

Now I am equipped with this new positive label that I can use whenever I need some motivation. Whenever I am facing any tough times, I will remind myself of my name and the positive label which is I will always prevail in the end. This positive label definitely keeps me going.

Parting Words

Always remember that labels can either help you or work against you. If people are giving you negative labels, you can choose to ignore it as labels do not make you. You make your own positive labels and believe in it.

After acquiring your new positive label, remember to use it when it is appropriate. Whenever you are facing any difficult times, remember the power of your name and use its meaning to help you get past your difficulties.

Cheers
Vincent
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This is the second part of “How Changing Your Beliefs Can Bring Your Success”. If you have not read the previous post, you can read it here.

Part 2

4. Past Results – There are things in life that you will see it as difficult or easy. If you are an experienced writer, you will say writing a book is easy and it can be done with effort or if you are an experienced plumber you will say that fixing a tap is child play.

Why do they see what they are doing as easy while it can be difficult for others? It is because they have done it before and they have the beliefs that they can do it again. Whenever you succeed at doing something, you will find that it is easier to do it the second time because you have the belief that can do it again due to your past success.

Why do so many millionaires say that making the first million is the hardest and after making their first million they still continue to churn out even more millions with ease? It is because they have the belief that they can do it again because they had done it before.

Before the birth of this blog, I have so many doubts in my mind that suspect my ability to set up a blog and have a significant amount of traffic to the site. My belief at that time was I do not have the technical skills to do it and I have zero ideas about setting up a website. I hesitated for some time and finally decided to just jump in and learn the ropes of setting up a website and blogging. Here I am with my blog and sharing personal development information with you guys. Am I confident about setting up a new blog now? Yes I do! I have now created a new belief that I am capable of setting up a self hosted blog due to the action I took and the results that I had achieved.

If you do not have past results that help to support your belief, you can roll up your sleeves and start to create them now. If you want to write a book then start writing a chapter a day. After you know you can write a chapter and you know that you are capable of doing it all over again then gradually after months of writing, you will get a book! This can be applied in any areas that you want results in. If you had achieved results and you believe that it can be done, over time it will just become a self fulfilling prophecy.

5. Creating the experience you want in the future as if it were here now – Whenever physical environment does not suggest the beliefs that you want, you can create an internal representation of what you desire in your mind to help you shape up your beliefs. Visualizing that you had already achieved your desired outcome will help you to create a new belief that you can do it. Visualizing desired outcomes will also help you to be more excited about achieve the goal.

If you are currently earning $1000 per month currently, which situation will cause you to feel more passionate and enthusiastic about waking up?

A. I am going to earn $1000 this month!

or

B. I am going to earn $10,000 this month!

The answer is obviously B!

Summarizing

We have the power to change our quality of life. If you are not happy about where you are today, you can make the choice and effort to change it. Changing your beliefs is the first step to success as where we are today is largely due to our beliefs. Let me give you an example.

A student was told that he is a bad student. If he believe that he is a failure as a student, do you think that he will try his best to excel in his studies? Probably not. He had already signed up for failure and in his mind he will be thinking why bother to work hard when he knew that he was going to fail in his studies?

What if he believe that he is an exceptional student? Will he wake up excited and passionate about his studies knowing that he can grab all those distinctions and merits. Will he tap into his inner resources and use it to the fullest potential to achieve his goals? Will he still take half hearted steps? I believe this time round, he will be excited and passionate to be able to achieve excellence in his studies.

In order to tap into our deep inner resources, we need to believe that we can achieve our desired results. This in turn will unlock our inner resources (it is powerful beyond what we can imagine) to achieve our desired results.

You may be asking, even if you had changed your beliefs into empowering one, does that mean that you are bound to be successful at all times? Probably not, there will definitely be failures along the way but if you maintain your empowering beliefs and keep on taking action, success will be found eventually.

Success breed success and keep the momentum going and having empowering beliefs is the first step towards success.

So what are your negative beliefs? List 5 of them down and replace the 5 negative beliefs with empowering beliefs today to see positive results in your life.

Cheers,

Vincent

Personal Development Blogger

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The Power Of Beliefs

What are beliefs? Belief is a set of thinking that will provide you with meaning and guidance in your life. They are our perceptions of the world.

Beliefs are the commander of your brain and when you think that something is true, your beliefs will command the brain to look for facts that support your beliefs.

That is to say that if you believe that you can be successful in life, be it being happy, wealthy or healthy, you have already won half the battle. Your brain will search for the facts that will support your beliefs.

This shows that your beliefs is one of the most powerful forces that you can use to give birth to your excellence.

You have seen people who have been empowered by beliefs and overcome great obstacles because they have deep beliefs that they can succeed. Your beliefs can help you tap to your deep inner resources and use them to reach your desired goals.

If you have read my previous post on Nick Vujicic, you will see that he is a good example for someone with deep beliefs. He believe that he can overcome his physical disability and God will definitely be beside him to help him. He also believe that God will want him to use his story to inspire thousands and millions of people and it is this belief that help him to break all the walls that are obstructing him and direct himself to where he is today.

Double Edge Sword

Are you using beliefs to your advantage? Have you heard of the placebo effect of drugs? It is the improvement in health but not attributable to any medical treatments or drugs. Research have shown people recovered miraculously when doctors gave them drugs that were stated to help them improve their condition but the drugs that were administered were actually of no medicinal properties. This shows that the patient’s strong belief that the drugs will cure them actually help them in their self recovery. How strong beliefs can be!

What if you are using negative beliefs in your life? What if you are thinking that you can’t be as good as your colleagues and you are always late. Do these beliefs help you?

What you think is what you get. Even if you are skillful at what you do, you can get lousy if you think you are lousy because your brain will scour for information to help you support your beliefs. This is somehow the scientific version of the law of attraction as stated in “The Secret.” What you believe is what you get.

“They can because they think they can.”
Virgil

Look at the above picture. Is it a concave or concurve? You can see it as either way because either way you are right.

“Man is what he believes.”
Anton Chekbov

How to create beliefs that will empower you.

1. The role models – Who are your role models or do you even have one? If you do not have one I suggest you better read up more books and know who and where you want to be in the next 10 years. Find someone that you want to be like them and learn from them.

2. Environment - The environment plays a big part in fostering beliefs. Have you noticed that why is it that people in the Ivy League seems to be smarter and work harder? It is because of the healthy and positive environment around them! They see people in the school studying, working hard, graduated and land a job that pay them good money. This positive environment let them believe that it is possible for them to achieve the same results by applying the same strategies.

What if they are put in a bad environment. Environment that have people smoking weeds, taking drugs and fighting seems to take over the importance of studying. Do you think they will succeed in graduating from college? I highly doubt so and I also predict that they will start to learn from the people around them and they will gradually become one of them.

If you are in an environment that you think cannot aid to your prosperity, change it. Find a place that you can learn and improve yourself. If you have friends that are negative and keep saying that you can’t succeed in life, run away from them as quick as you can. If your house is in the street where there are only disastrous sights to be found, move to the other street. Find a place where there are positive energy flowing around the neighborhood and there are bountiful of successful people who will empower you and soon you will find that you will become one of them.

3. Knowledge – Gaining knowledge through reading, watching movies or on the internet can help you to gain new positive beliefs. By studying the accomplishment of others, you can create the belief that you need in order to succeed. One great movie I would recommend would be “The Pursuit of Happiness” starring Will Smith. It is a wonderful movie that shows how Chris Gardner struggled with poverty and getting rich in the end. The story is based on real story and it is possible to find that your eyes are teary when you see the obstacles he faced.

This is the end of part 1 and I will continue to elaborate on other points on creating empowering beliefs in part 2.

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