Is Your Mindset Holding You Back?

Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 9:12 am

One of the biggest obstacles I’m seeing in the Online Marketing Industry is simple: Mindset. If your Mindset is holding you back, I can help you.

I used to struggle with a poor mindset. Not poor in financial means, but poor as in bad. Over the past year, I have worked greatly on my mindset and I am now a completely different person than I was before. I am much stronger, confident, outgoing, etc… This is not to say I don’t have anything left to conquer… Working with your mindset is a lifetime task.

You are constantly presented with ideas, which in turn, turn into your beliefs. Your beliefs rule your mindset, and thus, you yourself. But, I have good news. If you don’t like how you are, there is hope. You can change your mindset, and in doing so, change yourself.

I’ve often heard it said, if you don’t like how something is, wait five minutes and it will change. I’ve usually heard it applied to the weather in certain cities. But this is true of anything. What you feed yourself mentally determines how you see things.

I’ve seen countless case studies of how belief shapes a person. For example, a student believes they are bad at math and they just don’t get it. The student’s poor grades “confirm” that fact. In essence, however, they have led themselves to believe that they are bad in math, and therefore, the reflective grades only “prove” to the student that they were right.

I’ve heard this compared to being hypnotized, in that a hypnotist plants a certain suggestion in the subject and convinces him that it is true. Once the subject “believes” that whatever it is, is true, it happens. Such as in the case of a weight lifter being told that he absolutely could not lift a pencil off of a desk, when normally he could lift over 400 pounds over his head.

When we feed ourselves thoughts and ideas every day that we can or can not do something, our mind kicks into gear in order to make those thoughts and ideas true.

So, I have to ask you. Is your mindset holding you back? Is there some thought or idea there that you can’t do something? If so, let’s try for the next 21 days to re-program your mindset. Reverse those negative limiting beliefs into positive beliefs. Is there something you want to do, but think you can’t? Tell yourself you can. Convince yourself in your mind that you can do that. Visualize yourself doing what you have been wanting to do at night before you go to bed, in the morning as you wake up, and as many times during the day that you can. Visualize your goal and try not to just see it, but hear it, smell it, taste it, and touch it. When you involve all of your senses, it makes the experience much more vivid and memorable.

If you can do this for the next 21 days, I’m certain that whatever your limiting belief was, will be just a distant memory, and a new you will have emerged, doing and being the person you want to be. It starts with you. Shed the negative limiting beliefs and stand tall with your new image of yourself. I believe in you. You should believe in yourself now.

Until next time…

Take Care and Create Your Greatest Day!
Kelli Jacobson

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