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The First Step in Changing Your Belief System

September 24, 2008 , 8 Shawn

I believe that you know what is belief system and how it influences your life. It is the main key to your success. If you want to be become a millionaire, then you must first believe that it is possible for you to achieve it. If you want to lose 10 pounds, then you must first believe that you can do it. If you do not believe that you can do it, you will never achieve it.

This is the main point that you have to know about belief system.

However, do you really know what is belief?

In fact, your beliefs are never real. It is real to you only you believe in it. That means, your beliefs are just your perceptions. It is how you look at things. The same incident can happen to 2 people, but both can end up with different results. Just like 2 students going for an exam, both are not doing any revision for it and as a result, both end up failing the exam.

One student may tell you that it is because he did not do any revision and prepare for the exam, while another one may tell you that it is because he is too stupid and has no talent in that subject. Why is this so? This is simply because both of them are having different beliefs. Everyone has different beliefs. If you believe that you are handsome, there must be someone out there has totally opposite belief.

So How Do Your Belief System Formed?

Anthony Robbins described it best by using a table as metaphor. He said that your belief is just like a table top with legs supporting it. And you believe in something because you have developed supportive legs to that table top. For example, if you believe that you are good in math, there must be some reasons that happened and causes you to generate this perception.

Maybe your teacher told you that you are good at math, or maybe both your parents are good at math and so on. Every belief that you have in your mind must be supported by ‘legs’. If there are no ‘legs’, that table top or your belief cannot stand.

Maybe you are still confusing by what I mean here. Let me give you another example. Do you think that you are a confident person? It is all depends on what incident or event that has happened to make you form this perception. Maybe you believe that you are not a confident person because you failed to give a speech in front of a crowd when you are young. Or maybe it is because you failed one-time in your relationship and this makes you form the belief that you are not a confident person.

You should know that your belief system is a very important factor in determining your success. This is because every single decision you make in your life is influenced by your belief systems. If you believe that MLM is a scam, then most probably you will never touch it whenever somebody recommends it to you.

Every single decision and action that you take in your life are influenced by your belief system. Therefore, building an empowering belief system is utmost important in your road to success.

It does not matter whether what you believe is real, what is more important is whether your belief is an empowering one. It is fine if you believe that you are not a lucky person as long as you make sure that your beliefs are able to empower you in your life. Such as if you believe that you are not a lucky person, then you must tell yourself that you must put in more effort and work harder because you have no luck.

So How Can You Change Your Belief System Into an Empowering One?

Before you even change your belief system, you must first follow this first step, accept that your beliefs are not permanent. What you choose to believe can be change, everything can be turned over for the better. If you have the belief that you are not talented in maths, then you must first understand that this will not last forever and it is not the end of the world. You have the power to control what you think, hence, you can change your belief system if you want to.

This is the very first step you must follow through. If you fail in your business and believe that it is the economy’s fault, then you must tell yourself that you will not fail in your business forever. What happens to you in the past does not mean that it is going to be the same in the future.

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Imagine that the first day you go to school, your teacher scolds you and labels you as a slow learner just because you cannot answer one question,  does this means that you are a slow learner forever? Well, maybe you are a slow learner, but this is not going to last forever. This is what is happening to most people, they will form a dis-empowering belief and they actually accept that they are a slow learner if this incident happens to them.

Now you know it very well that this is just what you choose to believe. You believe that you are a slow learner because of your perceptions and the support ‘legs’ for your belief. Once you knew that all of this is nothing but a mere perception or generalization that you created, you start to shake the table, you start to shake your belief system.

This article will serve as the foundation for you to shake your dis-empowering beliefs. In the following article, I’m going to show you exactly how you can change your belief system. You must adopt the empowering beliefs if you are serious in achieving great success in your life.

Continue to read, How To Change Your Belief System.