How do you do this? We’re going to go back to something I’ve learned a long time ago from my dad and I believe he learned it from a guy named Jim Rohn back in the day and what it is if you want to change your results in life, you gotta change your mindset – your thoughts first. Those thoughts lead to your potential.
What is the potential of a human being? We don’t know! The truth is we know that the potential we thought we had is greater than what we thought. People run faster, jump higher, swim quicker, leap further than they’ve ever done in history ever before. That proves that the potential of a human being is constantly expanding. We’re always expanding past than what we thought used to be possible decades before.
At one point in history, I’m sure you’ve heard this before, there was a guy named Roger Bannister who was told if he ran quicker than a four-minute mile, his heart would literally explode inside of his chest and he would die. And then he said, “Okay let’s do it!” I don’t know how many of you out there are trying something in your life or business that basically the “expert” say “If you succeed at this, you will explode from the inside out.” This Roger Bannister guy broke the four-minute mile. He was the first person in history to do it and there were 13 or 14 people who also did it the year after because they know that it is possible.
So first, you gotta change your mindset. That’s going to determine how much potential you tap into inside of yourself as a human being. We just have to figure out how to tap into it, access it, and apply.
Based on the amount of potential you tap into, that’s going to determine that amount of action you take every day. Even if you are horrible at what you do if you go out and take more action than anybody else, intelligent action not just random action, you measure the results, track your performance and you figure out how to improve it every time, over time with tremendous amounts of action you will eventually get to the result you want and improve and consistently get better and better and be able to achieve those better goals faster.
With all those actions, it will eventually lead to results. Results reinforces whatever the belief is you go “ha ha! I knew I could do it! I knew it was possible!” You even have more certainty which makes you tap into more potential which makes you take more action, which takes you to bigger, better results and it will lead and come back to “I knew it would work!”
The flipside to this is if you have a limiting belief, a limiting belief is anything that slows you down, keeps you back or hold you from being the best version of who you are – “It’s not possible, I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, I don’t have the right background..” Even if it’s true that you’re incredibly limited with time, you can still make so much happen.
This could be in your business or health, but I would love for you to identify what’s an area of life you’d like to make a change in? Once you have identified that area of your life that you’d like to make a change in, the next piece I want you to figure out is what’s the story you keep telling yourself about why you can’t make that change happen? Is it that you don’t have the time? Money? Right connections? Competition? Market’s down?
My dad keeps telling me that the only reason why you don’t have the things that you want in life is because you keep telling yourself the story why you can’t have it! That’s the only reason. If you give it another story, things change.
The very first thing you’ve got to do is to change the belief. There’s a quick way how to do that:
1. Go to the website TheWork.com. It’s by Byron Katie and she has a very simple process. We’re going to do a worksheet on this where you can identify the number one limiting thought or story that’s holding you back. You can then, either go to TheWork.com and apply the questions just like what we have in the worksheet and how to turn it around.
The questions are:
Is it true?
Is it true all the time, everywhere, no matter what?
Who are you when you believe it to be true?
Who would you be without it?
2. Turn it around. Find the turn around that supports what you want to achieve and help you get there instead of holding you back from it.
Set an action in stone and do it today. You’re going to go and prove and defy the old story and prove to yourself that it’s possible. The moment you defy the old story and you have new evidence that says I can do this, I have done this - the belief changes immediately.