Takeaway: Limiting beliefs will kill your success faster than anything else. You’ll lack both a belief that things can be different and, even if you somehow manage to develop the right skills, you’ll feel like a fraud the whole time.
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Author and coach Marshall Goldsmith said this on limiting beliefs:
“I think we have a lot of self-limiting beliefs. And the self-limiting beliefs, a lot of these come from inside us. Basically, I can’t do this. I can’t do that. This is just the way I am. One of the most common problems is, ‘this is just the way I am’ as if we have some “real” fixed identity that lives throughout time…
As long as we tell ourselves, ‘that’s the way I am,’ two things happen—both bad. One, we inhibit the odds of ever getting better. Two, even if we do change our behavior we don’t seem authentic to ourselves. We feel like a phony because if the real me can’t listen and I say, ‘I’m a good listener,’ well, that’s not the real me. I’m just pretending to be a good listener because the real me is no good at that.”
Limiting beliefs are the number one dream-killer.
You can change. You can improve. You can be that person.
Dream big and keep going.
~ Coach Alex