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My Business Beliefs
30th June 2008
The last few days I’ve been spending a lot of time creating my vision for my business and have been having a lot of fun with it too.
Just recently I was asking myself questions about my beliefs around business. The results shocked me because I initially thought that I had good beliefs around business, but after 5 minutes of thinking about it, I realized that all of my beliefs around business weren’t of a positive nature at all!
Here’s my list of beliefs about business…
- I believe business is difficult
- I believe business is dog-eat-dog
- I believe successful businesses have to be ruthless
- I believe it takes time to make lots of profit
- I believe you need time and money to make big $
- I believe business shouldn’t be fun
- I believe business requires lots of hard work and effort
- I believe business is not spiritual
- I believe business does no good for the world
Can you see the problem here?
Although I could understand that I would have some negative beliefs about business, what really stunned me was the fact that I didn’t come out with anything positive what-so-ever. I consider everything on that list to be a negative belief and something that doesn’t serve me.
Here’s where some of these beliefs have come from; TV shows, Dad, spiritual teachers, online forums & previous corporate experience.
Thank goodness I’ve got Aine’s Belief Buster Kit to help me overcome some of these!
The best way I’ve found to uncover what your beliefs about anything is to set a timer at 3 minutes and ask yourself the question “What are my beliefs about… ?”. And then fill in the blank.
Personally, I find that if you sit down for half and hour and really ponder all of the beliefs you have, you’ll find that your mind wanders between all sorts of things and actually prevents you from getting to the root cause.
Instead, answer the question quickly! That way, you won’t give your mind a chance to think about anything else.
*** Update ***
After writing this blog post, I listened to an autobiography by Duncan Bannatyne where he shared his story about how he decided to become a millionaire. Yes… he just decided it was so, and now he’s worth millions and millions of £’s.
Listening to his autobiography has really helped me with a couple of my own beliefs. I feel like I’ve clobbered a couple of them. I no longer feel that business is ruthless, difficult or shouldn’t be fun. If you share any of my beliefs above, I’d highly recommend you dive into a couple of autobiographies from self-made millionaires to help change your beliefs.
Hi there! What a lovely, smiling face you have! Your discoveries about beliefs are interesting. I find that beliefs operate on several levels and may often suffer from internal inconsistency i.e. you may have a belief about something on one level of awareness but believe the opposite on another level of awareness. Sometimes we find that what we say we believe (and actually think we do) may not be what we truly believe. So, exploring our beliefs is an extremely useful thing because you ‘can’t change what you don’t know’! Lucy
I couldn’t agree more - it’s always surprising to see what our REAL beliefs are when we dig into our subconscious to see what’s been lurking there… sometimes for years.
I agree that Aine’s Belief Buster Kit is an excellent way to dig into those beliefs.
Unconscious limiting beliefs affect us in all aspects of life, and I really discovered this when I was learning to write spiritual stories.
So much so, that I made it a core theme in my “How to Write Short Stories for Spiritual Growth” ebook.
I even wrote a workbook specifically titled, ‘Partnering With Your Inner Critic’ (since the inner critic is just another name we give to limiting beliefs).
Anyway, I’m really glad you touched on this topic - I too still have many of the limiting beliefs you talk about, and I continue to work through them to see what MY truth is… not the truth of this arbitrary limiting voice in my head.
Great stuff Gary. I am doing the same working out where my Law of Attraction in Action business is heading. What I need to let go of etc.
Your list of beliefs, looks to me like a list of what I would use to get clarity about what I did want my business to look like.
I FIND using the question So what do I want helps too
What? I’m a bit surprised you have (or had) the above believes about business, Gary, especially since you apparently do have a successful Internet business.
But I see, sometimes surprising results come to the light once we take the time to perform a kind of exercise you described.
Gotta perform that exercise as well since I guess I have a couple limiting believes, too.
~Marcus
Hi all,
Thanks for your comments! I’m planning on putting together a freebie soon which will encourage others to look at their beliefs too. I’ll make it available through the blog and my newsletters etc.
In all honesty… I’ve never given my beliefs that much attention before. I simply attract things I want by raising my vibration and not giving my attention to unwanted things.
It sounds too simple, right? But that is how I’ve done it and continue to do it.
Seeing your beliefs laid out on a plate like this provides me with mixed feelings though - first of all, it provides a platform in which you can grow… that is awesome in my opinion and I’m grateful that I have the clarity of what I need to work on.
But on the other hand, it isn’t a “feel good” to read those beliefs over and over. Instead of dawning on them, I’m taken action to replace them. IMO, that’s the best way to be when unearthing some unwanted beliefs.
I was surprised too, Marcus! What caught me off balance the most was the fact that there was nothing positive there. That has quickly changed and as I mentioned, reading/listening to some inspiring biographies really helps too.
Enjoy the rest of your week everyone, and create a beautiful weekend for yourself.
Gary
Hey Gary,
I take my hat off to your honesty. It’s not THAT easy to tell your audience about that and I think that fact only makes you a remarkable human being.
Having “seen” those beliefs is the key to replace them.
I’m sure you have already replaced some of them by only writing them “out”.
Cheers!
I will work on my beliefs too. Change beliefs is the first step to success. We do what we believe in, and the better beliefs are, the easier to do and work for achieving something.