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.