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Successful people use empowering beliefs all the time and their beliefs carry something in common, even though some may seem flawed at times. (I know someone who says this to himself every day, ‘Man! I’m so sexy, I’ll attract men and women both the same’)

However, if you look carefully at their beliefs, you will realise that all of them use words that put them in control. Most importantly, they are specific.

Conversely, you can derive a pattern from not-so-successful people’s daily dosage of self-affirmed beliefs. You can identify them quite easily. Let us take a look at the tell-tale features of those not-so-useful beliefs:

For example, ‘my manager does not do his job’ and ‘Mr Johnson’s classes are a waste of time’ or ‘I can never understand that’. Pretty depressing statements, don’t you think?

The above examples contain three big ‘No-No’s’ for any beliefs, like all limiting beliefs.

These beliefs leave you feeling powerless and without control. Notice how the manager and Mr Johnson are made to seem that they are in control of the situation instead of the protagonist. Notice the absence of words such as ‘I am’, ‘I can’ or ‘I must’? Use these powerful words more often to take control of your life.

Those beliefs are too brief. Can you tell what is the manager doing wrong or how is Mr Johnson conducting his class? Be specific! If those beliefs are more specific, it is easier to identify any flaws and correct them.

Those beliefs are self-limiting and these are the worst of their kind! By putting yourself down with words such as ‘I can never understand that’, you are not just surrendering your control, but also sabotaging your potential for improvement. You will resign to your fate and shut your mind towards better opportunities for growth.

Now let us examine some of the top ten most common limiting beliefs and how to counter them. If you realise you have more than two of them, perhaps it is time to re-examine your life.

1. I am too young/old now.
- I’m young and vigorous. This is my advantage and I can do everything in the world.
- I’ve seen the world and possess invaluable experiences. This is my advantage and I can handle whatever comes my way.

2. Work will always be there, I’ll start on it tomorrow. (Procrastination)
- I must set aside a specified amount of time every day and focus 100% within that specified amount of time.

3. I’ll probably just fail anyway, why waste my effort?
- I am capable of learning everything about this new field. I must ask the relevant people and consult the relevant sources when in doubt and always stay focused on what works!

4. If my idea is so fantastic, someone else has probably thought about it and used it.
- Speed is the only protection for my ideas, I must act on it quickly and fully before anyone else does it better than me.

5. My family/friends have invested too much in me; I should not change my decisions now, it will disappoint them too much.
- I am blessed to have supportive family/friends, but I must let them understand my stand and do my best to prove to them that I’m right.

6. My schoolmate/colleague is a genius, there is no way I can ever surpass them. Since I can’t, I might as well give up now.
- I am lucky to have someone to show the standard. I will learn from her and persevere.

7. If life is so fair, why do roses have thorns? I am utterly worthless.
- I have my own undiscovered potential and I must try out everything life has to offer. I will find my innate strength!

8. My preparation is not perfect, the timing is wrong; I should wait a little longer before I start.
- I must start today to work towards being successful, and not wait till I’m successful to start (waiting to be successful to start is a catch-22 anyway).

9. Paris Hilton should be jailed for two months and Beckham should venture into table tennis!
- I must mind my own business and focus on my priorities.

10. I am unworthy of owning/doing/undertaking/being this.
- I have all it takes to own/do/undertake/be this and others recognize it. I will prove that their trust is placed in the right person.

Remember the following words of wisdom:
If life gives you durians, make durian cakes! If your boss gives you headaches, take aspirin (or some alternative ‘organic’ treatment of choice) and then sell your supply of aspirin to your similarly headache-ridden colleagues. If you give yourself poor beliefs, change them, one at a time.

Mohamad Latiff is the Author of Ultimate Secrets of Success
, where you can access 5 secret technologies that will radically alter your life, boost your intelligence, expand your creativity, improve your personal effectiveness and possibly multiply your income for only 10 minutes a day! Ultimate Secrets of
Success

Have you ever had the experience where you felt that the voice in your mind was playing tricks on you, as if it was controlling your every move or action? Did you ever wish that there was some way to regain control of your mind and not let that ‘chatterbox’ in your head completely control you?

This voice, internal editor or chatterbox in your mind is actually an accumulation of a lifetime’s worth of programming, upbringing, memories, experiences and beliefs. Physically, it is a mass of neuronal connections in your brain, a pattern that has already been there for a very long time only because you had allowed it to be so.

Fortunately, you can learn to re-program your mind and there are many ways to do so. The simplest first step you can take is to simply decide to do so. Here are just 7 out of the many ways:

1) Keep recalling and reminding yourself of the people, things and situations that you are truly and completely appreciative and grateful for. You will find yourself calmer and more composed and obstacles and challenges will seem easier to overcome.

2) Keep away and protect yourself from self-affirmed negative thoughts. Negative thoughts have a huge tendency of messing up the way you think and in turn your actions. Identify the various negative thoughts that you have and counter them by:

3) Maintaining positive thoughts in your mind. Think of ways you can channel your negative thoughts into positive ones and reinforce these positive thoughts by self talk. Self talk simply means talking either aloud or mentally to yourself and reminding yourself of positive things.

4) Discard negative thoughts you think people may have of you. It doesn’t matter what other people think of you so as long as you know and feel that what you are doing is correct and proper. Always remember that it is your life and you have the choice to do things your way without letting other people’s thoughts and views affect you.

5) Regard every achievement – no matter how small it may be – as a great achievement. Recall and recap about all the achievements you have achieved in your life and congratulate and reward yourself (if you haven’t done so).

6) Take the effort to comprehend and reinforce your beliefs with proof or evidence. Review your current beliefs and thoughts about various issues and ask yourself if you need to alter them if they are found to be wrong or unsubstantiated.

7) Generate an influx of ideas in your mind. Get inspiration from numerous sources such as your surroundings, books, pictures, newspapers and the internet. Constantly build up your flow of mind-blowing ideas and think of ways you can put them to practical use.

Always keep in mind that you are the ultimate controller, you are truly in command of everything that occurs in your head and it is up to you to tap on this rightful ability of yours to achieve better degrees of success.

Mohamad Latiff is the Author of Ultimate Secrets of Success, where you can access 5 secret technologies that will radically alter your life, boost your intelligence, expand your creativity, improve your personal effectiveness and possibly multiply your income for only 10 minutes a day! Ultimate Secrets of Success

‘No two minds ever come together without,
thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible
force which may be likened to a third mind.’

This is the basis of MasterMind, a concept created by author Napoleon Hill, who studied the success stories of several wealthy people, among them Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Charles M. Schwab, and numerous other well-known names.

A MasterMind group is a collection of people putting their heads together, much like an ongoing brainstorming session or a think tank geared toward a specific purpose.

The thoughts, energies, and passions of the individuals unite into one larger organism, which comes alive as the individual members of the group bounce ideas off each other.

Gradually the ideas collect into one large, moving mass, much like a small snowball rolling down a mountain and becoming larger and larger the further it rolls.

So what can MasterMind do for you and your business? Not only will you end up with a network of peers you can rely on, but you will likely find many key ideas that will turn your business into the success you always knew it could be.

MasterMind groups help you see things from other points of view. Don’t block yourself in by thinking in only three dimensions. Add a fourth dimension by bouncing your ideas off your MasterMind group.

Also, who doesn’t like a challenge? As you see your peers succeeding in their business endeavors, you’ll be even more driven to go out and make your ideas an even bigger success.

Additionally, your confidence will go up as you enjoy these brainstorming sessions with other people who think like you. As your confidence level increases, so will your positive results.

Before you embark on your MasterMind journey, it’s a good idea to mentally condition yourself. Much of society is governed by messages of negativity, from the bad news that dominates the media, to movies full of murder and awful things happening to the characters.

Spend some time flushing these negative messages from your mind and focus on more positive things, like your family, or anything else that takes you to that special place in your mind where everything is golden.

Now that the thought of joining a MasterMind group is percolating in your mind, you may be wondering how to go about finding a group that meets your needs.

The first question you must ask yourself is: What are my personal goals? Once you’ve answered that, you’ll have an idea what sort of group you should seek out. The individual members of the group should have similar goals, although hey likely will not be facing the exact same challenges to their individual goals.

Keep in mind that the some of the other members of your prospective MasterMind group may have already overcome some of the specific challenges you are facing now. By the same token, you may have already overcome the very barriers the members of your group are facing at this present moment.

Now that you’ve established your goals, you’re ready to find a MasterMind group, but many such groups aren’t actually called by this name. Study groups in college, Parent Teacher Associations (PTA), Bible study groups, boards of directors can all be considered MasterMind groups.

Another great mastermind example is Toastmasters. If you’re not familiar with this group, its members meet on a regular basis to work on their speechmaking skills. There are Toastmaster groups in many cities and are a great place for you to gain experience with masterminding.

Actually, any group with a ‘meeting of the minds’ focus to it would be considered a MasterMind group. Look around, ask questions, watch the ‘coming events’ sections in your local media and you will find some excellent opportunities for you to start with.

The next question to ask yourself is whether a group fitting to your needs already exists, or if you should form your own. It’s relatively easy to do that yourself. There are also a number of agencies that will set up a MasterMind group for a fee. The internet is also an important resource to use when searching for a group suited to your needs.

If you wish to form your own group, you need to consider a number of things before you get started. It’s a good idea to start by setting up some guidelines for members of your group. A great starting point for those guidelines is your personal goal.

Think about what you want to gain from the group. Then decide if you know anyone else who would benefit from your group. You may already have a close circle of associates who would be a perfect fit for your MasterMind group.

If you’ve felt more like a lone wolf in your field, and you don’t know others with similar business goals, then you’ll need to market your group. There are many ways to do that. The easiest is to begin with who you know, associations you have a connection to and your local media.

You should decide ahead of time how many people to allow into your group. A good number is between five and eight people. As few as two and as many as twelve are good guidelines for the minimums and maximums.

Before anyone is allowed into the group, you should screen the applicants, making sure their goals are similar to yours. Diversity of occupation, culture, education, etc. is good. Choose people that have a positive attitude and have a desire to be good contributors.

The most important part of the process of setting up a group is making sure you have the right people. But once those people have been selected, how do you go about making the most of your time?

Start with the basics, like location, meeting length, and frequency. From there you can establish the ground rules, including things like attendance and a general format for your meetings. Many successful groups start each meeting with gratitude and praise.

Most meetings will start with a set amount of time for each group member to give an update on their business, and then another set amount of time for each member to set goals, an important part of the MasterMind process.

Accountability is very important to your success. Your group members will help keep you accountable to yourself and your goals as you reach for the stars together, giving each other a boost along the way.

Our suggestion to you is to get started today! You can have a mini-mastermind with a friend to get the beginnings in motion and grow from there. Mastermind is a proven success principle and can be a marvelous way to help you realize your dreams and reach your goals!

John Carpenter Dealey started his first business at age nine and became a “self-made millionaire” by the age of 27. If you would like to learn how to apply these powerful Mastermind principles in your own life, sign up for a free subscription to MasterMind Tips ezine at: http://www.dr-mastermind.com/

Keeping a journal isn’t just for teenage girls. The benefits of writing in a journal on a daily basis are various and great. You can get true insights into hidden parts of yourself, look back and notice patterns or habits, and receive wonderful therapeutic benefits. It’s a wonderful way to release anger, or other emotions that you need an outlet for. Let’s take a look at some information about self discovery through journal writing.

What is Journal Writing?

Journal writing is when an individual keeps a log of his daily or weekly activities, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and dreams. This can be done in a fancy leather bound journal, or an ordinary spiral notebook. The result is the same whether you use expensive writing tools or cheap pens and a notebook. You don’t have to write everyday, although it is an excellent thing to do. You could write every few days or every week.

You simply write as if you were unloading your troubles or thoughts to your best friend, except you have the added benefit of your journal not being able to squeal to anyone you write about! Need to blow off some steam about your boss? Is your spouse driving you up the wall and back again? Get those feelings out, without compromising wonderful relationships. Writing about your problems is therapeutic, and can become one of the highlights of your day.

How Journal Writing can help with Self Discovery.

Writing in your journal will help you express wonderful emotions of happiness, love, fulfillment, and peace. It can also help you to shed your feelings of anger, hate, depression, anxiety or stress. It’s a great way to let go of things that are bugging you, or driving you nuts! After writing for a while, you will begin to notice patterns within yourself.

You can track the things that make you feel a certain way. For example, reading your journal, you’ve noticed that you usually become really upset and depressed around a certain time each year. Further reading has helped you to realize that you get upset and depressed around the anniversary of your job. Why are you becoming upset around this time? Are you subconsciously thinking, ‘Another year in the same dead end job.” Do you have unresolved issues about your job, or are you unhappy in your job?

Another example could be that on some days you seem to be absolutely elated for no reason. Reading further, you realize that you’re always happy and ecstatic the day you’ve seen a certain ’someone.’ Uh oh. What’s going on there? Writing in your journal can truly help you discover things about yourself that you never would have known otherwise.

What Process Should One Use?

Simply write about your most prevalent feelings in a day, what your thoughts were, any important events, things that you thought were interesting. Just write what you feel is relevant or that deserves to be noted. You are your own guide, and it doesn’t matter what you write, because no one else is reading it. Most importantly, try to write at a certain time, like once every day or at least once a week. This will help you discover things about yourself more easily.

The Benefits one can Experience.

There are so many great benefits of journal writing. You can really use writing as an outlet to let go of anger, depression and anxiety. Don’t let anger build up inside of you until you blow up and create a potentially terrible situation. Write about it. You can let go of stress about certain things, and we all know how damaging stress can be. Use journal writing to discover things about yourself that you never knew. You can learn so many things from writing in a journal. The benefits are wonderful, and there’s really no reason not to do it.

You can write in a journal even if you’re not gifted as a writer. You don’t have to make the words pretty or descriptive, because you will automatically feel the feelings associated with the writing. No one else will be reading it, so you don’t have to write a certain way, just write what you want. Good Luck!

Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of My-Personal-Growth.com, a site that provides information and articles for self improvement and personal growth and development.

Your self belief directly influences your destiny and success in life. The beliefs that matter most in life are those that are deeply and often unconsciously held. On the surface, you may think that you believe you deserve the best in life but if your deeply and unconsciously held belief is that you are unloved, unworthy, and incapable of achieving the success you desire, then you will find success and happiness difficult to attain.

Success is a gift you give yourself as a direct result of the beliefs you hold about yourself. Therefore, it is extremely important to evaluate your beliefs and become aware of any that are holding you back or even worse, bringing the very things that you don’t want into your life.

Success is the result of choosing the right goals for your life and taking the most effective steps to achieve them. Our ability to do both these things is directly affected by the beliefs we hold about ourselves. Do we believe we are capable of achieving our goals? And if so, are those goals truly our own? Being true to yourself is an integral part of genuine success and it is impossible to be faithful to your own needs and purpose in life unless you understand what they are.

This means you need to be consciously aware of your deepest beliefs about life. The starting place of this consciousness is to ask yourself questions and then examine your responses. What is most important to you? For example, if your family is more important to you than your career, then in order to be successful you need to create a lifestyle that supports your family values while pursuing your career goals. If you do not do this, your true beliefs will cause you to sabotage your success.

If you are lonely and would like to experience love and romance in your life but you feel unattractive and expect rejection, you will probably not even try to meet people or will drive people away because of your lack of confidence.

The good news is that when you change your beliefs you change your destiny. Thus, your beliefs directly determine the success you achieve in life. Our beliefs influence our thoughts, feelings, words and actions, all of which paint the canvas of our lives with relationships, experiences, successes and failures. Therefore, if you are not successful in any area of your life, consider your habitual thinking about that area, the words you speak about it and the deeply held beliefs these may reflect.

Repetitive experiences in any area such as job loss, insufficient income and relationship break ups are also an indication of deeply held but often unacknowledged beliefs that can rob you of happiness. Alternatively, your successes also reflect your beliefs. For example, those of you who have overcome difficulties to achieve a goal such as a college degree, promotion or other personal goals have been able to do so because of beliefs that support you.

The obvious and most important belief you can have is that you can actually do the thing you desire to do. If you believe you can’t do something then that will be true for you. Fortunately, your self beliefs can be changed and so too can your life.

The first step to changing limiting beliefs is to understand what they are. You can do this by monitoring your self talk. Do you put yourself down a lot? Do you feel like a failure and tell yourself so? Keep a record of what you are telling yourself for a couple of weeks. You are looking for those thoughts that repeat regularly because they will have the strongest impact on your life. Once you have identified them you need to spend some time considering how they may have affected specific areas of your life.

What are the deeper beliefs about yourself that they reflect? Once you have identified the most powerful beliefs that are negatively affecting your life you need to develop strategies to change them. The most effective way to change beliefs is to attack them from multiple angles.

If you believe you cannot accomplish something then you need to begin to do things that will build your confidence in yourself by doing difficult things. Powerful changes can be made to your beliefs about yourself by doing dramatic and frightening things successfully such as sky diving, bungee jumping or learning to do something you have been afraid of such as flying a plane.

Longer term changes to beliefs can be accomplished by rewriting the negative beliefs positively and using them as affirmations. However, the more evidence you can find to prove the truth of these new beliefs the more effective they will be.

Finally, stay away from people who discourage you and try to set in place your old negative self beliefs. Unfortunately, you may need to cut some people out of your life altogether. You need to have people in your life who support your positive new beliefs.

Your beliefs determine your future; they are life and death to you. Therefore whatever undermines your future happiness must be discarded. Your life is a gift to you. Do not let anyone or anything rob you of your best possible destiny.

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