This is a guided journal prompt to help you dismantle your limiting beliefs.
Every day you make a decision to speak up or to stay quiet,
To take the risk or play it safe.
Behind all the decisions you make,
There's often a few beliefs that you carry about yourself.
Some beliefs will help you go forward and some will hold you back.
Here are some examples.
I don't have time.
It's too expensive.
I don't have the willpower.
I don't deserve love.
I don't understand.
All the good ones are already taken.
What if I'm settling?
I'm scared of rejection.
I don't have what it takes to succeed.
I could never do that.
I don't have the skills or talent.
Successful people are just lucky.
I'm just not good with money.
I'll never make enough money.
Let's dive in to one of your limiting beliefs in this session.
Grab your journal and a pen and find a quiet space where you can be alone.
Think about just one belief that's gotten in your way,
Put a delay in your timeline or has stopped you completely from reaching your potential.
Write it down.
Take the next minute or pause the recording and take more time.
So you learned this belief about yourself at some point.
It may have even helped you,
But now it's keeping you from expanding.
We use the same old path or pattern of thinking and walk down it the same old way.
We begin to become stagnant.
To begin growing again,
You will let this old belief go.
You'll change paths.
Your new path will require you to act differently and to be prepared in different ways.
Reflect on what this change could mean for you.
Reread what you wrote and now imagine how you can reframe this limiting belief.
For example,
A coworker put you down anytime you'd bring up an idea.
You say to yourself,
I'm not courageous enough to bring up how this impacts me to my coworker.
Maybe my ideas aren't valuable anyway.
Writing allows us to say,
I express my opinions assertively.
I am courageous and I'll have a crucial conversation with my coworker today to ask him to change his way with me.
Reflect on how this new belief feels different.
Decide on how you want to reframe the limiting belief you've chosen and write it down.
This will allow you to come back to it in the future and continually reframe and explore it.
Now say the reframe belief out loud to yourself and notice how different your body feels when you speak this new belief.
Reflect on how it feels to hear your new belief.
Is it a different experience from the original thought?
What's in the past is in the past.
What we have is right now.
It's really all that exists.
Don't focus solely on trying to shift other people's behaviors,
Beliefs,
Feelings,
Or perspectives especially if it's about you because you can shift your own beliefs at any time and no one can keep up with that.
Your mind can be reshaped in any way you like and you do not have to explain that process to anyone.
Reflect on the possibility of reframing your thoughts and beliefs especially about yourself.
Let's take a big releasing breath,
Inhale,
Breathe out your mouth,
Sigh it out.
Now close your eyes and let's reflect on a different situation where you felt that limiting belief that you first wrote down.
Now bring back the colors,
The smell,
The visuals into your mind and visualize making it as visceral and as realistic as you can.
Imagine going through that same situation but with your newly reframed belief about it.
If your mind wanders,
Bring it back to the visualization.
You did it.
You now have a second chance at living that moment differently.
The more you reflect and reframe your other thoughts,
The more your new beliefs become second nature and the more you break all the limitations down,
You have arrived at a new view.
Enjoy.
