Practical Ways That You Can Tackle Limiting Beliefs

Limiting beliefs can be one of the biggest reasons for people not fulfilling their potential. This is not down to luck or someone else doing you a disservice, but a failure of you to reach your goals, or even worse, not even try, because you doubt yourself too much.

There are many different kinds of limiting beliefs. One website lists as many as 80. Some of these might be familiar, such as thinking you are too young, too old, not pretty enough, not creative enough, not skilled enough, or that you are not lovable or too damaged from bad past relationship experiences to have success in the future.

You may read some of these and find yourself nodding along. But it is important to notice how unnecessarily negative they are, as well as being self-fulfilling. If you don’t think you can get a better job you won’t apply for it. If you think you can’t succeed in relationships you won’t try.

That is why life coaching can be transformational in getting you to confront these limiting beliefs. Just because you may have them does not mean they are true. Lots of people underestimate themselves. The causes may range from trauma and bad experiences, or a lack of affirmation in early life.

You can fight back with a series of steps, including challenging your beliefs, monitoring how you talk to yourself and working to foster new, more positive beliefs about yourself.

However, doing this on your own can be extremely hard. It is with the help of a great life coach that you can be guided to spot untrue limiting beliefs. You may even find that group therapy helps.

Dispensing with limiting beliefs can open the door to a better life. But it is not a thing you can ever do on your own. That is why getting the help you need from a great life coach will make all the difference.