Day 5 – The Belief Challenge
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Day 5 – The Belief Challenge

Believe in Yourself

I realized a long time ago that I believed in others, strangers even, far more than I believed in me.

If anyone shared a big dream with me, I believed they could do it.

  • Write a book.
  • Start a business.
  • Start a non-profit.
  • Create a new program or product.
  • Have an outstanding relationship.
  • Get in amazing shape.

Any dream, no matter how big, I could already SEE them achieving it.

But not mine.

For a long time, I thought everyone else could achieve their greatness but felt that mine may not come.   My own dreams were not possible. Even my small dreams seemed too big.

It’s easy to believe in others. It’s not as easy to believe in ourselves.

A LOT of work went into believing in myself.  It was all worth it.  Believing in everyone else definitely helped me get there. Having others believe in me helped too.

But here’s the key:  When I looked deeply at my thoughts, I recognized that the game-changer was my own limiting beliefs.  What I THOUGHT about myself and my inability to achieve my dreams was holding me back from achieving them.

Those thoughts weren’t true for me then.  Those limiting thoughts aren’t true for you now. When we discover that, it’s game over!

Believe this and say it to yourself – out loud, in the mirror, in your mind.  Often:

  • I can achieve anything I want.
  • I can share my gifts and be rewarded for it.
  • I can have a lucrative business while serving others.
  • I can have an outstanding relationship.
  • I can be in the best shape of my life.
  • I can have a badass business and be a badass mom.
  • I can have it all.

Our new powerful positive thoughts become our beliefs.

We can build our own beliefs. They’re not handed to us.  We choose them. They don’t choose us.

This is powerful work we’re up to.

If you really want something, believe in yourself.  Then anything is possible.

Which Belief will you repeat to yourself today?

 

Day 4 – The Belief Challenge
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Day 4 – The Belief Challenge

Believe in Love

In other words, go all in.

When I met John I wasn’t ready to go all in. I fell in love with him but I didn’t trust it. Or him. Or me.

I had a lot of doubts about marriage and relationships. I doubted who I was and where I was going in life.

Needless to say, it didn’t serve our relationship at all.

I remember the day I decided to go all in.

We weren’t married yet. Or even engaged for that matter. We were flying on a plane and I don’t remember where our destination was. He was sitting next to the window, his head on my shoulder, sleeping. We’d been dating for a long time. Maybe 7 years. It wasn’t perfect. There was a lot of drama. But we were still together. We never really considered being apart.

Up until then, we also weren’t ready to go all in. 

I was writing in my journal and thinking about living life with no regrets. Looking over at John sleeping, I realized in that instant that I’d regret not marrying him. I would regret not going all in.

So I made a choice:  To believe in love. To believe in us.

And it worked. Our relationship works when we’re both all in.

Believing in love is key.

Are you all in?

How do you show it?

Day 3 – The Belief Challenge
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Day 3 – The Belief Challenge

Believe that Nothing is Too Good to be True

Cultivate big dreams.  Believe wholeheartedly that those big dreams will come true.

Our human nature compels us to tend to focus on what hasn’t come true – what is lacking. It’s just where our mind goes. Consider for a moment the MANY things we now have or have done that were once only a dream.

We need to focus more on those.

Life is full of wonder. And awe. And Miracles.

We only have to allow ourselves to see it.

Nothing is impossible. Nothing is too good to be true. Life is full of fairytales.

Look for them. They’re everywhere.