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Part 2: "Beliefs"

Your Beliefs and Values work together to determine how you are going to feel. Let's say one of your top Values in life is success. Well, what has to happen for you to be successful? What I learned was that our Values are our targets. But how do you know if you have hit your target? That's based on your Beliefs and your Beliefs are generalizations that you have made, or rules you have set up for yourself about what has to happen for you to experience a certain result in your life.

Rules are like "If-Then" statements. For example, "If I make enough money, Then I am successful". We all have different rules. We may have the same Values but have different rules as to what has to happen for those things to be met. You have to be careful not to make your rules too difficult to attain or you will never experience the result that has to happen and you just set yourself up for failure. Your current Beliefs may be keeping you from experiencing the level of joy and pleasure that you deserve to have. You have to find out where this is happening in your life and make some changes. You have to set yourself up so that your Beliefs, or your rules, are very easy to meet. As long as you do this and keep setting your site on new goals and enjoy the process, you have some real power for your life.

Life is a process and you have to learn to enjoy that process, not just being there or getting to some place or destination. Life is not a destination. Most of us in life have Values we didn't design that are taking us in a direction that we have no clue about. We may have security up there and have no idea that is shutting us down. We may have adventure but we don't have it tempered with intelligence. So we're out there like a maniac doing crazy things. And here's one that I figured out for myself that I had fix. I had success very close to the top of my list of "Moving Towards Values" but at the top of my "Moving Away From Values" was fear of rejection and failure. Can you see where that would cause me to sabotage myself. I was having a terrible time just taking action.

But even worse, we have all these Beliefs that we think have to happen in order to succeed that are absurd. We make it so difficult on ourselves. All those states that you want to get you can get right now. All the emotions that you can ever have are nothing more than physiological storms in your brain. If you put your body in the right place physically and mentally, things you can control, focus the right way, and you will feel those emotions or states now. But here's the problem. Most people set themselves up so that it's practically impossible to win the game of life. They have set up the rules of this game so that it is so tough to win that they wonder why they are disappointed or frustrated or angry all the time. It's because they have lousy Beliefs and they have Values that someone else created and came from the environment around them.

Your goal should be to design your Values and Beliefs that automatically make it easy to feel alive and win every single day no matter what happens because you cannot completely control your environment. You want to empower yourself and be making new distinctions every day. So, take a really good look at what are really your core Beliefs?

There are two types of Beliefs. There are "Global Beliefs" which are giant generalizations about life or people or things. If fact, "Global Beliefs" are usually languaged in the form of "Life is_______", "People are_______", "I am_______", etc. The words to recognize are "is" "are" and "am". So, what are some of the Beliefs you have about who your are? Do they govern how much of your ability or skill you really use and how much of your personal power you really tap into?

Your Beliefs are going to determine what you are willing to try or not try and the success you have or don't have. They literally determine the quality of life you have. If you are unhappy in any parts of your life, it is probably because you have Values that are pulling you in opposite directions. You need to align those and you can start to do that today by changing some of your core Beliefs. You've probably heard this before but here it is again. Whether you believe something is true or whether you believe it's not, you're right. Your Beliefs are what open the flood gates of possibility in your life. Limiting Beliefs shut you down and chain you to limitation. All you have to do is adopt a new belief and you can literally do it in a moment or two.

Beliefs are not permanent things in our lives, but they do determine which questions we are willing to ask ourselves. The questions we ask ourselves determine what we focus on and what we feel. Our Beliefs determine what habitual questions we ask ourselves. So if you think you are inferior, you're probably going to ask questions like "Why do I always do this", "How come I'm not enough", etc. If you keep asking yourself why you're not enough, your brain will figure out why you're not enough. So, we have to change our core Beliefs and get Beliefs that support us.

The second type of Beliefs are the kind we already talked about. They are called "Rules". Remember, rules are "If-Then" statements. I'm not going to repeat what I have already said about rules but remember, you need to set up your Beliefs, or your rules, so that they are very easy to meet. As long as you do this and keep setting your site on new goals and enjoy the process, you have some real power for your life.

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So in conclusion, I challenge you to take the time to list all of your "Moving Towards Values" or the feelings that you'll do anything to experience. Then, put them in order of most important to least important. Next, do the same thing for your "Moving Away From Values" or the feelings you'll do anything to avoid. You will start to understand how your brain makes decisions.

Now, ask yourself what has to happen to make you feel each one of these Values you have listed. "What has to happen for me to feel____________?" These are your Beliefs. Study what you have written down and determine if any of your Beliefs are limiting you somewhere in your life. Now, mess with them. Change them around. Make it easy to feel pleasure and hard to feel pain. Remember, you want to set it up so you can win.

I sincerely hope this information has helped you and that you will use it to your benefit to empower yourself. I have established a blog to track and comment on the internet marketing and home based business industry and how to take advantage of them.

Gary spent 9 years in sales where he learned business & personal skills. But he found his real passion when he got involved in business for himself applying internet marketing techniques to build a successful online business.

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Gary Crowell