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Evaluate Your Beliefs to Create Financial Freedom by Donna Himel
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Life coach, Anthony Robbins has taught me so much about how to create financial freedom. He said “If you’re not achieving the success you want to have, it is because of one reason: a conflict of beliefs.” If you say you want prosperity but you’re experiencing poverty, it’s because of a conflict of beliefs. If you say you desire an intimate relationship but you are experiencing one failed relationship after another, it’s because of a conflict of beliefs. It’s not all of the other petty excuses you’re using as your reason for not achieving your goals.
What is a belief? According to law of attraction author, Esther Hicks, a belief is just a thought that you keep thinking. Sometimes the beliefs we hold are subconscious and we don’t even realize they are controlling our lives. They may have been passed down to us through generations; they have been conditioned into us by our parents, our culture, our church or our society. Beliefs like “money doesn’t grow on trees,” “no pain, no gain,” “life’s supposed to be hard” or “some people are just lucky” can be viewpoints that are so strongly programmed into us that they are controlling our behavior.
Stop for a minute today to examine your beliefs. Look around at everything in your life and realize that it is all the result of the thoughts that you’ve been thinking. If you’re completely satisfied with your life, then keep thinking the same thoughts. If not, then make a conscious effort to transform your values and beliefs. In his powerful self-help book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfield says it was when he made a conscious decision to change his beliefs about wealth and how to attract money that he went from barely getting by to making over a million dollars a year.
Today, I will acknowledge that if I say I want something, but am not achieving it it’s because I hold a belief that is in opposition to it which is preventing me from having it. I will stop saying, “I want it but… I want it but…” As Richard Simmons would say, I will get rid of the butt. I will do whatever it takes to match my beliefs to my desires including affirmations, visualization, reading self-help literature and attending self-improvement courses.
