Working Through Excuses & Limiting Beliefs

What do you want? Why don’t you have it? What’s stopping you? That should help uncover some of the limiting beliefs and negative emotions hiding beneath layers of excuses, whether there is truth in it or not.

You can work through some of these excuses and limiting beliefs by journaling about specific areas where you experience the most frustration or feel as though things have stalled. Then, you must gain awareness of when a negative voice chimes in to tell you that you’re not good enough or that you don’t deserve to have it all. Pay attention to when those feelings crop up and write about them.

When was the first time in your life you started to experience those types of feelings? How old were you when they first arose? There’s every chance it was somewhere between three and eleven years old because those years are known as the imprint period (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/gemma-bailey/the-imprint-period_b_14242854.html). The point at which your experiences in childhood have the most impact on who you will become, how you feel, how you behave, and how you will represent yourself later in life.

This is an important stage of childhood, and children must be empowered to understand their emotions and feelings during this time. If they aren’t given the opportunity to do so, then there’s every chance that child will struggle to achieve their potential as they grow up.

When you look back on those feelings and determine when they began, you have to ask what happened, who was present for it, how you felt, and see how that negative belief or excuse grew from the experience. You need to understand how it affected you at the time, how it limited you thereafter, and how it continues to hold you back now.

You might not have learned anything from the circumstance, situation, or event at the time. However, taking the lesson forward with you isn’t too late. When you look back on key moments, you can change it from a negative experience to an empowering, positive one. You can replace that limiting belief, negative thought, or statement with one that empowers and motivates instead. It’s making a commitment to challenging old beliefs to spark your true desire.