Alex Lieberman, entrepreneur and ghostwriting agency founder, opens up about his limiting beliefs and shares tips on how to remove them. Topics include understanding and overcoming limiting beliefs, gaining awareness and navigating them, the impact of beliefs on action and results, and the power of visualizing success.
Identifying and challenging your limiting beliefs is crucial for achieving personal growth and overcoming obstacles.
Visualizing success and cultivating a strong belief in the possibility of achieving your goals can help reframe your limiting beliefs and shift your mindset towards taking action.
Deep dives
Understanding Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are subconscious stories or thoughts that hold us back and dictate our actions. These beliefs often stem from past experiences and can be deeply ingrained in our subconscious mind. Examples of limiting beliefs include feelings of unworthiness, lack of motivation, and self-doubt. They shape our behavior and can prevent us from accomplishing our goals and reaching our full potential. It is crucial to become aware of these beliefs and challenge them in order to overcome their negative effects and achieve personal growth.
Identifying Limiting Beliefs
To identify limiting beliefs, an exercise called 'Yeah, but' can be helpful. First, write down your most ambitious goals for the next 6-12 months. Then, write out all the 'Yeah, but' statements or reasons why you believe you can't achieve those goals. These statements often reflect your limiting beliefs. Pick the two or three most provoking and frequently repeated 'but' statements as your most powerful limiting beliefs. By recognizing and acknowledging these beliefs, you can gain awareness of how they hold you back from pursuing your ambitions.
Rewiring Limiting Beliefs
Once you are aware of your limiting beliefs, the next step is to reframe them and prevent them from hindering your progress. One approach is visualizing the desired outcome and cultivating a sense of certainty around it. By envisioning success and believing in the possibility of achieving your goals with the same conviction as your limiting beliefs, you can shift your mindset and take action towards your aspirations. This process involves rewiring your belief system and consciously choosing thoughts and actions that align with your desired outcomes.
Episode 56: Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) opens up about some limiting beliefs that he still deals with today. Even after successfully selling Morning Brew and starting his ghostwriting agency, StoryArb, there’s internal dialogue that thinks he’s not capable of achieving his goals. Entrepreneurs face this problem at almost every turn when they’re starting their business. Here are tips on how to remove those limits from your mind.