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Try as you might, you can’t NOT believe something.

Even if you believe in nothing, that’s still a belief! (That there’s nothing to believe in).

Okay. Now hold that thought and consider this:

You will never meet anybody who agrees with you about absolutely everything. Every person alive, or who has ever lived, had their own unique, peculiar set of beliefs.

Sure, there are enough people who share sufficient numbers of beliefs closely enough with you and me for us to be able to rub along. But just beneath the surface of each and every one of us are beliefs about life, luck, love, not to mention religion and politics, (didn’t I say not to mention religion and politics?), that we may find anything from odd to deeply offensive.

Now ask yourself, what do you believe about yourself?

Do others find you talented, attractive, clever or some other positive that you personally struggle to imagine about yourself? You know, the ones where inside you go, “Who, ME?”

Curious, eh? You and your friends, even your lover, can disagree about who and how you are!

But you’re missing a big truth that could not only save you from this unfortunate state of affairs, but also could change your fortunes and reshape your destiny.

Ready?

If no two people will ever agree about everything that means that, however they came by them, they’ve drawn their own conclusions and made up those beliefs.

That’s right! There is no universal Book Of Beliefs that will tell you if you got it right or not. If you think it’s wrong to eat animals, you’re right, because that’s the right belief for you. That doesn’t make the carnivores wrong. It just means they came to a different set of conclusions about that particular issue.

And the same is true about beliefs about you and what you are capable of. Whatever you believe about yourself and your abilities and your potential, they’re still beliefs you made up!

You see, that big truth you’re missing is that you can CHOOSE what to believe. You are completely free to do that.

So you may as well believe things that serve you, make you feel good and have the power to take you and your life to the next level.

Who you are, how much you achieve in your life – or even today – is just a shift in belief away, a simple matter of changing your mind!

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Some years ago I came up with a three step process for eliminating self limiting beliefs in my own life. I called the process, “Knowing Where To Knock” after a joke which goes like this:

A cargo ship was stranded in port. No matter how hard he tried, the chief engineer could not get the engines to start.

The captain was desperate and the engineer feared for his job. Fortunately, the engineer happened to know a talented man in the neighbourhood so the captain told his engineer to call his friend immediately.

Sure enough, an hour or so later a fellow dressed in overalls and carrying a small toolkit arrived. He was quickly escorted to the heart of the ship’s engine room where he took a small hammer from his bag. He reached into a complex part of the engine and gave a tiny tap.

The engine immediately roared into life.

The captain was immensely grateful and instructed the man to email his bill as they needed to set sail without delay.

Three days out to sea the invoice arrived. The charge was $5,000!

The captain was furious. He summoned his engineer and demanded to know why his friend was charging so much. After all, he pointed out, the man had barely spent a minute on the ship. Timidly, the engineer suggested asking his friend and so an angry email was composed, demanding the engineer’s friend explain his high price.

Within minutes an email came back. It read simply:

“For attending stranded ship – $1

For knowing where to knock – $4,999″

The captain paid the bill.

Life works that way too. Once you know where to knock, life will open its doors for you – automatically. And those self limiting beliefs will simply vanish like the ship’s engine’s problem.

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