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Limiting Beliefs – Why Conscious Efforts May Fail You

We’ve talked about limiting beliefs a couple of times (and how to eliminate a limiting or negative belief in under 20 minutes) on this blog, but we skipped over the nitty-gritty and talked about my experience with a belief elimination method, how I eliminated limiting beliefs and how it affected my life experience and results. (Here is the original post, and here is the two-year follow-up.)

We haven’t discussed what a limiting belief is and how it manifests in your day-to-day life, showing up in the places that you are unhappiest. This can include your money situation, work situation, health situation, relationship situation and the relationship with yourself. It shows up in different places for different people based on their particular beliefs. It usually is much stronger is some areas.

What is a Belief?

A belief is something we hold to be true. Inherently, belief is the absence of doubt. We hold beliefs about everything and our beliefs inform our view of the world and our relationship to other people. Beliefs are self-perpetuating.

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5 Quick Steps Towards Peace of Mind Now

Steps Towards Peace of MindWe can easily say we live in a world where distractions are the norm. There seems to always be background noise outside and within ourselves. There are so many things competing for our attention, there are things to remember, things to do, deadlines, and then, you have to sustain yourself with food and water and some exercise if you are lucky.

Well, here I am going to give you 5 quick steps towards peace of mind you can take right now.

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Clarify What You Value Most and Get More of It

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Are you living your best life? If your answer is an unequivocal yes, that is super awesome and you must write to me and to the folks reading this and share your formula (seriously). You may also know you are in a small minority of people. Most of us know we can be doing better than we are. This could mean a lot of different things to different people but overall it’s the same idea. We could be spending more time with family or friends, taking better care of our health, cultivating our passions, spending more time in service, or anything that we know would improve our quality of life, yet we forgo either taking steps towards it or implementing it into our day-to-day lives. Continue reading “Clarify What You Value Most and Get More of It”

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Manage Decision Making Fatigue = Make Better Decisions Faster and Easier

decision making fatigueDecision Making What?

Decision making fatigue is a real thing. The idea is that we have a limited amount of decision-making energy each day, and through the process of making decisions, this energy diminishes. Along with the energy, the quality of our decisions diminish as well. Have you ever been confronted with a simple question like, “What time do you want to have  dinner?” and it’s a big ordeal to think of an answer? This is due to decision making fatigue. This is bad news bears for those of us who make life changing decisions each day. The thing is we are all making life changing decisions each day – whether we know it or not. Continue reading “Manage Decision Making Fatigue = Make Better Decisions Faster and Easier”

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Good Mistakes vs. Bad Mistakes: Exploding Fallacies

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Good mistakes versus bad mistakes

We are conditioned to believe that mistakes are inherently bad. This conditioning was created in childhood and reinforced throughout our lives. The origins are innocent enough – children are crazy little beasts and as a matter of course they make tons of mistakes. Parents try to manage the madness and want these beasts to stop making messes, hurting their siblings and ultimately just want them to remain safe.

The thing is that as new beings on the planet, children intuit that mistakes are how they learn and grow. Mistakes are how we begin to test our impact on the world and people around us. We measure physics and chemistry. As young toddling toddlers we experiment with gravity and the “first steps”. Continue reading “Good Mistakes vs. Bad Mistakes: Exploding Fallacies”

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Understand Your Cognitive Biases and Make Better Decisions

Are You as Objective as You Believe?

Everyone wants to believe that they are or at least have the ability to be objective and rational. We like to believe we can tap into that, even if we know on some level we do not operate from that space regularly. There is often a gap between what we want our lives to look like and feel like, and what they actually look like and feel like. Why is this? Why and where does decision making go awry? And how does it happen so damn often without our notice? Continue reading “Understand Your Cognitive Biases and Make Better Decisions”

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The Lefkoe Method Review – Two Years Later

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What We Want

The question is, has the Lefkoe method made a difference in my life since I purchased the Natural Confidence program two years ago? The best way to answer that is to address why you are looking, and why I was looking.

We all seek change – deep and meaningful change to get to the next level. We understand on a deeper level that we can enjoy a greater quality of life if we could only access more of our potential and stop working against ourselves, in small (or large) yet significant ways. This is what the Lefkoe Process is ultimately about. And below is a short version of how it changed things for me.

The first time I posted about the Lefkoe Method was in July of 2012. You can read that review here.

It was a pretty positive review. Written only a few weeks after I had begun doing the work of the Lefkoe Method and I already began seeing changes in my life. At that point, the changes were mainly in my inner world and how I perceived things.

I noticed a real difference in how I reacted to the world around me. People, circumstances, and situations that would usually get me thinking certain thoughts, negative thoughts about myself, were flagged in my mind and questioned. It was uncanny and liberating. The “real change”, or the external, you-can-measure-it-and-point-to-it change, began shortly after that post was written. Continue reading “The Lefkoe Method Review – Two Years Later”

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What Eating Too Fast Leads To (hint: overeating is not the only thing)

By now I think we’ve all heard about the idea that it takes the body 20 minutes to know if it’s full. Well, I have recently learned, by this awesome food psychology guy Marc David, that it isn’t simply about knowing that the body is full, but something far greater than that.

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Employ These Strategies and Sleep Better Tonight. (or I’ll give you a nickel)

Sleep is super important.

Most people (funnily enough, those who are not chronically sleep deprived) will feel a marked difference when losing as little as an hour of sleep a night. The differences usually include being easily stressed out, angered or emotional, losing cognitive function (slower to react, reaching for words, forgetting things, etc), and just being less happy. Also, sleeping time is essential time for the body to repair, heal, clean house. When we disturb that process, we are putting ourselves in harms way by weakening our immune response and not allowing the intelligence of this amazing body to do its thang. Continue reading “Employ These Strategies and Sleep Better Tonight. (or I’ll give you a nickel)”

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The Article that Changed Your Life

Every once in a while we come across a piece of writing that really strikes a chord within us. It is like it is speaking to us directly and on the deepest of levels and creates a shift in perspective. Well, this is what this article did for me a few years ago when I first read it. I don’t want to build it up too much, because different things work for different people, but there are some universal themes here to I think apply to everyone.

I will post the text of the article after this introduction and also a link to where it resides on the web. You should definitely check out more of Steve Pavlina’s stuff if you are so inclined. There is some that is a little out there, but if I were you, I’d search by title and what appeals to you. Also, Steve has put all his work in public domain, allowing me to post freely.

The article is on the longer side; I would print it out and take it with you. Next time you are stuck waiting in line or otherwise have some time, read through it. Let me know what you think!

The Courage to Live Consciously

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits
in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
– Helen Keller

In our day-to-day lives, the virtue of courage doesn’t receive much attention. Courage is a quality reserved for soldiers, firefighters, and activists. Security is what matters most today. Perhaps you were taught to avoid being too bold or too brave. It’s too dangerous. Don’t take unnecessary risks. Don’t draw attention to yourself in public. Follow family traditions. Don’t talk to strangers. Keep an eye out for suspicious people. Stay safe. Continue reading “The Article that Changed Your Life”