On limiting beliefs

One of life’s super skills is the ability to draw empowering conclusions from situations, even unpleasant ones.

Say, a contractor let you down.

You can go two directions from here.

Option one: you can create a limiting belief.

Like “if you want something done properly, you’ve got to do it yourself.”

Option two: create an empowering belief, where it’s your responsibility that the situation went sideways.

Like “next time I need to ask potential candidates better interview questions”.

Or “I need to pay better attention to how the project is going in the beginning, when I still haven’t invested too much.”

Limiting beliefs are dangerous.

It doesn’t take a lot of them to make your worldview extremely narrow and make yourself unavailable to many amazing opportunities.