When limiting beliefs get in the way of your success

Has this ever happened to you? Things are finally starting to fall into place. The phone rings, new clients show up and you start meeting joint venture partners to help grow your business. Yay! Things are looking up and then, it all suddenly falls apart. Clients don’t show up and meetings with potential partners are cancelled. What happened?

Sometimes, people who have made shifts in their mindset to attract clients still have some subconscious thoughts around not feeling that they deserve success. That means inside, emotionally, it’s like oil and water. The water part says, “Yay! I’ve got new clients, new partners and I’m making money!” Then you’ve got limiting beliefs represented by the oil part which says, “I don’t deserve to have a successful business.” As you can imagine, these two parts don’t mix well and actually can react to cancel each other out.

To help you get rid of those limiting beliefs, I recommend doing some personal work. You want to heal those feelings of not being deserving. To do this, you can try EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique or Tapping), hypnosis, or other types of energetic healing. I’ve been doing this kind of personal development work for years to help me get me where I am today.

There’s a great book by Marianne Williamson called A Course in Weight Loss that can be very helpful. I haven’t actually used it for weight loss but for working through limiting beliefs and other personal development opportunities. She has lots of exercises that you can do with journaling that help tremendously. She touches on shame, people you haven’t forgiven, people you feel judged by and things like that which I found very, very helpful for letting go of limiting beliefs.

So, when you have bursts of excitement about new opportunities coming your way and they are followed by cancellations or people falling away for whatever reason, take the time to look within. Sometimes it’s just that kind of week. But other times, if you do the work, you will uncover limiting beliefs that hold you back from the success you crave and deserve. If this happens, don’t feel badly. Discovering what prevents you from attracting clients and finding success is the best way of working through it.

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If you are encountering these types of starts and stops in your business, I also recommend making a big list of all your beliefs and feelings. Write down everything that comes to mind about not deserving or being worthy of a solid business or anything you want in life. Get it all out so you know what you are dealing with and can start to let it go.