Are you limiting yourself?

Are you limiting yourself?

I was working with a client recently who said "there's no way I could do [big new thing] because I'm really bad at [little thing]."

These are words I have uttered many times. For example, I told myself for years, ever since I came in last in...everything (no really, everything) during high school P.E. that there was no way I could ever run a half marathon because I was bad at running.

My limiting belief was that there was no way I could accomplish this because I was just bad at it. Full stop.

Turns out, if you take it really slowly and add mileage on incrementally, you CAN run a half marathon (and I did). And it doesn't matter how slow or fast you are, you feel amazing when it happens.

What are you holding yourself back from because of a limiting belief?

To find out, ask yourself these questions:

1) How much does your limiting belief actually matter to the outcome you're going for? Turns out that "being bad at running" didn't affect my ability to run a half marathon at all. But it sure kept me from trying for a long time.

2) What's waiting for you on the other side of a limiting belief? Is it your dream job? A risk worth taking?

3) What would it feel like to do the thing you think you can't do? Get detailed. What emotions would you feel? Where would you feel it in your body? How would you celebrate?

Then ask yourself if you truly can't or don't want to do the thing, or if you're making up limits that don't need to exist.

🤔 What have you done that you told yourself you couldn't do? I'd love to hear.