Limiting Beliefs: Five Ways to Combat Them

“I’m not good enough”. How many times have you heard someone say these words? According to Iftikhar Nadeem, Professional Certified Coach, this can be a huge road block in their path to reaching the goals they intended on achieving. Self-doubt destroys the mind and soul, it affects your energy, and prevents you from functioning at your highest level of consciousness. 

But what else can you do on a daily basis to combat that limiting-belief cloud hovering over your head? Here are his five tips: 

  1. Breathe– try incorporating deep breathing techniques for few minutesevery day. The power of deep breathing exercises is extraordinary. Remember, you can’t beat stress right out, but you can manage it. Stress is greatly reduced through deep breathing, and the clarity you gain from deep breathing is just the icing on the cake. 
  2. Stop seeking validation– it is good to ask opinions when needed, but having the need to constantly requiring others opinions for every decision that you make can weaken the faith you have in yourself. Be confident in your decisions, there’s a reason why you are the one in charge of it in the first place. Realizing this can be very empowering.
  3. Give yourself credit where it’s due– know your worth. You matter. Be kind to yourself. Focus on the present. If you keep telling yourself you can’t do something, this only distracts you from the task at hand. And once you’re distracted, you’ll not be able to put your most valuable resource (your energy) to productive use.
  4. Follow your instinct– spending too much time deciding whether to choose one option or the other can clog your brain. Often our first reactions are best, since it usually comes with a sense of conscious reasoning, rather than your ego.
  5. Talk to someone– whether a close friend, an experienced Executive Coach, or just someone youtrust. Talking to someone you trust can relieve the negative tensions you’re carrying around and can feel like coming up for a breath of fresh air. Surround yourself with a positive supper system, who will lift your spirits but be realistic with you at the same time. 

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