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Beliefs
The clearer you are about what you value and believe in, the
happier
and more effective you will be.
Beliefs are the assumptions we make about ourselves, about others in the world
and about how we expect things to be. Beliefs are about how we think things
really are, what we think is really true and what therefore expect as likely
consequences that will follow from our behavior.
According to Jemie Smart, an
NLP
guru, you can model beliefs as ‘feed-forward’ mechanisms that sort and filter
data in order to prove themselves to be true. Beliefs are valuable resources,
generalizations that people use to give themselves a sense of certainty and a
basis for
decision-making
in an uncertain and ambiguous world.
Values
Values are about how we have learnt to think things
ought to be or people ought to behave, especially in terms of qualities such as
honesty, integrity and openness.
What Do You Believe About Yourself?
Many of the limitations you face in life are self-imposed. What you believe
about yourself can keep you locked behind your fears or thrust you forward
into living your dreams.
"We are what we think," taught Buddha.
"Change your thinking, change your life," said Ernest Holmes.
"If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right,"
advised
Mark Twain.
You become what you believe you are. Think of
yourself as a work in progress. Actually, we all are. Identify old limiting
beliefs that may be holding you back and get rid of them...
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Great Achiever: 8 Winning Habits
Define and Prioritize Your Values
The first step is to clarify your values. You ask yourself, “What values and
virtues do I most admire and wish to incorporate in to my life?” If you want
to discover
your strengths in the work world, first you would define your values as they
apply to employment. Often, both companies and individuals will choose
values such as integrity, quality,
respect for others, service, profitability,
innovation,
entrepreneurship, and
market leadership.2
The second step is to use those values to define your position with regard
to your life and work. The values you choose, and the order of priority you
place on your choices, will determine your approach to your life and work.
Six Universal Values
Your
emotional intelligence helps you understand how emotions run your life
and the lives of those who need what you have. Your ability to master the
study of emotions is really no more then understanding the
value
systems that people have. And there are six values
that behavioral psychologists agree are fundamental to all human beings.
These six values are universal to every human being living today…and in the
past…and in the future.5
Basic
Assumptions
Basic assumptions are our long-learnt, automatic
responses and established opinions. We are, ourselves, almost always unaware of
the nature of our own basic assumptions, but they are enacted through our
behavior - what we say and do. Basic assumptions are usually rooted in our
infancy, early family life and social context. More widely, assumptions shaping
our behavior relate to cultural context
(See
East versus West: Philosophy and
Cultural Values)
Attitudes
Attitudes are the
established ways of responding to people and situations that we have learned,
based on the beliefs, values and assumptions we hold. Attitude become manifest
through our behavior.
The Power of
Positive Beliefs
You see what you believe. You attract to
yourself those experiences that match your existing belief system. Change
your thoughts to improve your life and expand your mind. Replace beliefs
that are hindering your development with positive ones that will help you.
What you create through your thoughts is a
belief system, and that belief system is ultimately what determines whether
you live a successful life. The key to changing your belief system is
changing your thoughts.
Orison Swett Marden wrote in How to Get What
You Want, "Stop thinking trouble if you want to attract its opposite;
stop thinking poverty if you wish to attract plenty. Refuse to have
anything to do with the things you fear, the things you do not want."
Instead you must think rightly about those things you want to attract. Mark
Shearon once posed a very enlightening question to a telephone audience,
"Are you thinking about what you're thinking about?" Read that sentence
again and read it carefully. It's not a play on words.
Marden goes on to write this passage about how
much our
thoughts influence the outcome of our life: "How often do we hear it
said of some man, "Everything he undertakes
succeeds," or "Everything he touches
turns to gold?" Why? Because the man is constantly
picturing to himself the success of his undertakings and he is backing
up his vision by his efforts. By clinging to
his vision, by vigorous resolution and persistent, determined endeavor he is
continually making himself a powerful magnet to draw his own to him.
Consciously or unconsciously, he is using the divine intelligence or force
by the use of which every human being may mold himself and his environment
according to the pattern in his mind."
Best Practices
Corey Rudl
Corey Rudl (1970-2005), the author of "The
Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business of the Internet", was an
Internet marketing genius and and
inspirational leader:.
Excerpts from "A Letter of Remembrance to
Corey Rudl..." By: Derek Gehl,
Internet
Marketing Center
Define your own success and live with
passion.
Corey's biggest frustration was that so
many of his clients and subscribers just let life "happen" to them. I can't
tell you how many times I heard him rant over the years, "They have
dreams... but they don't set GOALS! Why
don't they set goals and take action???"
One of the most inspirational things about
being around Corey was his belief that absolutely anyone can
be
successful.
You just had to meet Corey once to know he
wasn't just spouting the "anybody can start a profitable Internet business"
line because it sounded good. His enthusiasm... his actions... every word he
spoke demonstrated his core belief that absolutely anyone can be successful.
You can learn anything... be anything... do
anything.
If you decide that your age, background, and
education limit your potential, they will. But if you decide that you can do
anything, you will...
Corey really believed that you just need to set
goals that you're excited about, and then take persistent action.
NLP Presuppositions
NLP Technology of Achievement
The presuppositions are the central principles
central of NLP; they are its guiding philosophy, its ‘beliefs’. These
principles are called presuppositions because you pre-suppose them to be
true and then act as if they were. You then discover what happens. If you
like the results then continue to act as if they are true. They form a set
of ethical principles for life...
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Your Beliefs Have a Direct Impact on Your Health
Researchers of two American Universities found
that your beliefs have a direct impact on your body and health – because
your beliefs actually alter your body's chemical balance.4 It
really means that what you regularly think has a direct impact on your
health and your body. Because what you regularly think is what you end up
believing.
Change the way you think, you change your
beliefs and you change your life. Yes you can actually improve your life and
your body by having a positive
attitude and a
positive belief system. With that in place you'll live a healthier, longer
life...
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