Change Your Beliefs
Nick Williams
- You can't make money doing what you love or enjoy
- A "proper job" is permanent, pensionable, 9 to 5, five days a week, 48 weeks a year for most of your life, working for someone else
- The major purpose of work is to get approval and acceptance - to do the right thing and fit in
- Everything good is outside us and needs to be earned, deserved, struggled and worked for
- Work is and should be hard, a struggle and even a punishment
- Work must involve sacrifice - you can't have it all
- Work defines who we are - we are nothing without a good job/career
- There isn't enough -scarcity rules
- Money and financial rewards/security are the major purposes of work
- We create success by eliminating what we don't want, by getting rid of our problems
- I am not good enough - I have to earn and deserve self worth
- I am wrong or there is something wrong with me - I have to improve myself to make up my self worth
- I am bad or guilty - I have to work hard and sacrifice to pay off my guilt
- I am nothing - I have to keep proving my self worth
- I am separate - I have to make the world realise that I am special and have self worth
If beliefs like these influenced you and your working life, then perhaps it's time for change. But to be able to change your outer world of work, you may well need to start with your inner world of attitudes, beliefs and ideas. Most of us have grown up with the idea of "I'll believe that when I see it", which is tantamount to saying that when we have changed we'll believe we can change. In truth, the key to all significant life changes is to adopt the attitude of "We'll see it when we believe it" Below I have listed ten of the most helpful beliefs you can begin to adopt when you are approaching any significant career or life change:
- You can find what you love and earn money from it
- You can change your attitude and your circumstances
- Your inspiration and love can lead to paid work or a great job
- You can be authentic and real, and be successful
- The purpose of work is to find and give expression to the best of you, and work can be easy and natural
- Life supports you when you find your heart, love and passion, and the intelligence inside you will handle many of the details
- You can bring more and more of yourself to your work
- You have more creativity and resources inside you than you ever imagined
- It is safe to be successful, be your best self and shine your light
- You are good enough, have lots of gifts, skills and talents and deserve success
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