Let’s say you have great ambitions.
Let’s say you want to grow your business dramatically so you can serve more people.
Let’s say you want to 4X or even 10X your company revenue over the coming few months.
Or maybe you’re in an Executive position but you’ve been ready for that next level since the day before last week.
What tends to happen as soon as these desires come into your mind is that the noisy chatter within starts reminding you how unrealistic you are:
“I’d love to do that… imagine what I could do if I had money…. I think I’d book a trip to <insert somewhere you’d love to visit>….. I’m probably being far too ambitious though… I mean, it’s not very likely is it….like, where would the business/clients/opportunities come from? It’s taken me x years to get to this level, what makes me think I could grow to that next level in a fraction of the time?’’
And on it goes.
‘You’ don’t really believe you can do it.
Yes, of course, intellectually you can see that it’s possible. But likely? Not really.
So the question to ask yourself is this – who is this ‘You’ that doesn’t believe it?
Because it’s not the real ‘You’ within – the real authentic you is the ‘you’ where the desire and ambition comes from.
The ‘You’ that doubts it, questions it, tells you to ‘get real’ – that’s actually not ‘you’ at all – it’s a program inside the real you, things you were conditioned with in your early years, beliefs you were gifted from other people (who didn’t have the kind of results you want – the clue was there).
So whilst awareness is great in that it helps you understand that these beliefs are not facts etc, the thing you really want to know is this:
“How do I change them then?”
Yes you can look at someone who has achieved those kinds of results and use that as proof that it’s possible to do it.
But there’s more to it than that – the key thing you want to do is borrow their belief.
Stay with me here.
Belief precedes results.
Results are unlikely without belief.
So what you really want to build a belief around is not the ‘10X’ results in themselves – but the belief that it’s possible.
Do you get this?
You don’t have to believe in the ‘10X’ – you have to believe that it’s possible.
Then you focus on that – I believe it’s possible. I believe it’s possible.
So in effect you’re believing the ‘belief’ that these other people have that it’s possible; if belief precedes results, then they must have believed it before they achieved it.
Read that again.
So look at the inspirational ones, and borrow their belief.
Guinevere.