Let me ask you a quick question: do you think that you can? What I mean by this statement is this: whatever it is you wish to accomplish in life, do you really believe you can do it? Just think about this question for a few moments before reading on.
It turns out to be an excellent question to do some solid thinking about, because if you do believe you can achieve your goals, then it is just possible that your goals may not be stretching you enough. On the other hand, if you don’t believe you can achieve your goals, or you at least have some doubts about your ability to achieve them, then at least it shows that you are thinking big.
So, this question really raises two issues for further consideration: firstly, are your goals big enough? Are they big enough to get you excited, interested and engaged in the necessary life-transforming activity that will ensure they do actually come to pass? Secondly, if your goals are big enough, are they believable enough: in other words, can you accept that you can do it, by the application of persistent effort?
This article is really for those who do have some doubt about their ability to achieve their goals. So let’s now go a step further. If you don’t believe you can achieve your goals, what do you need to do? Again, this brings up two possibilities: either you need to change your goals or you need to change yourself, that is, to change your belief about what is possible for you.
You may not realise it, but your ability to perform depends, to a very large extent, upon what you believe it is possible for you to achieve.
Consider the story of the 4 Minute Mile for a moment. Before Roger Bannister ran the mile in just under 4 minutes, it was widely believed in sporting circles that it was impossible for the human body to do it! But when Bannister proved to everyone that the feat was not impossible – just very difficult – he really did open the door for all those other athletes that also ran the mile in less than 4 minutes.
Within a couple of months of the original event, which was held at Oxford in 1954, the Australian athlete John Landy also ran the mile in less than 4 minutes. This, despite the fact that he had also believed that the feat would not be accomplished that year; a fact he revealed during the 50th anniversary celebrations of the original achievement.
Many have conjectured that actually seeing Roger Bannister’s demonstration that the sub-4-minute mile was possible was the catalyst for John Landy’s achievement. There is a great deal of difference between ‘difficult’ and ‘impossible’.
And exactly the same is also true for you and me!
If you have never before considered the effect of self-limiting belief, now is the time to do so. Self-limiting beliefs have the power to, seriously, hold you right where you are; and when you can learn to identify your beliefs about your own ability and then to challenge them, you are on the road to significant improvement.
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