on the power of belief

Michael Neill (bestselling author & probably the world's foremost happy success coach) says that there are only two questions you really need to answer in terms of getting what you want:

1. What do you want?
2. What stops you?

While it really is as simple as that, there are a number of factors that can make it challenging to get "clean" answers to the "What do you want" question. Here are some of the "other factors" that I'm aware of:

• Thinking it's not OK to want what we want
• Thinking it's not possible to get what we want
• The "I don't know what I want" story
• Thinking we need to get what we want in order to be happy
• Thinking something bad will happen if we get what we want
• Thinking we'll become something bad if we get what we want
• Thinking we don't deserve what we want
• Thinking others won't approve if we get what we want

Here are some of my favourite questions for helping clarify what you really want:

• What do you want?
• How will you know you've got it?
• What would you want if you didn't have to be unhappy about not getting it?
• What would you want if you knew you couldn't fail?
• What would you want if you knew it was OK to fail?
• What would you want if you were guaranteed to get it?
• What are you afraid would happen if you got what you want?
• What are you afraid it would it mean about you if you got what you want?
• How could you make sense of the idea that you're already getting exactly what you want, that what you're getting at the moment is actually what you want?
• If there were a miracle tonight, & when you woke up tomorrow, everything was exactly as you want it to be, how would you know a miracle had occurred? What would you see, what would you hear, what would you feel, what would you believe, what would you experience that would let you know a miracle had taken place?

Once you get a really clear answer to the "What do you want?" questions, that's half the battle - when you allow yourself to want what you really want, you tap into a source of motivation & passion that will give you the energy you need to really take action & get what you want.

But there's a second part.

What stops you?

All too often (I'm talking about 90% of the time or more) the answer is "limiting beliefs".

• Limiting beliefs about what's possible in this world
• Limiting beliefs about what's possible for YOU
• Limiting beliefs about what you're worth
• Limiting beliefs about what you deserve
• Limiting beliefs about what you're capable of

Of course, there are other factors - lack of money, lack of time, lack of skill. But the person who has control over their beliefs can exert a massive influence over all of these factors.

On the other hand, if you can't control your beliefs, then your beliefs are controlling you, the results you get & the quality of your experiences in life!

The person who CAN'T control their beliefs, on the other hand, is the victim of their programming... the set of unconscious beliefs & ideas about the world that they've been learning ever since the day they were born.