BE SURE TO REALITY CHECK!

How do you live large and think bigger, yet still make realisable day-to-day choices?

As you expand your beliefs, you will probably find it necessary to give yourself frequent reality checks in order to make sure you’ve chosen expanding beliefs that can truly work for you. 

The key to determining this is how you feel when you choose a particular belief. If you choose a belief and, instead of it firing you up, it leaves you flat or feeling as if it should have a question mark after it, then you are not yet ready for that expanding belief.

If you choose one that sounds like an affirmation – “I am abundant and powerful”, “I am free of pain”, or “I am attracting the life of my dreams” – you have probably picked something that you wish were true, but will require some action before it is close enough to your true circumstances to make you feel excited about the possibilities and have a transforming effect.

As you choose an expanding belief, you should look for yourself to be excited and maybe even a bit afraid of its impact – those feelings confirm that you’ve found one that is true for you.

When you pick the belief, it may feel contrived, so you need to avoid making a quick judgement. Keep in mind that one by-product of having a limiting belief is that they protect us from change, which can be terrifying for some people.

It’s normal to return to a limiting belief when we focus on making an expanding belief a reality. Be sure to not run away! Stay put and stay true to what you know lights you up inside. 

To make an expanding belief real, choose something that could be true in your life now, even if it is not yet a reality. If all that is required to make it a reality is to put focus and effort toward it, you’ve found the expanding belief that can cause a change in the action you take.

And that is exactly what your looking for.

Expanding beliefs help you uncover your true desires and form them into beliefs you can create evidence for. An expanding belief is always just real enough to warrant the right evidence. Imagination certainly comes into play, yet the thoughts remain ungrounded in reality.  You might want to become a millionaire, but if doing so is really far-fetched, your belief will become a hollow wish for something outside of what is organically available to you at the moment.

An expanding belief is not a wish or a goal. It is a lightning rod held out in front of you to attract evidence that will cause you to change the actions you take. You don’t have to give up your desire to become a millionaire, but an expanding belief needs to be rooted close to your present circumstances and resources in order to work easily and well and help you get on the path that may eventually lead you to make such a wish a possibility.

Instead of forcing, “I can be a millionaire”, put forward, “I deserve to be financially independent”. You will be able to collect evidence and take action much more easily on that one.

Expanding beliefs are yours to hold.

It’s your job to name them and choose to put them into effect.

The coaching exercise in the next LYBL activity is a good first step.

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