Self-Limiting Thoughts

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.” ―Richard Bach

Have you ever caught yourself trying to one-up someone (or even yourself) when it comes to the things you CAN'T do?

🙎 friend: "It's been so hard to get motivated to workout in the mornings lately"

💁 you: "You have no idea. I physically CANNOT get out of bed to go to the gym before 7am. I'll never be a morning person. I've just accepted it!"

We tend to argue for our limitations a lot more than we argue for the things that we CAN do.

Majority of the people I've worked with were super quick to tell me the things they wouldn't be able to do, versus the things they were confident they could accomplish.

And unless they really allow their mindset to shift through some mindset work with me...they actually hold themselves back and speak their inabilities into existence. (boooooo👎)

Self-limiting thoughts can have seriously negative effects on your self-esteem. Even if it starts with one specific thing, like thinking that you can't land a job you applied for, it usually trickles into other facets of your life.

But the thing is, self-limiting thoughts are really just stories we tell ourselves. And these stories aren't written in Sharpie — aka, we CAN erase them and re-write our narratives.

What it takes is a mix of:

⏩ Catching ourselves when we're in a negative mindset and reflecting on how we feel in that moment

⏩ Reminding ourselves that our negative thoughts are NOT reality

⏩ Speaking what we CAN do into existence, even if we're not 100% confident yet

⏩ Taking full responsibility — this empowers us to change things, because nobody else can do it for us!

So if you've been telling yourself "you can't" lately...try catching yourself in the act each time moving forward, and following through with re-writing that story using the tips above.

Start watching your confidence grow and your quality of life just explode (in a good way).

♥️