Hacking your beliefs
View this email in your browser (|ARCHIVE|) "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." —Marcus Aurelius One of the biggest lies we tell ourselves is that success is determined by the accumulation of things that have numbers attached to them.
Whether that’s money and assets, a client roster or even something less substantial, such as social-media followers, these are all data points on the Accomplishment Scale.
Sure, you need to accomplish things to have a functioning business. But that’s not success. Not even close.
The problem with accomplishments is that we have to measure them.
We use numbers and we assume that this also assigns a complete sense of meaning and value to things.
This is self limiting.
All you can do with a thing that you have to measure is either have more of it or less. Yes, there are times when this is important. Like, say when you’re meeting with your accountant or making decisions on how best to grow your business.
But if accomplishment is all you have governing your life, you’ll either suffer from feeling you haven’t done enough, or you’ll suffer from the fear that you’re losing what you have. You’re never static.
Belief is different. We’re the only living thing on this planet that comes hard-wired with this asset.
Unlike accomplishment, a belief is either there or it’s not. It’s a matter of choice. It’s really hard to just believe a little or a lot in something.
I like what Tony Robbins says about this: “Belief is the filter through which we experience everything.” There’s both a caution and opportunity in that observation: choose the wrong belief and you’re dooming yourself to misfortune. Choose the right one and gain a life that is jam-packed with happiness.
If we’re clever, we can hack that operating system in our brains and make belief work better for us.
Do an inventory of your life.
In one column, identify where you are suffering and in the second, identify where you feel grateful. Of the beliefs that govern what you've put into these columns, which ones are hurting you? Let those go. Make the choice instead to adopt new beliefs that help you grow towards having a deeper sense of fulfillment.
Success is a matter of how you take accomplishments—no matter how many—and filter them through your beliefs.
What emerges from this is your truth.
This is not hard to do.
Very best, Patrick
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