In most personal growth seminars, there is a strong focus on uncovering the limiting beliefs and mindsets that stop us from having or accomplishing what we desire. Here we examine various beliefs resulting in a scarcity state of mind: I’m not enough; there isn’t enough; I don’t have what it takes, etc.

We’ve all heard them; we all have them to some degree. One major clue to our development at this level is our answer to the question: do we have these limiting beliefs, or do they have us?

But something else can keep us stuck: success. Once we become successful or competent in a certain field of endeavor, the tendency is to form fixed ideas about how something should be done. From one perspective we are correct. After all, we can point to past results as a positive demonstration.

However, when these beliefs, which have now become our strategies for success, become fixed, we vigorously defend them and these strategies become our new wall or boundary. Strategies that served us in the past, indeed may no longer be fully welcome or effective in our new circumstance or condition.

This scenario gives rise to statements that sound something like, “My life is great just the way it is. I see no reason to change,” or, “I certainly don’t see a need to attend that seminar. That’s for people with problems!”

We’ve heard these as well. Enjoy the success you have created! But if it is true that we are either growing or decaying, then stability can simply be a form of slow decay. And the strategies and methods that generated our success can become the hurdle to overcome that allows us to grow into even greater possibilities.

Dan Dorr
Personal Mastery Facilitator
Leadership Training