Great day everyone!!! As promised this week I am going to share with you some of those beliefs that has been passed on for so many generations and did a good job of suppressing most people’s abilities of reaching their full potential. Search your own life if you have been holding on to these kind of beliefs, learn to discard them and bring out the whole new YOU!!! If you say these empowering beliefs are not possible, then your brain would stop searching for ways that could make you better than you were, but if you would say YES these are possible, then you brain would start thinking HOW? And mind you many great things started with the question “HOW?”.
click hereWhen a thought has been introduced to you, usually it does not readily stick to your memory especially if you do not agree with the thought. But if these ideas are persistently introduced, it will slowly be etched in the memory, later into the subconscious and would get incorporated with our personality. These beliefs are very very common to all of us that you cannot almost say that it is indeed wrong.
Limiting belief : “Money is the root of all evil”
As I have discussed in the previous blog post, this belief has been inculcated in our brains ever since time immemorial. That one should not aim for money if one should want to walk the path to holiness or to be able to enter God’s kingdom. But then if money is indeed the root of all evil then why is it the center of our commerce? Why do we have to work so hard to earn it? Why do we even offer it to our places of worship?
It is hypocrisy to say, “I didn’t work for money, for it is service that I am after.” Well if it is then would you be willing to give your salary instead to those who need it most? Let us accept the fact, that if we want to survive in this competitive world we need money and I mean all of us. Money is not the root of all evil for it is designed to for the good of those who would use it. It is on how the money is used that would give the determinant as to whether it was used for the good or bad. Money does not change one’s character, it just amplifies what the person truly is. A good man with lots of money will do even better and help more people than ever, whereas an evil man with lots of money will spawn all kinds of trouble and evil deeds. Persistent belief that money is the root of all evil limits an idividual’s ability to create more money because o one wants to be associated with evil. Perhaps this is one reason why a naturally abundant Christian country like ours remains in the thirld world. It is not money that is the root of all evil, rather the LOVE/LACK of it causes all evil.
To this point, I would like to change this belief with this :Empowering belief: “I am not afraid of gaining more money for it will bring me more opportunities to do good and help more people.”
Limiting Belief: “ Rich people are bad and greedy”
Isn’t this viewpoint familiar? Eversince we’re young we see it on media presentations that rich people are portrayed as either druglords, oppressors or ganglords. Almost never that they are shown as normal individuals who also breathe, bathe and eat and that some are bad but some if not most, are also good individuals. It seems like you cannot be rich in an honest way and you really have to cheat or swindle on your way up the ladder of the rich.
If we are going to look closely into the Bible, most heroes we could find are actually rich people. Abraham was promised to be a father of generations as many as the stars in the sky and one cannot keep that many people if you do not have enough resources. King David is rich, and so is King Solomon, said to be the richest man to ever walk the earth. How come these people are very close to God despite their abundance? It is because being rich does not necessarily mean bad nor does it necessarily reflect one that is greedy. We grew up having this idea in our minds which eventually limited our potential to get rich because we consciously or unconsciously avoid getting rich. Why? Because nobody wants to be called bad or greedy. But if you have only avoided this belief and got rich, would you be bad and greedy? Most people did not..for the more they received the more grateful they are for the blessings they have received and the more people they have actually helped.
So now, we discard that thought and replace it with this: Empowering Belief: “I can be rich and spiritual at the same time.”
Limiting Belief: “Money is not important, what’s important is we’re happy”
If you had this belief, then you would not really aspire of getting money for you would think that it is not really important at all. It is true that money never hugs back, nor it could give you everything your heart would desire but if we would look closely many things in this world runs because of money. The reason you work hard is to get yourself more money to feed your family and buy you and your family things that could bring you happiness. It is not true anymore that love will keep us alive,for those who are lovestruck, for even a single stem of a rose costs so much now and you can’t possibly be happy on a date when both of you are starving. Even works of charity would need money for their cause to prosper,otherwise, they would just wither and die.Churches and temples would not stand alone with love and faith but with money too.Can you still be happy if you are dying of an illness that can be cured if only you have enough money for the treatment? In this world where nothing really is for free if one should look closely, money is a must-have commodity to keep everything up and running. Have you ever envisioned yourself having no money at all? What would your life be? Can you still be truly happy?
Now then let us not be afraid of gaining more money for: Empowering Belief: “Money is important in all areas of life”.
Limitig Belief: “No Pain, No Gain”-One must work hard to earn money
Very common isn’t it? How many times have you been scolded as a child when you have done something in an easy way rather than the usual harder way? How many times have you been called as “tamad” when you just used your brain to make things easier for you? Since childhood, we were taught to be good hardworkers, to go to school, work hard to get good grades, get a job and work hard to get a promotion and work even harder. Are we supposed to grow old to die of hard work? Or are we supposed to enjoy life as is passes by? Surely I have nothing against being industrious, but as we could see it takes more than just a sense of industry to get rich. One of the most hardworking people we know are those jeepney drivers we see everyday. Its quite hard to drive amidst the crazy traffic and undisciplined drivers and pedestrians, yet they still manage to shift gears, accept fare and give passengers their “change”, makes sure everyone gets seated and mentally keeps tab on who has paid already from the ever changing faces of passengers. Great deal of hard work right? But have you ever seen a jeepney driver rising from rags to riches because of driving his now old beaten down jeepney? Well then if hard work cannot take us there then what? Sir John(Calub) would say “work smart” instead of working hard. This is similarly true to what Robert Kiyosaki said in hid Rich Dad, Poor Dad book, that “rich people never work for money” onstead they let money work for more money. There are many ways in which one can make money for the least amount of work to do, you could invest, build business, or do networking to name a few. If you would take a closer look, all business that are successful used networking as a strategy because it multiplies a single effort into many efforts. Look at Jollibee, McDo, SM and many more, would they be successful if they have not done networking?I don’t think so. Even Jesus built a network of 12 apostles as a start so they could preach to more people than what He could personally do.
So instead we say“no pain,all gain”: Empowering Belief: “Money comes to me easily and frequently”.
click meLimiting Belief: “Wealth is Either-Or”—You cannot have everything in your life
This is also one popular belief that nobody could ever have it all in their life. When you have intelligence, then you are doomed to be dumb in love. When you have money, you relationships would be insanely wrecked. When you have lots of money, you cannot be a spiritual person.
For quite sometime we have been taught not to expect too much in life, that one must not strive to achieve success in all fields of life and sometimes even to submit to mediocrity. But why? Why can’t we have health, financial success, good relationship, spirituality and self-actualization at the same time? Is there a universal law to that? Are we doomed to choose only one? Should we have money and lose it all when health fails?
We all know that God said: “Ask and you shall receive”....that’s it.No conditions whatsoever. He did not say choose and you shall receive, thus it affirms the fact that we are in fact beings with “infinite potentials”. God wants us to prosper and He will give anything we ask for if we are ready for it. Ask, believe and He will surely give you what you have asked for.
Being rich is not synonimous with being wealthy as the former is limited only to financial success whereas the latter involves success in all areas of life: Empowering Belief: “I Can Have it All!!!”
Limiting Belief: “Knowledge is Power”
No, not really on the contrary of Mr.Ernie’s “Kung walang knowledge, walang Power”...but knowledge in itself is not power. Why not? Here’s a simple explanation to that. Looking back at our education starting when we were still young, we were taught of so many things about the world. We have learned that Li(Lithium) is the third element of the table of elements, that Au as a symbol for Gold comes from its latin name Aurum, and so many things more. We memorized many things like dates, names of people whom we never had any interest of knowing until our brains would give up from the information overload. Laurels and praise went to those who can memorize the best and could write the most correct answers and futures foretold that they will be successful when time comes. Years later, we left school either by graduation, by failure or by choice and went on to life. If you landed on the job, you will immediately know that most of the time of education were wasted memorizing things that will never ever be useful in real life.
Years more, and your high school batch decided to hold a homecoming celebration. See yourself and others. Are those consistent at the top list the most successful people now? Way more of then than yes is a big NO. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Sy....to name a few out of the many richest persons, whats their common denominator? They were not able to finish their quest for education. I did not say education is altogether useless but many within the system of our education are useless things that only fill important spaces in our memories that should have been used for things that matter.
Knowledge alone is pretty much useless if it cannot be translated into a productive action. Many great things in this world even came without their investors knowing exactly what they have created. When knowledge is put to action and tested through time thats when it becomes wisdom. And he who wields great wisdom wields great power for he knows and knows what to do to make his knowledge work for his best advantage.
Knowledge alone is not power: Empowering Belief: “Wisdom is Power”
So, till next week guys!!! Again my heartfelt thanks to Mr. John Calub for presenting to me with these ideas. pictures of prosperity above are linked to my business blog. It is by the way a sure shot business with no chance of investment failure.If you are interested, you may click on the pictures or click here
