The only thing holding you back is YOU, and your bullshit story as to why you can't live the life you want.
I'm so guilty of doing this. We're all guilty. We dream big dreams and then talk ourselves out of them. We think about the amazing life we want, and then come up with all of the ways it's not going to happen.
We sabotage our success before we even get out of bed in the morning.
As an entrepreneur, I struggle with my limiting beliefs and bullshit story on a daily, if not hourly, basis. I have so many reasons as to why my big dreams won't come true. Why my business won't be successful. Why I can't have a thriving coaching career that allows me to travel the world, set my own schedule and help millions of women feel alive and free!
I hated how I'd look at my Dream Board and then walk away telling myself that I was dreaming too big. That I needed to scale it back a bit. Here I am in my Dream Bigger Dream Board Group telling hundreds of people to DREAM BIGGER, and I was talking shit to myself.
I knew I needed to shift something.
I hopped on the phone with Success Coach (and a Money Mindset Coach), Kelly Atwood. Such a Boss Babe and a total Money Manifesting Mama.
Kelly helped me break down all of the bullshit I was telling myself about my business and what was keeping me stuck. Then we started talking about Empowering Beliefs, aka Affirmations.
Wait. Hold up.
I don't know about you, but Affirmations don't work for me.
I flash back to my college days of telling myself I was beautiful even though I'd gained 20 lbs and felt like a stranger in my own body. I was just staring in the mirror lying to myself and would walk away feeling even worse.
I needed something different.
Kelly and I took apart my Bullshit Stories and I wrote down what the opposite belief was for each story. I told her my fear and she said, "Ok, now what is the opposite of that, that you can believe to be true?"
It took me a while to get them right, and I've re-written since our session to feel more aligned with my new story.
So in true transparency, here are a few of my Bullshit Stories and my new Empowering Beliefs...