Legendary coach Tony Robbins has three steps for creating lasting change:
- Raise your standards
- Change your limiting beliefs
- Change your strategy
I’d like to talk about #2: changing your limiting beliefs. In Awaken the Giant Within, Robbins talks about beliefs:
“Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what’s possible and what’s impossible, what we can and cannot do. They shape every action, every thought, and every feeling we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives. We must develop a sense of certainty that we can and will meet the new standards before we actually do.”
A tactic to changing limiting beliefs is to look at them in an empowering way.
Here’s Elvis on stage fright:
“I’ve never gotten over what they call stage fright. I go through it every show. I’m pretty concerned, I’m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don’t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it’s a new crowd out there, it’s a new audience, and they haven’t seen us before. So it’s got to be like the first time we go on.”
The “King of Rock and Roll” never got over stage fright despite performing 1,684 stage shows during his lifetime. Instead of shrinking in nervousness, he leaned into the emotion and channeled it into an empowering energy. He turned something that makes most people feel small into something that made him feel big. He even reminded his people to never get comfortable. There was a larger purpose to this — he wanted to give every new audience his best.
We can learn from “the King” by converting our limiting beliefs into empowering beliefs. We can harness the energy of our beliefs so that we feel big instead of small. By changing our beliefs, we change the way we look at the world and remove roadblocks that get in the way of who we can become.
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