MLM Success Secret - Limiting Beliefs - The Dream Killers

Years ago I heard two stories that have and are having a profound effect on my life. Both are related to training and both are pictures of how limiting beliefs can stop us of achieving greatness.

It is said that when an elephant is young it is tied to a huge post; one much bigger than necessary to keep the animal from breaking free. As the elephant tries and tries to break free day after day it finally gives up. The elephant is conditioned to believe it cannot escape. As it grows, the post it is tied to becomes no match for the elephant’s mighty strength, however because of its conditioning it doesn’t even try to break free.

The second story was told by Zig Ziglar. I heard it years ago, so Zig, don’t take offense if I don’t tell it exactly right. In an experiment, fleas were placed in a jar with cellophane placed over its mouth. An air supply was provided. When first placed in the jar, the fleas jump and jumped hitting the cellophane at the mouth of the jar. They tried and tried until one day they no longer jumped that high. I guess they were getting tired of hitting there heads against the cellophane! Do fleas have heads? Eventually the cellophane was taken away and not one of the fleas tried to escape. Why? They gave up because they were conditioned to believe that they could not get out.

We also, since our birth, were conditioned and this conditioning formed beliefs within us. And many of these beliefs are LIMITING! Let’s say you came from a family with below average income. You saw your father and mother struggle from pay check to pay check to make ends meet. Over time you may have formed a belief that everyone in your family has to live this way because no one in your family tree ever became rich.

Then one day you had a dream of having your own network marketing company and becoming a millionaire. The dream is real and wonderful, but for some reason you go from program to program failing time and time again. You blame everyone and everything. However, the problem may be your limiting beliefs. You may say, I believe I can be a millionaire! But inwardly, deep down, there is the hidden limiting belief that says you can’t. What we want to believe and our limiting beliefs cannot dwell together. They create conflict.

In order for a new belief to take hold, we must dig up the limiting belief, feel its pain and let go of it! One way to do this is to write it out on a piece of paper. Make sure you feel the pain of the limiting belief that is holding you back. Then write out the new belief on a separate piece of paper; one that empowers and excites you…then burn the paper with the old limiting belief. Get rid of it. Even if you have to put it through the shredder! Take the new belief and read it aloud daily. Feel the excitement and pleasure it brings you. The key word is to feel it. These rich feelings will draw the things you desire into your life, now that the conflict is gone.

Once we recognize and deal with our limiting beliefs we can form new ones that will help bring the things we truly want into our lives. I will give you one of my famous Bible stories…

There was a woman, who according to the Bible, had an issue of blood for 38 years. She went from doctor to doctor and not one could cure her of her hemorrhaging. She had a belief that only doctors could help her. Well, eventually she spent all she had to no avail. She was desperate and helpless. One day she heard about a man named Jesus who was healing all manner of sicknesses. She abandoned her old limiting belief that only doctors could save her and formed a new one, “If only I could touch the hem of His garment I will be healed.” The crowds were pressing Jesus, but that did not deter this woman’s acting according to her new belief. She crawled on the ground until she reached Jesus and touched His garment. At once she was healed and at the same time Jesus perceived power had gone out from Him.

When Jesus perceived the power released from Him, He asked, “Who touched Me?” The disciples basically said, “Are you nuts; the crowds are pressing against you!” But Jesus replied, “No, someone touched me.” At once the woman rose up and admitted that she was the one who touched him. Jesus said to her, “Your faith has made you well.” Her new belief brought her the healing she craved.

Friend, if something is stopping you from achieving your dreams, you can be sure that there is a limiting belief lurking in the depths of your being that is keeping you from reaching those dreams. Maybe it’s been there for 38 years like the hemorrhaging woman. To dig it out you may need some coaching. If you are in a good program, your sponsor should be able to help you through the use of questions.

If not, contact me and let’s see what we can do to expose those limiting beliefs and deal with them so you can attract to the things you truly want in your life.