Divorce Yourself

Are you still listening to that nagging little voice in the back of your head? The one that tells you you're not good enough, smart enough, talented enough, skinny enough, rich enough, tall enough, handsome or pretty enough, fast enough, creative enough, happy enough, caring enough,..? Zig Ziglar referred to it as "Stinkin' Thinking."

It's the voice of self-doubt, and it's lying to you.

Doubt is a symptom of a limiting belief in yourself. It is holding you back from achieving more, becoming more, and reaching your full potential.

It's time to divorce yourself from limited thinking.

How do you do that? It starts with answering two questions.

1. Do you know WHO you really are?
2. Do you know ALL you are capable of doing?

Much of what we believe about ourselves has been told to us by those around us. Our parents, family members, teachers, and authority figures in our early, formative years spoke into our lives at a time our brain simply accepted everything people said as truth. That we were told, what we witnessed and lived through in the first 8-12 years of our lives created a belief system that shaped how we live and view the world,

If you were told that you're worthless, you won't amount to anything, you're stupid, fat, ugly, or unwanted, those words shaped your view of yourself and your potential. If you were told that because you were born a certain color, or in a certain neighborhood, or you were of a certain ethnic group you're going to be poor, victimized, lacking, or have no future, those words shaped your view of the world and your potential.

Those words, spoken into you when you were young, created that nagging little voice in the back of your head that is constantly holding you back from doing more, accomplishing more, and becoming more.

Hear this. You are only as talented, smart, rich, or successful as you want to be. The real question you must answer is how talented, smart, rich, or successful do you truly want to be?

Until the desire to become more is greater than the contentment to remain in your current situation, nothing changes for you. But when you cultivate the desire to do more, accomplish more, and become more, everything starts to change for the better.

It's time to divorce yourself from limited thinking.

Hear this. You have unlimited potential. It doesn't matter where you were born, what color your skin is, what gender you are, what ethnicity you are, whether you are dyslexic or not, whether you're tall or short, you have the potential within you to do more, accomplish more, and become more than you are right now.

Transformation is possible, and it starts with changing how you think.

Hear this again. You are only as talented, smart, rich, or successful as you want to be.

(Q) How talented, smart, rich, or successful do you truly want to be?

(Q) What are you willing to commit to in order to make that happen?

If you want to do more, accomplish more, and become more, then you have to change the way you think and act.

When you see yourself as gifted, talented, smart, creative, and successful, you create an image in your mind. And the more you focus on this image, your brain starts to see this as your new reality and shifts your thinking and behaviors to pursue this.

So let me tell you who you are.

You are whomever you choose to be. It doesn't matter where you were born or who your parents were. Your ethnicity, skin color, or gender doesn't define you or limit you. People who tell you that are lying to you. They either have their own agenda or they are acting out of their own misguided, limiting beliefs.

It doesn't matter what your family's history has been to this point. You may be poor. It doesn't matter. Your parents may be divorced. It doesn't matter. You may have a learning disability. It doesn't matter. Those are circumstances and situations that are subject to change. You CAN rise above your circumstances and situations. They don't define you or limit your potential - ONLY YOU can do that.

You are whomever you choose to be. You are as creative, smart, talented, focused, industrious, and as equipped as you want to be.

You have no limits, except the ones you choose to place on yourself.

Choose to be limitless. Choose to be exceptional.

You have unlimited access to all the tools, resources, and connections you need to do more, accomplish more, and become more. The ONLY thing that can hold you back from achieving your full potential and achieving greatness and significance in life is YOU.

You are unique, one-of-a-kind. There is no one else like you in the entire universe. You were put on this earth on purpose, for a purpose, that only you can fulfill. The only limits to what you can do, what you can achieve, are the limits you place on yourself. You can learn anything you want to learn. Do anything you want to do. Be anything you want to be.

You can be as successful as you choose to be.

Your present circumstances and the situation you find yourself in do not define you. Circumstances and situations are subject to change, and you are a change-maker. You can change your circumstances and situation for the better. You have all the confidence within you that you will ever need to accomplish your goals, dreams, and achieve success.

You have only to start acting on what is already within you.

See yourself successful, and start taking the corresponding actions. Reshaping your thoughts reshapes your beliefs. It replaces that nagging, whispering, lying little voice in the back of your head saying that you are not enough with a roaring, booming, cry from the depths of who you truly are that says you are more than enough.

People around you who have settled for the status quo existence they find themselves in and are resigned to blaming everything and everyone for their lot in life may think you are crazy for thinking and acting differently. That's OK. They're still listening to that whispering, lying voice in the back of their heads that you have silenced.

Don't let them dissuade, discourage, or distract you.

You are only as talented, smart, rich, or successful as you want to be. The real question you must answer is how talented, smart, rich, or successful do you truly want to be?

Divorce yourself from being content with the status quo.

Divorce yourself from limited thinking.

Divorce yourself from doubt.

Let me leave you with this...

I believe there is a Black Belt Leader Within each and every one of us, waiting to be discovered, developed, and deployed. You CAN become a Black Belt Master at whatever you choose to do. But it starts with creating an abundance-focused Black Belt Mindset that opens up the limitless opportunities that have always been there, waiting on you to take the blinders off your eyes to see and seize them - and live a life of Black Belt Excellence.

You can be as successful as you choose to be.

You have only to start acting on what is already within you.

Your limitless future awaits.

2X martial arts Hall of Fame inductee, John Terry (The Black Belt Leader) is passionate about helping others become Black Belt Leaders in Life. He is a motivational speaker, leadership, sales & communication coach, and trainer.???

Jessie Terry, John's daughter, is a Certified Speaker, Coach, and Trainer with the?John Maxwell Team?and is actively involved in the JMT Global Youth Initiative. She is also a Real-Life Management trained coach and a certified Women-Safe Self-Defense Instructor and the author of several children's books.

For more information, schedule John (or Jessie) to speak to your organization or to book a personal, group, or corporate coaching session, visit our website at?www.beablackbeltleader.com.??

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Why just be a leader, when you can be a Black Belt Leader?