One huge thing holding you back
Steve Sapato
I train people how to impact and engage an audience. Leaders need to excel at speaking and presentations. I show them how to be great. That's what I do.
If you fight for your limitations you get to keep them.
What does that mean?
May I tell you a story?
I was 60 years old and the manager of my club heard me say- 'I'm not good with my hands'.
HERE'S HOW THAT WENT SUMMERIZED:
Kim: Why do you say you are not good with your hands?
Me: Because I'm not.
Kim: How many businesses have you owned?
Me: 5. An ice cream store, a sporting goods store, a residential burglar alarm shop, a residential appraisal company and this one, a nightclub & banquet hall. Why?
Kim: What did you do at these?
Me: Made ice cream from scratch proud of my own flavor mixes. In my sport store, strung racquets, customized ski boots, fixed gold clubs, strung tennis and racquetball racquets. Installed and fixed burglar alarms.
Why?
Kim: And when there was a problem who fixed it.
Me: Well, we were almost always under the gun financially so I did everything until I couldn't then we squeezed out some money for a pro.
Kim: so did you fix plumbing? install flooring? Repair walls? Fix roofs? Put in a whole new bar and removed the old one? Plus all of the other things that came with those businesses?
Me: Yes
Kim: Then why do you keep telling people you are not good with your hands when you have done all of those things?
Oh my my my! Great question wasn't it?
And here is what I learned. I was HOLDING ONTO my own limitations and they were truly holding me back because as things would come up I would use- I am not good with my hands - as an excuse and the first negative comment coming into my mind.
Are you holding yourself back with at least one overpowering negative impression of yourself?
The ONE HUGE THING holding you back is what you are holding onto. If you keep repeating the same limitation you will keep holding onto it. And it will keep holding you back!
Now that you might have a glimpse of that what will you do to overcome it?
First is recognizing how you are limiting yourself in every area of your life.
You:
I suck at relationships
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I'm not good at ...
I can't ...
I am afraid of ...
I always fail at ..
But here is what we don't know.
We don't know what we don't know! SURPRISE!
How will you find out what you don't know? When you surround yourself with people who will see your weaknesses and shortcomings and either jump in to help or share with you ways you might not have thought of to help you.
You are the conglomerate of the five people you surround yourself with.
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