Earlier this week, I posted this on Instagram and my Facebook page:
𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝟰 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵𝘀, 𝟭 𝗹𝗶𝗲 🙂
Below are five things about me. Four of them are true, one is a lie.
Can you guess which one is the lie????
#1 I love watching The Circle on Netflix
#2 I hitchhiked to the south of France and back (from The Netherlands) with my then boyfriend in my early twenties
#3 About 5 years back, I just couldn’t stand the taste of booze anymore.
Haven’t touched a drop since, even though I used to chug it down like a fish for years. :-))
#4 I once spent a couple of hours in a police cell
#5 I worked parttime in a shoe store when I was 19
Can you spot the lie??!!???
Only one person guessed right, but she knows me REALLY well. The other guesses were all wrong.
Some people motivated their choice. One person, for example, said she thought #1 was a lie, because she didn’t picture me as someone who likes reality shows.
(Maybe I am, maybe I’m not. You’ll know when you see what the lie is at the bottom of this article. 🙂 )
We all have ideas and judgments about others.
But that’s not what I want to address in this article.
I want to address the ideas you have about yourself.
Because I SO often see how my clients limit themselves as a result of their thoughts about themselves.
One of my clients struggled with making more money because she didn’t think she wasn’t good at managing her money.
She unconsciously stopped herself from receiving more, because she didn’t think she’d be able to handle it well.
Another client struggled to write her first book, because she didn’t think she was a good enough writer.
She received plenty of compliments for her blogs, but she didn’t believe them—she thought people were just being polite.
I can give you numerous other examples, but I think you get the idea:
What you believe to be true about yourself can severely limit you.
And your experiences and results can’t change unless the ideas you have about yourself have changed.
Another way your beliefs can limit you, is by what you think you need to do or change to get something you want.
If this is something you don’t want to do or change, you won’t even try to get something you want.
I see this sometimes in my current work, helping people shift into higher consciousness so they can finally find the freedom, flow and ease they’ve always searched for.
People have many (unconscious) ideas about what it takes to make this shift.
Some are afraid you’ll have to give up things you enjoy, like drinking wine or watching romcoms.
Others think you’ll become detached from others and maybe even lose friends over this shift.
None of that is true.
If you feel called to make this shift, you are ready for it. Your current situation is ideal for it. And who you are right now is exactly who you need to be.
So how do you know if your current beliefs limit you?
It’s easy.
👉 Do you feel at home in your life, your business and yourself?
👉 Are you living exactly as you’d like to live?
👉 Are you doing what you love to do?
If your answer to one of these questions is ‘no’, you have some stories and conditioning that are in your way.
The good news is this:
To make this shift into higher consciousness and find the freedom, flow and ease you’ve always searched for, you DON’T have to know what your beliefs are.
And you don’t have to actively work on changing your beliefs.
All you have to do is step out of your mind and leave your thoughts and stories alone. Whatever thoughts and beliefs no longer serve you, will drop automatically.
If you’re not sure how, I can help.
Oh, and remember that 4-truths-1-lie game I mentioned at the beginning?
#5 is the lie. I’ve never worked in a shoe store. 🙂
To your ever-expanding freedom,
Love,
