The Real Reason you Can't Reach Your Goals: Introduction to Inner Blocks
Rebecca Babcock Coaching in partnership with Institute for Professional Excellence (iPEC)

The Real Reason you Can't Reach Your Goals: Introduction to Inner Blocks

If you’re not achieving something that you want, chances are, it’s an inner block that’s holding the energy required for your success. There is such a thing as "external blocks" but they are actually quite rare. So, basically YOU are holding YOU back. Let me explain:

You can think of that emotional baggage holding you back as being packed in four kinds of suitcases - the “Big 4” energy or inner blocks that we carry around with us that dictate how we see the world and that hold us back reaching our unlimited potential.

The first suitcase contains your limiting beliefs. Beliefs can either help you or hinder you; limiting beliefs are those that hold you back from success. If you do not believe something is possible, you’re not likely to attempt it. Even if you do attempt it, you won’t devote much energy to achieving that goal.

Limiting beliefs are general beliefs about the world, your environment and situation, and the people around you that stand in your way.  

More often than not, you accept a limiting belief as true because you’ve learned it from someone else, or from an “authority,” such as the media, a book, or a movie. You assume that it’s “just the way it is.”

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Here is a classic example of a limiting belief: Up until 1954, it was commonly held that running a mile in under four minutes was impossible. Moreover, physiologists believed it was extremely dangerous even to attempt it. Yet on May 6 of that year, Roger Bannister crossed the finish line in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds, thereby disproving the myth forever. It required Bannister completely ignoring this belief, and once he disproved the presumed limits of the human body, less than two months later, another runner, John Landy, broke Bannister’s record with a 3 minutes and 57.9 seconds minute mile. Within a few years, dozens of runners were leaving the four-minute mark in the dust.

 Here are a couple of common limiting beliefs that hold many of us back.

  • How about you have to work really hard to achieve success?
  • Or that successful people are lucky?
  • Or that you have to have money to make money?

Good news: this internal block is easily challenged, and once you overcome limiting beliefs, they can no longer hold you back.

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Ask yourself this series of remarkably easy and powerful questions:

"Is that (belief) true?"

"Is it absolutely true?!"

If the answer is yes, it is an external block that perhaps you have the opportunity to be the first to break through it.

If the answer is no, it is not true, what is stopping you?

Instead of believing that limiting belief:

  • Explore the effect the belief has had on your life
  • Look for proof of its truth (or lack of proof),
  • Modify the belief or aspects of the belief to better serve you.
  • Simply examine the belief with questions like “How true do I believe that is?” and the rhetorical “Where did I get that idea?”

This week, think about examining the contents of your "limiting beliefs" suitcase. Unpack it, and see how much lighter you feel. Having trouble? Let's chat. Click here to book a free 15-minute session with me and discover The Babcock Method, a proven system for insuring you reach your potential every time.

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In the next newsletter we’ll continue with the next of the Big 4, the Interpretations we make and how they hold us back from reaching our goals. 

 

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