What are the lies and misconceptions you have that hold you back?

By the way, before you get your feathers ruffled or get offended, it’s not just you, we all have lies and misconceptions that we believe to be truths.

Lies and misconceptions come with the territory. They’re passed down generationally, often to protect, but sometimes to control behavior. The problem is that they’re really sticky; they become ingrained in you until you begin to believe that they’re your own beliefs and ideas, but they never were.

You’ll hear the lies and misconceptions in your language when you say or even think statements such as ‘this is just who I am,’ ‘it’s too late for me to try,’ and many more. When you say or think this way all you’re doing is reinforcing the lie and misconception.

The reason people live with some degree of self-reinforcing lies and misconceptions is that admitting they could possibly change is scary. It would mean having to abandon a part of them that has allowed them to survive for however long they’ve been alive.

Ridding yourself of lies and misconceptions is not easy and takes a lot of work, and of course, is not necessary. But if you really feel that there are things in life that you want to accomplish and your current set of world views will prevent you from doing so, then doing the work to remove what’s holding you back might just be worth it.

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