What do you have to believe to show up and prosper as an entrepreneur?
Choose beliefs that make you stronger, wiser, smarter, kinder, and more
resilient.
You've decided to take the plunge and become an entrepreneur. Congratulations! Making the decision to start your own business is a big one, and it's important to commit yourself fully in order to be successful.
While business development skills are an important part of acquiring the business acumen skills needed to run a business successfully, your business mindset is just as important.
So how do you go about making sure that you show up and prosper as an entrepreneur? What do you have to believe in order to show up, serve, and prosper as an entrepreneur?
The way you think about the world shapes what it is. Your beliefs, assumptions and opinions give shape to everything around us ordering all that information in an overwhelming amount of stimulation we receive every moment.
As many self-help experts have advised us over the years, negative or limiting beliefs tend to close down possibilities, narrow the future, and put a lid on progress.
Limiting beliefs can be a major obstacle to success. They close down possibilities, narrow your future and put an end for all progress you might have made in life so far!
While it’s helpful to know how negative thoughts manifest within us, how do you cultivate positive beliefs? What are your "have-to" beliefs? These powerful words can spark a fire in us and fuel our choices.
If we know what they are, it's easier for entrepreneurs to stay proactive about their lives! Know what your "have-to" beliefs are, so that when push comes to shove, your proactive spirit can take center stage.
When you believe that something is “mandatory” for your happiness, then it becomes so. It doesn't matter what other people think or how they feel about the situation because if this belief makes us happy - our choices drop away and we become willing subordinates to whatever destiny has planned out for us next.
The idea that we must have a deep sense of purpose in order to be happy and fulfilled is not new. However, recent research has shown how this "have-to" belief can make you more resilient during difficult times as well improve your relationships with others by setting an example for them - which makes it all worthwhile.
A "have to belief" is a way of understanding that resonates so deeply with your sense of purpose, meaning, and service that you willingly embrace it and subordinate your choices to it.
A "have to belief" is one that you hold with conscious commitment and self-reflective awareness, knowing that it is a belief (not a fact) and being responsible for the ways this belief endows your life with meaning, purpose, and focus.
There is no absolute, verifiable, objective third-party system that can prove a "have to belief." Instead you learn to hold these beliefs as a skilled fencer holds a sword or a tournament tennis player a racquet: with a loose-and-tight grip that responds to both inner promptings and encounters with the physical world.
Learning to cultivate a belief is like fencing with words. You need a loose grip when contesting an idea, but not so tight that it becomes difficult for you or others in your life who doesn’t share these same thoughts as well-to get through the day believing what they do because of how much pressure people put on each other.
It's important to hold a "have-to-belief" loosely enough to remember that you do not have the right to impose your belief on anyone else. And in this loose-enough grip, there is room to question, challenge, and evolve your "have-to-belief" as you learn and grow.
"You can learn this skill by asking yourself questions such as: "How does holding onto my beliefs affect me?" And then adjust accordingly!
You don't have to believe in absolute truths; instead you can learn how hold these beliefs as if they were a tennis racket. You'll find that when your hands are loose and tight at the same time, it feels better than not holding anything at all!
At the same time, it is important to hold a "have to belief" tightly or firmly enough that it can order your experience (without closing down awareness of other possibilities) and provide emotional and spiritual sustenance.
The mind is very powerful and it can order our experience without closing down awareness of other possibilities. We should hold on tightly enough so that we are able get emotional support from this "have-to" belief, which will help in times where things seem hopeless.
So what does this have to do with being open for business and your prosperity and success as an entrepreneur? In my view, everything! Every day I encounter in myself or in my clients situations that we cannot rise to without an adequate belief system.
It is not enough to deconstruct limiting beliefs. In order to continuously craft a meaningful and functional definition of success and to chart or re-chart your course, you must become responsible for what you choose to believe and how you go about believing it.
Here are some other "have to beliefs" that show up in my work with entrepreneurs, business owners, independent professionals, and coaches. Try them on for size. Notice that what a "have to belief" does not need to quarrel with reality.
· I have to believe that people can take care of themselves, even if I sometimes think they cannot.
· I have to believe that my thriving and prosperity will not necessitate someone else's suffering, even if I sometimes think it might.
· I have to believe that being a good steward for my business will help me show up and serve.
· I have to believe that I can afford to act in my client's best interests, even when that means that I will earn less (or no) income.
· I have to believe that prosperity is attractive to the people I want to work with.
· I have to believe that there are plenty of people for whom my work is a perfect match, who can and will value my services enough to pay for them.
· I have to believe that mistakes are the compost for future success, and I know that this includes picking up after myself, and making amends for my errors.
"Have to beliefs" are beliefs you choose because they make you stronger, wiser, smarter, kinder, and more resilient. They challenge you to be bigger, more creative, and bolder. And for every "have to belief" a new world of action is revealed.
So cultivate empowering beliefs and enhance your business acumen skills to develop the strong business acumen and success mindset to show up, serve, and prosper as an entrepreneur.
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