Skip to main content

How To Cultivate Empowering Beliefs And Prosper As An Entrepreneur

 


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.

 

 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

4 Jobs That Help You Earn Money Online From Home Without Investment

With the growing reach of the internet more Indians are looking for work from home jobs in India . There are many more job portals and boards where Indians can get online jobs without investment and registration fees.   There are plenty of reasons for Indian women to work at home. Whether it involves spending more time with their kids, enjoying greater flexibility in their work schedule or avoiding from office politics, getting started is the tricky part. There are many companies that hire employees for online jobs in India without investment. Since numerous real work-at-home job opportunities are available on the internet, you can search for and select the most suitable job for you. By selecting a real work at home job you can enjoy the freedom and flexibility of working at home and at convenient times for you. You can work as a freelancer or you can join as a part-time employee of a company. Although there are quite a few legitimate work-at-home opportu...

How To Make Sure That Retirement Doesn’t Kill You

Retirement is something that many of us spend half our lives looking forward to. The idea of finally being able to say goodbye to long work hours and spend our time the way we want it is massively appealing. But then comes the reality. And for many people, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Retirement can often be followed by a sense of loss – loss of purpose, loss of responsibility and loss of importance. This can be a painful transition in some cases and many people will even find that they end up having something of an existential crisis. But even if you don’t feel that way psychologically, what it does to your body can sometimes be devastating. The problem is that you don’t just lose that focus and purpose – you lose the excuse to go out and socialize more often and you lose the socialization. Combined, this can eventually lead you to stop challenging your brain and pushing your body as regularly; which is when old age and deterioration can really start to...

A Short History Of Solar Energy

Planning to go off-the-grid with a residential  solar energy system  in your home? To fully understand more about solar and  renewable energy , and what the future holds for it, it’s good to learn more about the history of solar energy. This article delves deeper into solar energy’s fascinating history. Solar Energy Down The Ages One of the more common and more popular roles that the sun, or solar energy played during those ancient times is that of a force able to sustain life based on its ability to provide an endless source of energy. This is probably the reason why people of those times, especially in native South and North America, as well as in other parts of the world, worshipped the Sun. The a ncient Greeks built temples devoted to worshipping their sun deities, namely, Helio and Apollo. Also, the Greek’s use of solar energy was not limited to religious purposes, as they even used solar energy systems to incorporate pass...