30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

one of us sees the world through the
lenses of their own beliefs.
Does this sound like hocus-pocus to
you? It did to me too until I studied two semesters of Psychology at
my High School and learned about the 
Placebo Effect, The
Pygmalion Effect, and Self-Fulfilling prophecies
. Studies on
these subjects out there show how powerful our thoughts and beliefs
really are! But what is a belief? It’s the conscious and unconscious
information that we accept as true. Robert Dilts defines beliefs as
judgments and assessments about ourselves, others, and the world
around us. A belief is a habitual thought pattern. Once a person
believes something is true (whether it’s true or not), he or she acts
as if it were—collecting facts to prove the belief even if it’s false.

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Beliefs are like a self-fulfilling prophecy. They work like this: 
your
beliefs influence your emotions, your emotions influence your
actions and your actions influence your RESULTS!
Depending
on your belief system, you live your life one way or another.
I want you to realize that life doesn’t just happen to you!
It’s a
reflection of your beliefs, thoughts, and expectations. If you want to
change your life, you have to first change your patterns of thinking.
Even if beliefs come from early childhood programming for most of
us, we are able to change them. 
Nobody can impose your beliefs
on you.
It’s always you who in the last instance can permit a belief
to be true for you or not! Believing in yourself is an attitude. It’s a
choice! Remember what Henry Ford said! If you think that you won’t
make it, if you think that it’s impossible, then you will not achieve it,
even if your effort is huge. For many decades, it was thought
impossible that man could run a mile under four minutes. There were
even scientific papers and studies on the subject. These studies
could all be shredded on 6 May 1954, when Roger Bannister proved
everybody wrong at a race in Oxford. From then on, over a 1,000
people have done it.