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for your problems. This type of thinking leads inevitably to anger, frustration and 
failure. We will talk more about this later in this chapter. 
The Power of Belief 
The next law I discovered was the Law of Belief. This is the basic principle that 
underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy and metaphysics. The Law of 
Belief says that, 
“Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.” 
 
In the New Testament it says, 
“According to your faith, it is done unto you.
” In the 
Old Testament, it says, 
“As a man thinketh, in his heart (his beliefs), so is he.”
William James of Harvard wrote, 
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
The fact is that, 
“You do not believe what you see, but rather, you see what you 
already believe.”
Your deeply held beliefs form a screen of prejudices that distort 
your external reality and cause you to see things not the way 
they
are, but the way 
you
are.
The worst of all beliefs are 
self-limiting beliefs
. These are beliefs that you have 
developed through life, usually false, that cause you to believe that you are limited 
in some way. Your negative beliefs soon become habitual ways of thinking. You 
may believe that you lack intelligence, creativity, personality, the ability to speak 
publicly, the ability to earn a high income, the ability to lose weight, or the ability 
to achieve your goals. As a result of your self-limiting beliefs, you continually “sell 
yourself short,” give up easily in the pursuit of a goal, and even worse, tell other 
people around you that you lack certain qualities or abilities. Your beliefs then 

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become your realities. 
“You are not what you think you are, but what you think, 
you are.” 
In developing 
million dollar habits,
one of the most important steps you take is to 
challenge your self-limiting beliefs. You begin this process by imagining that you 
have no limitations at all. When you develop your mind to the point where you 
absolutely believe that you can do anything you put your mind to, you will find a 
way to make that belief a reality. As a result, your whole life will change. 
As we will discuss later, beliefs are the hardest things of all to change. But there is 
good news. It is that all beliefs are 
learned
. And anything that has been learned can 
be 
unlearned
. You can develop the beliefs of courage, confidence and unstoppable 
persistence that you need for great success by reprogramming your subconscious 
mind in a specific way.