Have You Reached Your Upper Limit?

By Craig Levitt – Executive Success Coach,
Craig Levitt Coaching

It’s funny the memories we retain. In High School, like everyone else I read a lot of books, you know Shakespeare etc. One I remember, don’t ask me why, was a book called The Peter Principle. It’s hypothesis was that everyone rises to their level of incompetence – why they don’t rise further is that they don’t have the capability to do so. An interesting concept.

I came across another book recently called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks which proposes that each of us has a fear that is holding us back from moving to the next level. A similar concept to the book I read as a 15 year old – yet this time raising the concept of self-sabotage as the reason why we don’t rise to our level of greatness. I prefer this version of thinking.

The proposition that it is our hidden (limiting) beliefs that hold us back is today accepted thinking.
So, what beliefs are holding you back?
Feeling not good enough?
Fear of outshining others?
Being uncomfortable with success?

Your limiting beliefs are hiding out in the areas where you’re producing results that you don’t want. Self-awareness is always the key to change. Identify your limiting beliefs and you now have the first part of YOUR road map to change. Then try these 4 steps.

1)  Identify the limiting belief

Louise Hay says: “We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.”

2)  Challenge it

The problem with limiting beliefs is that they feel like fact. When we examine the so-called facts beneath the limiting belief we find that we have blown them out of proportion and shaped them to form a false story.  When we begin to question these facts, the limiting belief begins to fall apart.

3)  Replace it

Two of the most powerful words in the world are I AM.  To form your new belief simply write out I AM ____________,  and fill in the blank with new belief.

4)  ACT as if you have already achieved it

Will your new belief take over night?  Probably not. Whatever your new belief is act as if you are already that person.  What would such a person do?

As stated it’s not going to happen overnight.  However, following these four steps you will be well on your way to identifying your limiting beliefs, challenging them, installing new empowering beliefs, and acting as if you have already achieved your desired outcome.

Craig Levitt