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What Are Your Self-Limiting Beliefs?

Aman
6 min readDec 3, 2019

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I do not have the time to exercise.

I am simply too old.

I am too busy to go back to school.

I do not have the time for a relationship right now.

I am simply too poor.

I do not have enough money to start my own business.

I am simply not good enough.

I was not meant to be a leader.

Self-limiting beliefs are assumptions or ideas you have transformed into facts about your capabilities for success.

How we were raised can have a lot to do with how far we go in life.

A lot of who you are comes from how you were raised and whether or not you were given positive or negative forms of affirmation. The self-limiting beliefs taught or emulated to us in childhood become very much engrained into us and it can be very difficult, even with clear proof that they are false, to discount.

Self-limiting beliefs are so powerful that you can live your whole life finding examples or situations which validate and concretize your self-limiting beliefs. When you come across a situation or experience which challenges your self-limiting…

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Written by Aman

I write about issues that are near and dear to my heart, with the hope that my stories, experiences, and struggles may empower others.

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