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Empowering childhood = confident adulthood

If people maintain the belief systems that
empower them, they will come back with
enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually
– Anthony Robbins

As a Life and performance coach, I have observed that one of the things that
stop people from creating a life that they want are their beliefs or rather limiting
beliefs. You may have noticed that the key difference between confident and ‘not
so’ confident people are the beliefs that they hold or things they believe in-whether
their beliefs are powerful and empowering or are limiting.
Let us try and understand more about beliefs. Here are some definitions:

Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion

Assumptions and convictions that are held to be true, by an individual or a group, regarding
concepts, events, people, and things.

The story of an elephant and the rope is a classic example of limiting belief.
When an elephant is a baby, the keeper ties the baby elephant with a
strong rope to a tree. Of course,
the free-spirited, uninhibited baby
elephant tries to escape but is held
back by the rope. After a while,
the baby elephant is exhausted
by its futile efforts. It believes
that there is no hope. The hope-
lessness and learned helplessness
stay in the elephant’s uncon-
scious mind even when it grows
into an adult. Even when the
adult elephant can snap the

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