Limiting Beliefs and Interpretations

Limiting beliefs are generalizations, stereotypes or ideas that we learned and accepted about ourselves, about the world, or about other people. Just by believing them, we do not think, do or say the things that they inhibit and therefore may not reach our full potential in taking on new endeavors or in getting the best results from the ones we do take on. Interpretations are stories, opinions or judgments that we create our own selves about events, situations, persons or experiences and believe them to be true.

Here are a few examples:

  • If you are not married by the time you are 35 years old you never will be.

  • Only the young are able to go to the gym and get in shape.

  • Only a person that is creative/analytical/mathematical/good at selling can be an entrepreneur.

  • What is meant to be will happen.

  • I can’t do anything else career wise - I’m pigeon-holed in banking. This is all I know.0’s

  • He didn’t say hello back to me and therefore must not like me at all.

  • You have to work hard and burn the midnight oil to be successful.

  • Cloudy, grey, cold days reduce productivity.

For any of the statements above, they may either be just false or subject to interpretation. When we have limiting beliefs and interpretations, our ability to make positive change is nipped in the bud as we don’t even take the chance to explore all of the opportunities in front of us. If you feel you are not in a career or place in life that you would like to be, contact Fielding for discussions and analyses of your limiting beliefs and interpretations and move your life forward, up to the next level. We are all unlimited. The only limit to our own success and growth is our own thinking.