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One of the biggest considerations in achieving all that you want to achieve, actually being, doing and having all of your goals and aspirations is knowing why you want them. Once you know why you can restructure your beliefs about them, no matter how big the goal or the desired outcome.
Beliefs are astronomically stronger than desires. You probably should read that again — Beliefs are astronomically stronger than desires! Your why is directly proportional to your beliefs — the stronger the why the more you will work on ensuring that your beliefs will empower you to achieve.
As we all know our beliefs are learned, we are not born with them. Our parents, society and the people within our circle of influence instilled them upon us. As a result we can re-learn our old beliefs or we can learn new ones - that’s a fact. Our beliefs have a large controlling influence on our sub-conscious mind, and our sub-conscious mind is responsible for 96 - 98% of our daily thoughts and activities.
Our brain has a filter — sort of like a noise de-limiter that you would put into a car stereo to eliminate the interference from the other electrical components. The filter for our brain takes our thoughts and impulses that our senses pick up and deliver them to the appropriate parts of the brain. That filter depends on our beliefs to know where most of these signals need to go and filters out the ones that do not fit within the structure.
This then stands to reason that even if we really want to earn a million dollars, but really do not believe that we will or can then we won’t. We could have a million dollar idea hit our thought process and never act upon it because the filter in our brain checked the belief about being a millionaire, realized that we don’t believe in that so the filter discarded the thought entirely, putting it back into the universe for someone else to find.
Developing your why about earning a million dollars will assist you in developing and changing your belief about it. A purpose, what you will do with the money, what you would purchase, who you would help and having an outcome bigger than you will allow you to believe that you can achieve.
