Self Limiting Beliefs Can Eat You Alive

I recently read a newsletter by Howard Ruff in which he described the crocodile attack that claimed the most human lives. It happend on February 19, 1945 when a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army was guarding a stronghold on the Burmese island of Ramree and was outmaneuvered by a British Naval force. To escape, the soldiers had to cross 10 miles of crocodile infested mangrove swamps. Of the original 1,000 Japanese soldiers, only 20 survived.

After reading this story, I was dumb founded. And I began wondering about the crocodile infested mangrove swamps that exist in our daily lives. In order to achieve the success we're after in our lives, what are the crocodile like challenges we must equip ourselves to overcome?

I'd like to suggest that self limiting beliefs are in fact the biggest and the baddest of the reptilian monsters in our lives. That's because they lurk in our minds. They are thoughts that do not serve us, but yet we often find ourselves unable to escape. The average person has about 60,000 thoughts per day and I'll bet that thousand upon thousand of them fall into this category. And few of us even realize we're doing this to ourselves.

So what does it take then to be successful? Well, what did it take for the 20 surviving soldiers to successfully navigate their way across the mangroves?

To overcome the crocodiles, it's necessary to start from the end. Be larger than yourself in terms of vision and goals, trust in the magic of your belief, and then follow-through with unwavering persistence. There is a magical moment when you finally really, really believe in what is possible for yourself and what you are able to achieve - well beyond what you may have previously considered.

So often, this is exactly what you experience with breakthrough success in a new venture (be it a home business, a new project, venture or otherwise). You started out doing what you knew you had to do because you saw an opportunity so attractive and because there may have been process that seemed logical to you.

But the tipping point comes when as the results begin manifesting, you are finally able to believe completely in what you can do and those lingering doubts vanish. You can see the progress you are making towards your goals and you create a vision larger than yourself that you believe unequivocally - and that is when everything explodes exponentially.

Imagine how impenetrable those soldiers' belief in their ability to cross the swamps must have been and the degree of doubt they had to overcome in order for them to survive. Consider the spectacle of the feeding frenzy amongst the crocodiles and how it must have looked and sounded. The degree of fear and self limiting beliefs each soldier had to overcome is astounding. And consider the degree of commitment and follow-through that was absolutely necessary to make it to the other side. Everything relied upon instant decisions and follow-through if they were to survive. There was no room for hesitation.

Few of the soldiers survived the crossing of the mangroves. Similarly, few people ever survive the crossing of the crocodile swamps in their minds and so fail to live out their dreams. But for those that do, it is due to their focus and vision, the absolute belief in their vision that they carry, and their unfailing follow-through These are the basic ingredients that are available to each of us. And they can be used to determine the thoughts we choose, the beliefs we foster, and the actions we take which will ultimately create the path to our own success.

There is no shortage of tremendous opportunities and enormous waves of momentum that we can ride. Opportunities are in abundance everywhere. But in order to catch a wave, each of us needs to be ready to swim out to it. And it is only through our own clarity of vision, depth of belief, and persistence that we will get there.

If 20 Japanese soldiers were able to cross 10 miles of mangrove swamps and overcome thousands of saltwater crocodiles, then it stands to reason that any of us can navigate the swamps in our minds and can achieve anything we choose to achieve.

You can achieve anything, without limits, with the for those limits you impose upon yourself.

By surrounding yourself with like minded people who hold th same depth of belief and vision as you have, you will quickly be able to leverage the strength and support of an entire team. So never, ever find reason to put limits upon yourself.

So start swimming and put those self limiting beliefs behind you!

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