The goals you set say more about your beliefs than your ambition
Every January (and, let's be honest, most Mondays), people set goals. Lose weight. Get the promotion. Finally deal with the anxiety that's been running the show for years. Some of these goals get chased down with real momentum. Others lose their momentum by February, and the person who set them decides — not for the first time — that they're "just not the disciplined type."
But guess what? How you set a goal, and what happens when it gets hard, has very little to do with discipline. It has almost everything to do with what you believe about how much power you actually have over your own life.
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How to challenge an unhelpful belief
Firstly though, what’s a belief? A simple explanation is a belief is ‘a thought you keep on thinking’.
But beliefs are a little different to thoughts because thoughts emerge and then if we don’t grab hold of them, they slowly drift away. Beliefs on the other hand are like a lens that we’re looking through every day.
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How To Feel Powerful In A Difficult Situation
When we hear stories of people who have faced really traumatic situations, and you try to imagine how you would cope yourself, most of us believe we wouldn’t. But you could.
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How To Respond When Someone "Makes You" Angry
You know the feeling. When someone says or does something rude to you and you retaliate without a second thought with a response that is equally as venomous. We often refer to it as “they just pushed my buttons” or “they caught me at the wrong moment”.
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