If I give you 4 or 5 questions I wonder how many you get right: 

1: What does it mean when the light turns red?

2: What does it mean when the police cars lights are flashing directly behind you?

3: What does it mean when you have an extra thousand in your bank account?

4: What does it mean if your best friend has a black eye?

5: What does it mean when someone says “no” to something you really want?

How did you do?

On the surface of it that all seemed, well excuse the pun; pretty surface, right?

The first couple of those questions may have seemed very easy while the ones that followed may have generated other questions inside your own head like; is the extra money mine? Or, why does your friend have the black eye?

The first few question would have seemed easy mostly because they both have a fairly universal meaning. Red light generally mean stop and a police car flashing his light is a pretty good indicator that you should at least pull over.

However, as the questions continued we may find that the answers become increasingly subjective in their meaning depending on whose answering and in what context. None the less for most people there is an ‘automatic answer’ that comes up around such questions and that automatic answer is a result of an underlying belief. The underlying belief is what we call the truth, while in fact it is nothing more than our own personal, (small t) truth.

So what is a belief? Where do they come from and what is it that keeps them in place?

Let me give you a bit of an idea of how powerful beliefs are…

A belief is in all likelihood the most powerful software because they are running in the human mind. It’s beliefs that determines everything from the way we see the world to the way we see ourselves.

The bottom line is; it’s your beliefs that determine whether you see opportunity or restriction.  Whether being fired means you could end up on the street or whether it’s an opportunity to start your own business.

It’s your belief software that determines whether you give in or go on.

In his early days as an artist Pablo Picasso was ridiculed by the critics of the day, but his deep belief in his art never gave way to the critics. As a result, whether you like his work or not Picasso is arguably the most well know abstract artist to date. 

Conversely; Something you may never have known is: Adolf Hitler also had a dream of being an artist and failed the entrance exam to a Vienna fine arts school. Unfortunately those critics got to him and although he too is very well know it’s not for fulfilling his dream as an artist.

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