If you've been reading this newsletter since January, you've been busy making your 2009 an incredible year!  You've taken on some new habits, and you're seeing some positive results in your life.

Another critical aspect of your growth is shedding some of your old beliefs.  Until we sit down and take some time to think about it, we don't even realize how many of these we're carrying around.  And how much they affect the results we get in our lives.

For the sake of example, let's look at how this works in the area of your life involving money.  Have you ever taken the time to examine all the beliefs you have about it?  As you were growing up, you "learned" many things about money -- from your parents, your friends, your teachers, and your community. 

What were the messages you heard?  Did you learn that money was very hard to come by?  That people who had more or less money than you were somehow "wrong?"  That there isn't enough money for everyone, so if you have too much that means someone else doesn't have enough?

Whatever you were taught, you internalized without even realizing it.  And now you're carrying those beliefs around with you and acting on them.  And your actions are creating results in your life.  In order to get different results than you're getting now, you'll need to shed some of those old beliefs! 

The great news is, that in every moment, you are the only one who can decide what beliefs you will act from.  It's just a matter of becoming conscious of what your beliefs are, and deciding whether you want to keep them or change them!

 Your Two-Week Action Plan: 

1. Think about an area of your life where you want different results than you're currently getting.  Take a blank piece of paper and write the name of that area on the top (e.g., "Money" or "Career" or "Relationships")
2. Take a few deep breaths, and then start to list all the messages you received about that area as you were growing up.  These might be things people told you, or things that you observed around you. 
3. Decide which of those beliefs are serving you well today.  Circle those beliefs.
4. Decide which of the beliefs on the list are not serving you well at this point in your life.  Cross them out.  You can choose to shed these old beliefs and replace them with beliefs that will help you create the results you want.
5. Over the course of the next two weeks, as you think of more messages, add them to the list and sort them according to the process above.