What's "True" for You That's Stopping You?

The Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989. It was just two and a half years after Ronald Reagan had given his famous challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to, "Tear down this wall." Soon, the entire Soviet Union would fall. And yet, few believed it would really happen. 

The Berlin Wall was reality. It was "true" for anyone alive at the time. 

There are many other examples in life where things that had once been accepted as true fell under the weight of a new reality: The Earth is flat. Man can't fly. Smoking doesn't cause cancer. 

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You may be held back by the same kind of beliefs in your own life. What do you accept as true that's based on false assumptions or facts that no longer apply? What do you believe about yourself that is no longer valid?

Some of these beliefs go back to things said to us or about us when we were kids ("you're just not good with Math") or to what we picked up from our parents or other authority figures (coaches, teachers, etc). 

False or limiting beliefs include things like, "I can't save any money," or "I'll always be fat," or "I can't cook." They hold us back. They stop us from trying new things, branching out, taking risks. 

The challenge is to recognize the false belief when it appears and to ask yourself if it's really true or merely something you just accepted as true. 

Ask yourself, "Who says?" and embrace a new reality.