| What do you have to believe in order to show up, | | | | cannot rise to without an adequate belief system. It is |
| serve, and prosper as an entrepreneur?Your beliefs, | | | | not enough to deconstruct limiting beliefs. In order to |
| assumptions, and opinions give shape to the world, | | | | continuously craft a meaningful and functional definition |
| ordering the vast quantities of information and | | | | of success and to chart or re-chart your course, you |
| overwhelming amount of stimulation you receive every | | | | must become responsible for what you have to |
| moment. As many self-mastery gurus have advised | | | | believe and how you are about believing it.Here are |
| us over the years, negative or limiting beliefs tend to | | | | some other "have to beliefs" that show up in my work |
| close down possibilities, narrow the future, put a lid on | | | | with entrepreneurs, business owners, independent |
| progress. Much has been written (and fortunes built) on | | | | professionals, and artists. Try them on for size. Notice |
| how to identify and dissolve limiting beliefs.But what | | | | that what a "have to belief" does not need to quarrel |
| about positive beliefs? While it is important to be able | | | | with reality.-- I have to believe that people can take |
| to notice and work through limiting beliefs, it is also | | | | care of themselves, and I know that sometimes they |
| important to know and take a stand for what you | | | | cannot.-- I have to believe that my thriving and |
| "have to believe," to be proactive about what gets you | | | | prosperity will not necessitate someone else's |
| out of bed in the morning, sparks your vision, fuels your | | | | suffering, and I know that sometimes it might.-- I have |
| choices, and instills the spirit of entrepreneurship.A | | | | to believe that being a good steward for my business |
| "have to belief" is a way of understanding that | | | | will help me show up and serve.-- I have to believe that |
| resonates so deeply with your sense of purpose, | | | | I can afford to act in my client's best interests, even |
| meaning, and service that you willingly embrace it and | | | | when that means that I will earn less (or no) income-- I |
| subordinate your choices to it. A "have to belief" is one | | | | have to believe that prosperity is attractive to the |
| that you hold with conscious commitment and | | | | people I want to work with.-- I have to believe that |
| self-reflective awareness, knowing that it is a belief | | | | there are plenty of people for whom my work is a |
| (not a fact) and being responsible for the ways this | | | | perfect match who can and will value my services |
| belief endows your life with meaning, purpose, and | | | | enough to pay for them.-- I have to believe that |
| focus.There is no absolute, verifiable, objective | | | | mistakes are the compost for future success, and I |
| third-party system that can prove a "have to belief." | | | | know that this includes picking up after myself and |
| Instead you learn to hold these beliefs as a skilled | | | | making amends for my errors."Have to beliefs" are |
| fencer holds a sword or a tournament tennis player a | | | | beliefs you choose because they make you stronger, |
| racquet: with a loose-and-tight grip that responds to | | | | wiser, smarter, kinder, more resilient. They challenge |
| both inner promptings and encounters with the physical | | | | you to be bigger, more creative, bolder. And for every |
| world.It's important to hold a "have to belief" loosely | | | | "have to belief" a new world of action is |
| enough to remember that you do not have the right to | | | | revealed.What do you have to believe in order to |
| impose your belief on anyone else. And in this | | | | show up, serve, and attract prosperity as an |
| loose-enough grip, there is room to question, challenge, | | | | entrepreneur?Molly Gordon, MCC, is a leading figure in |
| and evolve what you "have to believe" as your learn | | | | business coaching and personal growth coaching, |
| and grow.At the same time, it is important to hold a | | | | writer, and a frequent presenter at live and virtual |
| "have to belief" tightly or firmly enough that it can order | | | | events worldwide. Join 12,000 readers of her Authentic |
| your experience (without closing down awareness of | | | | Promotion(R) ezine, a comprehensive small business |
| other possibilities) and provide emotional and spiritual | | | | marketing resource helping you grow your strong |
| sustenance.So what does this have to do with being | | | | business while you feed your soul, and receive a free |
| open for business and your prosperity as an | | | | 31-page guide on effective |
| entrepreneur? In my view, everything. Every day I | | | | self promotion. |
| encounter in myself or in my clients situations that we | | | | |