Are you Limiting your Beliefs?

Are you being limited by your thoughts & beliefs? The other day one of my mentors brought up a very good point, so I thought I would pass it along.

We all have a tendency to get in our own heads, which makes us limit our potential. Currently I am doing a new program where 3 times during the workout out there are these challenges we have to do. They are basically a specific exercise, which we have to complete as many reps as we can within 60 seconds. They are designed to measure your progression through the program and help you to see how you improve each week. There is a chart we can pin up and write down our numbers for each one each day. Each week, those same mini challenges are present to see if we improved or not.

Each time, the trainer asks us to look at our numbers and do our best to exceed them. Well, a couple of times now when I have looked at my numbers, I looked at the wrong ones. I had looked at one and was like, how am I supposed to exceed 40 this time? When he said go, I went after it. At the end of 60 seconds I was at 36. I was like, what the hell! Then I realized , I was looking at the wrong numbers. For this particular one, my last set was at 26. So in a weeks time, I exceeded my count by 10 reps!

You see, our minds likes to mess with us. We see something, get in our own heads, and end up limiting our potential and beliefs. Then, our body shows us that yes we can do more, if we just stop over thinking it.

This can be true with anything you do. You start thinking about how you might not be able to accomplish something, and then hopefully decide to start it anyway, and the next thing you know, it was easier than you thought. Has this happened to you? Is there something you are working on right now and limiting your own potential? Get out of your head and just get started. You will probably find it is not as challenging as you think.