What are the most common beliefs that limit financial success?
There are a couple of limiting beliefs that are probably most common. I'm sure there are thousands out there, but I think I've identified a handful that people will probably, and unfortunately, identify with. One of the limiting beliefs is, "No matter what I do, I just can't get ahead. Regardless of what I do today, it's not going to have any impact on tomorrow." That's clearly a limiting belief. Some others are: "Small actions, small changes, never, ever produce anything worthwhile, never produce anything big." That's a limiting belief, and we can talk about that a little bit in a moment. Some might call limiting beliefs excuses, and maybe they are, but they certainly can be limiting beliefs in that you may think, "If I'm financially successful, I'm not going to have any time with my friends, my kids, my hobbies. I'm just going to be working so much that I'm not going to have any time for anybody else." Clearly, if you have that kind of limiting belief, who's going to want to be financially successful if that's what you think financial success is all about? I hear this one all time : "The rich people, they've had to claw their way to the top. They lie, they cheat, they steal, they abuse. I don't want to be rich because I don't want to be like them." Clearly, no-one wants to lie, cheat, and steal to get their way to the top. That's an excuse. There are many, many, many people out there that are really successful, and guess what? They're not crooked. They're not liars. They're not scumbags. They're actually really, really good people. That limiting belief is just an excuse.
