In Awaken the Giant Within Tony Robbins talks about 2 ways to change your beliefs. The most effective way is to instruct your brain to associate massive pain with the old belief. For example, one of my old beliefs was that I could not earn the kind of money I wanted and that I would always struggle to pay the bills. What I had to do was to associate so much pain with that belief and that if I kept the belief it would provide me with pain for the rest of my life. That was simply not acceptable. Believing that I could make all of the money I wanted was a much more pleasurable belief. So I worked and trained my brain to turn it around.
 
The second way is to create doubt. This is because the minute we begin to question our beliefs, we no longer feel certain about them. By questioning the belief you will find yourself slowly moving away from automatically accepting it to be true to not wanting it to be so and eventually to a complete reversal.
 
Limiting beliefs about money, who you are, what you have to offer, how effective you can be and how you fit in the marketplace can dramatically limit your chances of success. If you do not believe that you can achieve everything you want, you will not achieve it. However, if you train your brain with empowering beliefs on a consistent basis that are backed up by reference points, intense emotions and a commitment to act on those beliefs, there is no limit to what you can achieve.
 
Action steps:
 
1. Brainstorm a list of all of the beliefs you have on one big piece of paper.

2. Divide the beliefs into two categories – empowering and disempowering.

3. Take the top 3 beliefs in each category and describe how they empower/dis-empower you.

4. Look at your most painful limiting beliefs and identify some of the consequences you experience as a result of having these beliefs?

5. Decide that these beliefs no longer serve you and that you are no longer willing to put up with the pain associated with having these beliefs. Identify your replacement beliefs and write them out as statements.

Notice how just writing them out created a different energy inside of you. Read your statement out loud and it will become even more powerful.