Belief and Action
"You are what you believe yourself to be."- Paulo Coelho
Many blogs ago I shared a quote by Henry Ford , "If you think you can or you can't, you are right." I love that quote because it teaches us how important is having a belief of whether we can do something or not. It teaches us that we place artificial limits on ourselbed.
The quote by Paulo extends this to our belief of what we are. If we believe we are good then we must be good, if we believe that we are smart then we must be smart, etc. it is a belief.
The interesting part is to combines these two ideas into one: We are what we believe ourselves to be and we will do what we are capable of.
So if we want to be something different then we must start believing that we are different. That is a start but we must combine it with belief that what we want to do we are capable of. Paulo's quote is a prerequisite for Ford's.
Today's question is:
"What do you believe yourself to be?"
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