❏ Realizing what skills and qualities you are bringing to this
situation.
❏ Knowing what is important to you and how you are
fulfilling those needs, both for you and for anyone else
involved in the situation.
❏ Appreciating how what you are doing and the way you
are feeling fit for you personally.
❏ Discovering how you are influencing bigger systems of
which you are a part, both right now and at other times.
6 Reflect on what your experience has been of holding this
belief as you re-experienced the situation.
7 How do you feel about the situation now and how you might
approach it in the future?
8 How do you feel about this belief and how it can work for
you (assuming that it can)?
9 Repeat the process for two other situations that you know
will occur in the coming week.
10 Decide what you will specifically commit to doing or
believing in the future.
Winning is not about facts and figures—it is about belief. If we
believe we can’t, we won’t. If we believe we can, we just might.
The pilot who landed a plane that had an engine failure and
saved the lives of the majority of his passengers in doing so
said, “It was belief that kept the plane in the air. I believed
against all the odds that I could get the plane safely on the
ground.”
Beliefs are emotionally held thoughts about ourselves,
others, and situations. They are not based on fact but on our
perception of events at the time they were formed. In studying
figures of excellence we find certain core beliefs underpinning
their ability to excel and achieve. These are the beliefs of
excellence.
We can step into (presuppose) these beliefs and
experience the consequences of holding them to be true. By
trying them out and finding the ones that work for us, we can,
over time, turn them into beliefs for ourselves.
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