Ever wonder what your brain is making you do?
For many of us, that delightful, squishy architect of reality remains stuck replaying outdated childhood survival strategies.
Think about it: your inner five-year-old is still calling the shots, just now with a more sophisticated vocabulary and perhaps a serious coffee habit.
Early on, your brain cleverly developed a set of rules: “Cry and get fed,” “Smile and receive affection,” “Avoid danger to stay safe.” These strategies kept you alive and comfortable.
Decades later, however, those same rules—originally designed to secure comfort, approval, and security—are still running your life, akin to outdated software needing a critical update.
Indeed, your adult decisions are being guided by an ancient operating system—think Commodore 64 vintage—once highly functional but now severely limiting your potential.
Growing up in a General Motors household, I internalized the unspoken goal: secure a good job, a stable income, and eventually retire comfortably. Entrepreneurship was labeled an unnecessary risk, unconsciously limiting my beliefs about what was achievable.
The challenge? I didn’t even realize these deep-seated beliefs were steering my life until much later. It took significant self-awareness and guidance from mentors to recognize and rewrite these outdated patterns.
When I finally experienced this “aha!” moment, consciously rewiring these limiting beliefs, I saw exponential growth and success in my entrepreneurial ventures.
We all carry a version of this internal narrative: the subtle whisper urging us to “play it safe,” the limiting belief that “this is as good as it gets.”
It’s a comfortable cage built from well-meaning but restrictive anxieties, preventing us from stepping into our full potential.
But here’s the truth: a wildly successful version of you lies dormant beneath these limiting beliefs, waiting patiently to emerge.
Could today be your breakthrough?
Jim Rohn wisely said, “To have more than you’ve got, become more than you are.”
This transformation begins by upgrading your mental software—consciously challenging and rewriting old beliefs.
Change your mind, and perhaps your inner five-year-old will finally consent to a long-overdue system update.