This is the first installment of my Mentor Joseph Podcast. I’m Joseph Feusi and I’ve been a Mentor since 1994.

In this podcast I discuss the importance of belief systems. My experience has been that most people’s dreams are possible. Why most of us (me included at times in my life) have a hard time fulfilling dreams is that for one reason or another we simply can’t or maybe we feel on some level that we don’t deserve to. Why we can’t fulfill our dreams usually comes down to one simple thing—our belief system will not allow us to believe that our dreams are fulfillable. We can acquire these belief systems from a wide variety of sources. It can be our families, who they themselves did not believe that our dreams were fulfillable, and we received that message from them and took it to heart. Educational, religious, cultural and other systems can teach us that our dreams are not realistic and that we should not attempt to fulfill them. When I’ve talked to clients and they have explained to me why they believe that their deeply held dreams are unfulfillable, I am always surprised. Because, more often than not, they have all the requisite and prerequisite requirements and abilities to fulfill their dreams. They just lack one thing! They need to believe in themselves and develop a belief that their dreams are fulfillable.

So I ask my clients why do you believe that your dreams are unfulfillable? The majority of their answers are simply not accurate. Which brings me to the second part of the podcast today—which is the importance of verifying the authenticity of what you believe. Success in pretty much everything comes down to accurate information. If the information that you were given is that you can’t do something and it remains unchallenged in the absence of accurate information, then you won’t be able to do it, not because you can’t, but you will simply not try or try in a way that will not bring you the desired result. I, too, have held beliefs about myself that there were things that I thought that I couldn’t accomplish, only to discover that it was nothing but the belief alone that was holding me back.

The podcast has a brief homework assignment for you at the end where I ask you to ask yourself why you hold certain beliefs and where did they come from?

I look forward to sharing more podcasts in the near future!

Enjoy, Joseph.

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