Belief

Belief – blessing or curse

Written & brought to you by

Ken Crause – Business Transformation Coach.

Contrary to what so many people think, we are actually not the result of our heredity, past or environment. We are in fact the product of what we believe to be true.

A story is told about two brothers. They were born 11 months apart. Their father was a criminal. He had abused alcohol and drugs and was abusive in every way. One day while robbing a convenience store for money to buy more drugs, a worker there got in his way. He shot him. This resulted of course in him being sent to prison for life for murder. So this is the background of these two brothers. Both raised in the same environment, with the same heredity. But their lives took totally different paths.

The one brother became just like his father. In time he landed up in jail also for armed robbery. When asked why he had become this way he stated, “well what did you expect – look at my father.”.

The other brother however married, had 3 children and became a manager for a major corporation. Likewise he was asked to what he credited his success. Amazingly his answer was identical to his brother’s. “How could I be otherwise, look at my father. I did not want to turn out like him.”

We often fail to recognize that we are not who we are because of some supposed zodiac sign we are born under. Nor are we the result of our heredity, or experiences. We are in fact the result of what we believe about these things. The crux of the matter is simply this. Each of us has at our disposal, the greatest power in the universe..... “the power of choice”. We have the ability to choose our destinies by taking deliberate action to believe things. Jesus made this statement, “Nothing is impossible to those who believe”

I would like to leave you with one other story that illustrates this point. Two ladies reached the age of 70. The one believed that she had reached her three score and ten so any more years were a bonus. She went about setting her house in order and preparing to die – which did not wait too long. The other lady decided that she was now at an age where there was no more responsibility so she was going to do what she always wanted to do – climb mountains. And so she did. Twenty years later at the age of 95 she climbed Mt. Fuji and has the record of the oldest person to ever scale that mountain. Was this just fate? I don’t think so. It all had to do with what they believed about life.

Three years prior to my father’s death, he started to say, “he was old” and that he had reached his Three score and ten so the rest was borrowed time”. When he started to repeat it over and again it became his belief and his body soon went downhill resulting in a massive heart attack at the age of seventy three which took his life. Was it really his “time to die”? I don’t think so.

The Bible says, “As a man thinks (believes) in his heart, so is he (so is his experience)”. Think about that today and ask yourself what you really believe and why. Chances are your beliefs are the very thing that is holding you back from truly becoming who you could be.

There is a relatively new science today called “NAC” Neuro-Associative Conditioning” or “Neuro-Linguistic Programming”. This science proves that we can change rapidly and permanently by changing our perception and interpretation of things. I highly recommend you read up on it and learn more about how it could help you reach your dreams and rid yourself of the roadblocks in your thinking.

Ken Crause