F.A.I.L. No More (Part 4 of 4) -Limiting Beliefs

Shawn Sommerkamp • March 9, 2018

2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Thus far we have covered three of the four most prevalent internal blockers that stifle professional and career growth – Fear, Assumptions and Interpretations, the F, A and I in F.A.I.L.

Now it’s time to discuss the fourth and final internal blocker which would be Limiting Beliefs, the L in F.A.I.L.

What is a Limiting Belief?

A Limiting Belief is something you accept about life that limits you in some way. Here are just a few examples:

  • I grew up as an orphan and therefore will never have the same opportunities others have
  • If I don’t get this promotion I will have no other options
  • One big mistake could ruin my career
  • If I assertively pursue advancement I will be viewed as a suck up
  • I have never been able to _______ so there’s no way I can start now
  • I’m a woman and a woman can never become president
  • I’m too old to start a new career
  • …the list is endless

This is one of the best reasons to hire a professional Christian Executive Coach. A coach will ask you questions that get down to what you really believe about yourself and your career potential. A coach is trained to quickly identify Limiting Beliefs (not to mention Fear, Assumptions and Interpretations) and can quickly help you remove this roadblock that has kept you from getting into the fast lane.

“I discovered it wasn’t a matter of physical strength, but of psychological strength. The conquest lay within my own mind to penetrate those barriers of self-imposed limitations and get through to that good stuff—the stuff called potential, 90 percent of which we rarely use.”

- Sharon Wood, first North American woman to climb Mt. Everest, 1986

As Christians, we have some severe limiting beliefs that have kept many of us from experiencing a financial rewarding and wonderfully successful careers:


Limiting Belief


Truth

Money is evil

Love of money is evil

Career & Ministry can’t coexist

Your workplace is your ministry

I’ll be too busy to help people

You will be able to help 10x more

Great business leaders are ruthless

The best leaders are servant leaders

Success requires dishonesty

Daniel, Joseph, Abraham, Job, David

I won’t have time for God

Commit every success to God

Psalm 119:45 I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts

This may be one of the toughest blockers to remove on your own. It requires diligence and disciplined journaling. It is important to see, by writing it on paper or typing into a journal, exactly what beliefs you have about your own career.

Consider an executive coach as a powerful next step in conquering this fourth and final internal blocker. The investment you make will reap a bounty of return.

Shawn Sommerkamp is a motivational speaker and Executive Coach with 20+ years of Fortune 100 leadership experience. He founded Motivationeer™ to coach Christian professionals how to bring the power of Christ’s word, as the foundation of career success, into corporate and small business America.

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