Have you ever had a limiting belief? Thoughts that stop you from doing something in your life. Thoughts that prevent you from achieving your goals and realizing success?

For me, that thought was this: I am not a marketing person. If I embrace this thought, I won’t even try to market my company because I believe I will fail. I won’t try to promote my Toastmasters club because my belief about myself will stop me before I even get started.

Well, you know what? I urge you to challenge yourself and to push past your limiting beliefs. Ignore those thoughts and take action instead.

Becoming a Marketing Person

I have decided that I am going to be a marketing person. I am ignoring my limiting belief.

How will I do this? By challenging myself and taking action.

My first action was to register for a trade booth at the chamber of commerce trade show in Windsor. I will attend this trade show and actively promote my company. This will make me a marketing person, and I can learn by doing. My goal will be to make people aware of my company, and more importantly to learn from them about their companies.

I believe that to successfully promote my company and find new clients I need to learn about other businesses and their needs. I can then identify their problems and show them how my company can help to solve those problems. This means that to build my skills as a marketer I need to find opportunities to learn about other companies first, then I can show them how I can help them.

Another way I will become a marketing person is to step into a role that is primarily about marketing. To do this, I will volunteer for the position of Vice President of Public Relations for my Toastmasters club. This is a role I never would have thought of pursuing in the past, but in the Sundowners Toastmasters club they say you learn by doing, so to become a marketing person I will take on a marketing role.

The Secret

I recently read a book by Rhonda Byrne called “The Secret”. This book teaches a powerful message about something called the law of attraction. What this law teaches is that you get what you focus on. If you focus on the positive, you get more positive things in life. If you focus on what you want, you get more of what you want. The opposite is also true. Focus on the negative, and you get more negatives in your life. Focus on what you don’t want, and you get more of what you don’t want.

I used to focus on the idea that I am not a marketing person. What a limiting thought! By focusing on this idea, I was preventing myself from learning how to successfully market my company and my Toastmasters club.

Now I know “The Secret”. I am now focusing on being a marketing person. This means I will get more of what I focus on, which is learning how to successfully market both my company and my Toastmasters club.

What About You?

What about you? What are your limiting beliefs?

I urge you to embrace the “The Secret”. Maybe even read the book yourself. Focus your thoughts and energy on positive thoughts and focus on what you want out of life.

Don’t focus on negative thoughts or limiting beliefs. If you do have a limiting belief, transform it into a positive thought and empowering belief. Then focus on your positive thoughts and focus on what you want.

For example, I now tell myself I am a marketing person in training. I will learn by doing and shape and develop myself into being a successful marketer who makes people aware of my company and my Toastmasters club. This is an empowering belief, and it means I am a marketing person because I am making the efforts to be one.

Conclusion

The message I want you to take away from this article is that you need to challenge yourself. Push past your limiting beliefs and do something to overcome that belief. Transform your negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Replace your limiting beliefs with empowering beliefs.

For me that is embracing the idea that I can successfully market my company and my Toastmasters club. The limiting belief that I have chosen to overcome is the belief that I am not a marketing person. Well, you know what, I never used to be a successful public speaker, but by learning and doing I am now a public speaker. I can apply the same approach to becoming a marketing person.

I am challenging myself to be a marketing person. What will you challenge yourself to do?