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Rewiring your mind to be confident can be instant this way

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A friend of mine was a money-obsessed, jacked, ladies' man for most of his twenties and thirties.

I was always impressed by his drive and pursuit of success.

But, seemingly overnight in his late thirties, he completely changed.

He told me he found Jesus, had stopped going to the gym, and chose to live a simple, almost monk-like life in Southeast Asia.

This is the power of a belief.

He reached a point where his belief in one strategy for a 'happy life' became totally replaced by another.

His belief in what was needed for him to be happy was flipped.

That's what we're all doing.

Looking for ways to be happier.

And we entertain beliefs (thoughts) about what we think is true that affect our behaviours.

In my friend's mind, he used to think: money, stuff, and lots of women make me happy.

This eventually changed to: faith, a good wife and simplicity make me happy.

He'd found enough evidence to debunk his former belief, and enough evidence to prove that the updated belief was far preferable.

And so his life changed.

Not over months or years. The shift in belief is instant when there is enough new evidence to support an updated belief.

Literally overnight. Like that.

You can use this understanding of beliefs to your advantage.

False beliefs can make us struggle unnecessarily, and we can be free from them when we debunk them.

For many of us, we struggle with other people.

I did for most of my life. I was anxious and terrified about being rejected.

...Until I changed my beliefs about others.

I used to see people as a threat.

Now I see them as simply people, none of whom need to affect how I feel.

My course, Letting Go of the S#it that Weakens You, guides you through exactly what I did to reprogram my beliefs to no longer care so much about what others thought.

I questioned several core beliefs and found new evidence to support new truths.

I now feel freer and more confident, and social anxiety is a distant murmur at most.

I can't believe how much psychological pain I had to go through unnecessarily.

What is your fear of rejection costing you?

Alex