Self Belief, the Secret to a Meaningful Life

“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world right in the eye!”

– Helen Keller

One big power trip

You only have to read the newspapers or watch the news and it will become clear that life, for some people, and groups of people, is one big power trip.

For those who struggle with the idea that there is natural abundance in the universe – and one look at the inequality and suffering that exists on earth is enough to convince many – achieving a position of power can easily become an obsession.

An opportunity to manipulate and control

Positions of power, for those who pay lip service to moral and ethical values, offer an opportunity to manipulate and control the actions and behaviours of others in order to feed their unscrupulous hunger for money and status.

By sharing the spoils of power with with other shamelessly self-centred and pliable individuals they can quickly expand and entrench their powerbase until it becomes self perpetuating.

The world, both past and present, is replete with examples of this wherever you care to look – in politics, religion, the corporate world and even in professional sport.

What has this got to do with self belief?

Well, the last thing that greedy people in power need or want, is people who stand up to them and publicly expose their duplicity and self interested motives.

Shut down criticism

So they will go to increasing lengths to shut down criticism and ‘discipline’ those who question them or the movement that they represent.

They will invoke powerful yet disingenuous means to validate the need for such action, such as ‘the interests of our people’, the ‘will of the Creator’, ‘shareholder profits’ or ‘national pride’ for example.

The cancer spreads

In a world where corruption and dictatorship is seen to pay dividends, the cancer spreads – in an insidious trickle down effect – to people in lower order positions of power such as local politicians, religious and community leaders, business leaders and managers, heads of sporting bodies and even school principals and governing bodies.

Disempowering and demeaning

This has a thoroughly disempowering and demeaning effect on the vast majority of us ordinary people, who are honest and with good intentions but without positions of power.

We have to live and survive as best we can in a world where the dice are loaded against us by small but disproportionately strong bands of conniving and manipulative power trippers.

Negative impact on self belief

This causes frustration and confusion and has a severely negative impact on self belief, or our belief in our ability to be, do and have anything we want in life.

As a direct consequence, we lose our child-like ability to envision what is possible and instead of imagining, visualising and creating, we go into our shells and resort to coping.

It is not my intention to cast a pall of gloom over your day. I simply wanted to bring into your conscious awareness how, if we don’t take active measures to prevent it, the world around us will slowly sap our self belief.

The secret to living a meaningful and fulfilling life

Self belief and creative thinking is in short supply. But it is undoubtedly the secret to living a meaningful and fulfilling life.

That’s something I have come to appreciate after many years of experience in the life coaching industry.

How to catapult your self belief

The good news is that, through life coaching, you can catapult your self belief to levels you didn’t know existed.

Transformational life coaching – such as that incorporated into the New Insights life coaching system, builds self belief by exposing individuals to their inner power and their ability to replace restrictive beliefs and thought patterns with empowering and liberating beliefs centred around possibility.

Abundance mentality

Life coaching helps people to connect with their innate gifts and talents and to think out of the box about how they might use such talents to benefit the world.

It promotes a refreshing ‘win-win’ abundance mentality and an approach to life based on the importance of taking personal responsibility and allowing others to live their best lives unrestricted by one\’s own actions and behaviours.

Career for the 21st century

It is truly a career for the 21st century – one that is needed more than ever in today’s world.

Perhaps it’s time we introduced life coaching in our schools in an effort to develop and ’future-proof’ the self belief of our children!