It’s a new year and many people are gearing up to forge a new “me.”

Goals are set, promises made, club memberships purchased and the god of best intentions is beckoned.

Unknown, unearthed, subconscious, limiting beliefs are perhaps the biggest destroyer of good intentions and goals. You also might call them life commandments, or subconscious beliefs, either way, there are limiting beliefs within that tend to sabotage’ our best efforts.

Often these negative beliefs are formed through pain, disappointment, unmet expectations or even betrayal. For example, if you have ever experienced marriage betrayal, you might have declared in your soul “I will never allow myself to be hurt like that again.” This internal statement become a subconscious life commandment that can keep that person from entering into a new relationship out of fear of being hurt once again.

You will have greater success moving towards your goals and desires when you first invest the time discovering the limiting beliefs that you have. This will give you the opportunity to identify and then “Flip the Script” as you transform limiting beliefs into positive and dynamic beliefs.

Here are some key questions to ask yourself to mine out the limiting beliefs that potentially dwell within your soul:

• When under pressure I ……………………….……………………….
• I often feel guilty about ……………………………………………………….
• When …………. happens I stress out and feel like …………….
• My Achilles’ heel (greatest weakness) is ……………………….
• I am always trying to stop …………………………. from happening.
• When the unexpected happens I ……………………………………
• I always try to ………………………………………………………..
• The biggest obstacle that stops me loving and approving of myself is …………………
• What drives most of my behavior is ……………………………………….
• I am afraid of ………………………………………………………..
• I seek my ……………’s approval (always / mostly / usually / occasionally)
• My most frequent negative / uncomfortable emotion is feeling ……………………….
• The feeling I dislike the most is ……………………….
• I need to learn to ………………………………………………………..

As you honestly and ruthlessly answer questions like these, you will become aware of which beliefs are really driving your choices and behaviors.

Once the beliefs have been identified, it’s time to flip the script, rewording these life destroyers into positive, life creating beliefs, for example:

• I’m just not wired that way…can be flipped to -I can do all things through Christ!
• I don’t have time to make the changes…can be flipped to – I will maximize the time God gives me
• I don’t think that way…can be flipped to – I will change the way I think
• I’m just not smart enough I guess…can be flipped to – I will have the mind of Christ
• I never get any breaks…can be flipped to – God will deliver anything that I require
• God has it out for me…can be flipped to – God loves me unconditionally
• I’m just not gifted enough…can be flipped to – I am fearfully and wonderfully made

As you become more aware of the beliefs within that betray you, you are not a hostage to those limiting life commandments! In 2017 choose to flip the script and change your limiting beliefs into unlimited potential!