3 Self-Destructive Beliefs to Drop This Year

Instead of new year’s resolutions, discover what beliefs are shaping your behavior. Change your beliefs, and your behavior will change automatically.

Here we are, a few weeks into a new year-for many, this is a time of hopeful changes and new habits.

Most “new year’s resolutions” come down to this: “I want to take better care of myself.” No one ever says, “My goal for this year is to ingest more harmful chemicals than ever before!” No, whether you’re going to eat more veggies, drink more water, find a counselor, spend more time with friends, earn a certification, improve your communication skills, spend less time on social media… you’ve chosen this goal because you know it’s good for you.

So, if you want to do something good for yourself, why is it so easy to quickly revert back to self-defeating behaviors? Because somewhere deep inside there’s a conflicting belief that’s getting in the way. You may not even be conscious of it, but you can’t change your behavior if you don’t change the mindset or belief system that created the behavior in the first place. Sure, you can change it temporarily, with great effort and determination. But eventually you’ll get tired and your auto-pilot will take over and you will revert to your old ways.