The Magic of Belief

Make Belief Part Of Your Personal Development Plan

Ryan dives deep into the power of belief and why it’s a vital element of creating a successful home based business when it comes to your Personal Development Plan.

Key Takeaways:

• Belief is foundational to progress.
• Belief is the fuel with which we make decisions.
• In order to lead others we must lead ourselves.
• Focus belief on…
• Yourself
• Your business
• Your product and services
• Your team

Tweetable Quotes:

• “Everything is possible for him who believes.”
• “There’s magic in believing.”
• “Belief is having a gut feeling of certainty.”

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TRANSCRIPTION

[Intro] You’re listening to episode nine. You’ve seen the future, you know, where your life is heading, but you know, you haven’t taken the right steps to get you there. Welcome to the home-based business podcast. Where we believe the only way to future-proof your income is to create a plan to build a successful home-based business. It’s time to create a life of freedom, security, and impact with your host Ryan Allen Bell.

Ryan: Hey, welcome to the show. I’m your host, Ryan Allen Bell. I believe the only way to achieve true freedom is to future-proof your income by creating a plan to quit your job and start a home-based business. In this podcast, I’ll be diving deep into everything home-based business related and interviewing thought leaders in their space who are creating successful home-based businesses. So, if you want to learn the new way of business, if you want to develop the mindset and skills to get you from where you are to where you want to go, then you’re in the right place because this is the home-based business podcast. Today I dive deep into the power of belief and why it matters so much to build a successful home-based business. I go into what exactly is belief? How belief works? And what happens when you start applying massive belief into yourself and your home-based business. Now, before we jump into the episode today, if you thought about starting your own home-based business, or you’re currently working on a home-based business, but haven’t fully figured out how to achieve the level of success you desire. Have me and my team help you out head over to ryanallenbell.com/workwithme to learn more and we can hop on a quick call to see if we can be a good fit to launch a home-based business for you. That way you can achieve the freedom you truly desire in your life. That’s ryanallenbell.com/workwithme.

Hey, what’s up. Welcome back to the show today. I want to dive deep into the power of belief and how believing and belief plays such a crucial role in our lives and not necessarily only for our home-based businesses, but for a life in general. The way I want to go about this is I want to share a couple of stories on how belief has really impacted my life. And then I wanna dive deep into why belief matters, what to focus on when it comes to belief, how actually works. Then we’ll dive deep into what happens when you focus on belief for yourself and what kind of changes believing allows you to make in your business and your life.

So for my personal experience, I believe belief is so foundational to progress forward in anything that we do. I’m going to share a quick story on how belief completely transformed the direction of my life. And this goes back to that moment when I first got introduced to building a home-based business. Prior to this, I was working 12 hour shifts at a job I wasn’t passionate about someone introduced to me, Hey, you could build a business from home. I was like, okay, let me look at this. And then I had a decision. I had a decision if I was going to pursue this path, this new path and alter the course of my life. And so here I am, and I’m at a fork in the road. One way I could end up pursuing this career for the next 40 years of my life. Something that I’m not passionate about, that will probably not fulfill me, or I can take a leap of faith and pursue a different path, which has the potential for me to find more fulfillment in my life. And I remember sitting there one day really considering the two paths in my life and really thinking about which one would be the right path for me. And I knew if I decided to choose this new path pursuing entrepreneurship, I knew I had to have so much belief in myself in order to do it and really the catalyst that allowed me to go from my previous job to pursuing a career from home, building a home-based business, that catalyst was believing in myself. And it really got to a point where I had to take a leap of faith and to me, that leap of faith was believing in myself, believing in my future, believing in the new people I was meeting in my life who were going to guide me into a successful direction and believing in the business I was about to build. But that first belief was in myself. And I got to a point where I told myself, I was like, Hey, if I’m going to do this thing, I’m really going to do this thing and I’m going to put so much belief in myself that I was going to succeed. And I remember telling myself from day one, I’m not going to look back. I’m going to have tunnel vision, and I’m going to go after this thing until I succeed. And I remember developing so much belief in myself that nothing was going to sway me. Nothing was going to turn me around and I believe that was the biggest catalyst that has gotten me to where I am today. And so, I want to dive deep into belief, so you have a better understanding of the power of belief and so you could actually incorporate it into your life and use it to drive you forward in your business and in your life.

So why does belief matter? Really when I’m looking at belief, I see it as a type of fuel. It‘s a driving force without it, you don’t have enough fuel to even make simple decisions every single day. And so that should be the foundation to the decisions that you make the second that you wake up every single day of your life, you’re like, Hey, I’m confident in myself. I’m going to have a great day. I’m going to crush today. I’m going to focus on my business. I’m going to serve people. And it just starts with believing in you to be able to carry out your day, right? And so, it’s literally fuel. It’s a driving force that drives you throughout your life on a daily basis. And so that’s why it’s so important and belief goes back thousands of years. One of my favorite scriptures is Mark nine 28. And it says everything is possible for him who believes. And I use that as a foundational principle for my life in general, as long as I believe things will work out in my life and I believe that for you as well. As long as you believe in what you’re doing, things are just going to work out for you. And that’s just what happens, there’s magic and believing. And the reason why you want to use belief as this driving force is so, number one, you can lead yourself and number two, you could lead others. And in order to lead others, you must first lead yourself.

And so, by having massive belief in yourself, you start leading yourself on a daily basis, which in turns allows you to lead others. And by doing this, you’re now in a position to serve people. And this by itself will allow you to have so much success in your home-based business, because people are going to see like, Hey, this person knows what they’re doing. They know exactly where they’re going and this is someone I can look up to. Right there, you’re in a position of leadership because you believe in yourself and people can see that in you and once they see that in you and they see you’re credible, they see, you know where you’re going, then you can market your products and services to them and you can lead them to a better direction and their life through your products and services. So that’s why belief matters so much. It is fuel to lead yourself so you can lead others. So, you could build a successful home-based business. And what areas should we focus our belief in? Obviously, number one is ourself. Number two is thebusiness that you’re involved in. So, whether that’s your own business or you’re a part of a business, you want to believe in that business, right?

Number three, you want to believe in the products and services that you’re marketing to the marketplace. Because if you believe in that product and that service that you’re helping people with, you’re going to feel so much more aligned as you’re marketing this. And as you’re presenting whatever you’re presenting to the marketplace, and when people buy your products and services, you’re going to feel like you’re really serving them because this is a product that I believe in and you could be in this position where like, Hey, I really believe this is going to change your life. And the fourth thing is to believe in the team that you’re working with. You might have your own team of people in your business that help you carry out your business, or you might be plugged in to a bigger business that has a team and this comes down to believe in people who you look up to people who are on your level or people that you’re coaching, right? So, believing in your team.

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And so, what exactly is belief? And really what I think belief is, is having a gut feeling of certainty. That’s what belief is, is like a yes, I can attitude. Think about big moments in your life, where you had gut feelings and it turned out in your favor. I believe that’s part of belief. To understand belief better you want to use your intuition to have a better understanding of your gut feelings and use that as indicators as you make decisions on your path in life. Literally use your gut feelings to guide you throughout your life and once you’re in touch with those gut feelings, you can say, yeah, I believe I’m doing the right thing in my life. This is the right decision for me. And so that’s what belief is. It should feel like certainty. It should feel like excitement. It should make you feel like, yes, I can do this. So that’s what belief is. And how do you get more in touch with this belief? And I’ll give you some examples, think about the sun rising and setting. How certain are you that the sun is going to set today and is going to rise tomorrow morning? Get in touch with that feeling, that certainty feeling. That’s what belief is. You have an overwhelming knowingness that that’s going to happen. And so that’s really what belief is, is like, you know, this is going to happen. You know, this is the right decision for me, right? And so that’s just one example tomorrow. I know the sun is going to rise and I know the sun is going to set. I have this feeling of certainty that that’s going to happen. Right? So, get in touch with that emotion and transmute that for other areas of your life, another example is to think of things that you’re already good at. Maybe that could be cooking or being a parent or your current job, or some type of hobby that you have, like fishing or video games, or maybe being a student, or maybe you’re already good at being an entrepreneur, using social media, using Instagram, Facebook, podcasting, creating content on YouTube. Maybe you’re already good at those things. You get in touch with the emotions behind that, because if you can feel like you’re a good parent for all you have to do is transmute that feeling to whatever topic you want to use that for.

Let’s say your business or making the right decisions to move you forward in life. Because that feeling what it is like, the other example is certainty. I am certain, I’m a great parent. I am certain I’m good at cooking. I am certain, I’m a great entrepreneur. I am certain, I’m a great student, right? And all you want to do is transmute that certainty to other areas of your life. And that’s how you start developing belief in yourself and what you’re doing, and a good recommendation to start so you can start learning this at a super basic level is start with small wins. Don’t aim for the stars right away, aim for something that you believe you can accomplish first. Right? And so,when you do accomplish that, then you start believing more in yourself. And so, create small wins and think of success like a staircase. One step at a time, one small win at a time. And over years and decades, what ends up happening is these small wins that you’ve accumulated for years and decades become gigantic wins. And that’s why people, all of a sudden, you’re like, Oh wow. It looks like you got lucky or your overnight success. And you’re like, no, I’ve been grinding my whole life just accumulating these small wins every single day, every single month, every single year. And along that path, as you developed belief in yourself and what you’re doing one step at a time, one small win at a time. And so that’s how belief works. Number one, it is a fuel. It’s a driving force for you. It helps you lead yourself so you can lead others. Number two, it’s a feeling it’s a gut feeling. It feels like certainty. Get in touch with that feeling. Number three, use metaphors to get in touch with this. Imagine what it feels like knowing that the sun is going to rise tomorrow on set tomorrow. Imagine what it feels like knowing that you’re a great parent or a great student or a great whatever you’re great at. Imagine what it feels like to have that certainty and start with those small wins to build belief one step at a time. Now, think what would happened to your life if you started focusing on belief and using belief to move you forward in your life? Just imagine, let’s say you start focusing on these small wins and you start believing in yourself and what you’re doing one step at a time. Imagine how that’s going to change your life one year from now, two years from now, five years from now, 10 years from now, imagine the person you’re going to become by believing in yourself every single day, and getting in touch with this certainty in what you’re doing with this belief in what you’re doing.

Imagine the people that you’re going to be able to serve by believing in yourself. If you have big goals right now, if you really want to transform other people’s lives, it starts with believing in you. And you could do that. Start with the small wins and over time you will have big wins and people will see that in you and the like, Hey, this is someone that could lead me to where I want to go in life. They’ll say, show me the way, teach me, guide me, help me. I believe in you. And that’s, what’s going to end up happening. You’re going to believe in yourself so much that the marketplace will start believing in you and what you’re doing. And that’s how you’re going to transform this world. That’s how you’re going to bring true value to the marketplace, through your products and services and that’s how you’re going to grow a successful home-based business. It’s only a matter of time before you start harvesting. You just got to start believing today and start with the small wins and over time, the small wins will seem like gigantic wins. And one day you’re going to wake up and think to yourself wow, I’m so grateful that I started believing in myself so many years ago. It’s helped me get to where I am today. And to end, I just want to share what the power of belief has done with me. Number one, it helped me make that initial decision to become an entrepreneur, to build a successful home-based business. I did that over seven years ago. I’ve been full-time for the last five years and today, this is what I do. And the power of belief led me to build this podcast. I would not be able to bring on amazing people to interview if it wasn’t for me, believing that I can build a successful podcast.

And so that belief allowed me to take this next step on my path so I can impact even more people. So, I could bring people in to share value with even more people. And I share that to inspire you, to use belief, to guide you on your path. So, what I invite you to do is believe in yourself, believe in the process, take a leap of faith. Really. That’s really what it comes down to is taking a leap of faith in yourself and what you’re doing. And fast forward, five years from now, then you can look back at the decisions that you made and you can pinpoint like, yes, because I believed in myself at that moment, it helped me get to where I am today. So, start today, make a decision believe much bigger, much faster in yourself.

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