What is stopping you from developing as a person? Dealing with false beliefs

Timothy Ivaikin
3 min readMar 3, 2022

If you look at the history of the development of the richest and most influential people from the outside, you can immediately notice a distinctive way of thinking and worldview. A successful person will not justify his actions or pay attention to criticism from society, he always moves towards his goal.

What prevents us from developing personal growth and achieving success? I will answer — false beliefs. They not only take time, effort and nerves, but also affect the adoption of important decisions.
But what false beliefs does almost everyone use? Let me give you a few examples from my life experience.

“I’m not good enough for this job”

Uncertainty in one’s own abilities and professionalism can play a cruel joke in a person’s life. Most people tend to be afraid of a new job, big responsibility and the unknown. There is nothing wrong with this, but only if a person understands that he can cope with any task.

What makes you think you can’t complete the task? The difference between a successful person and an insecure one is that the first will go further along the intended path, and the second will stop before difficulties.
Fear is the main false belief that stops many people. You must learn to live with the fearful thoughts and channel them in the right direction. Turn on critical thinking, analyze the situation and move forward.

“I don’t have time and energy”

This phrase is most often used by people who want to justify their own fear. They do not want to try new solutions, use their skills to work more efficiently, and do not look for opportunities.

However, if you make even a cursory analysis of the situation, you can always find time. The main thing is to overcome your inner doubts. Pay attention to how successful people act — they always develop and work in parallel.

For example, there are specialists who spend more than 6 hours a day working on IT projects. At the same time, they find time to engage in career development. They stream, create their own training programs. All this brings them additional rewards and opportunities for personal growth.

“I’m afraid of competition”

Many people follow a false belief as early as the implementation phase of a project. Who told you that your project will not be able to beat the competition in the market? Until you check, you can’t say for sure. Of course, there are and will always be risks, but this is precisely the success of every successful person.

Failure and mistakes are an important part of the process of becoming a successful person. Do you think that famous and rich people don’t lose money and don’t make mistakes? On the contrary, they work on their mistakes like gamblers.

“Not now.”

What prevents right now to implement the project, to implement an effective solution for the successful operation of the business? Only your false beliefs that have nothing to do with reality.

The worst excuse is “I’m doing a project, but not right now.” Understand that while you delay a decision, competitors will use it and benefit. Let’s say your company is in the banking business and has encountered technical difficulties in dealing with the financial markets. While you were thinking about solving the problem, a competitive company implemented a SaaS solution and started working automatically.

So, now you understand how important it is to fight false beliefs. You can use ready-made IT solutions for banking business development based on modern MSSQL, TypeScript, Angular 8, Rest and Azure technologies.
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