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Have you put a mental ceiling on your achievements? We often sell ourselves short by not believing we can do something. But beliefs are not facts – they are just our best guess about how things are at the moment.

Have one basic, true belief: You have not yet reached the limit of what you are capable.

Keep an open mind. Do not ever announce to other people that you can’t do something, even if you think you can’t. Listen for a day or two and you will hear a string of admissions from people about what they cannot do. People will own up much more readily to what they are bad at than to what they are good at. Some people mistake this for modesty, but it is not. Modesty means not bragging about what you can do.

Don’t boast about your supposed limitations.

Negative talk just wraps you in a straitjacket of imposed limitations. If you find yourself thinking like this, add the little word ‘yet’ to the end. Then you are being realistic.

Don’t make excuses in advance or plead extenuating circumstances out loud, either. If you make an excuse in advance then you are going to need it! Take responsibility for your goals. There may be any number of good reasons why you do not get them, but if you make excuses in advance, then you have set yourself up for failure.