Paul is joined by Ravi Nair to talk about belief, why it’s so important and how it’s such an influential aspect of our lives.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
When we believe in something we start talking about it and that leads into action. For example, I pray every day and I go to the Hindu temple occasionally. Whatever you do on a daily basis becomes a habit, if you wish well for everybody that becomes a habit for you. Your habits start to become your values and your values start becoming your destiny. Beliefs are so important because they have a direct impact on your destiny.
It’s hard to give up beliefs, even if we know they are self-limiting. Your beliefs are often connected to your identity, so if you let go of that belief it will impact your identity. If someone is rude or aggressive, but his behaviour has helped get him ahead in life, to become a boss, if his mind somewhere he believes this behaviour brings him success and the position he’s attained in life. If someone were to say “I don’t think you should be so rude to people” he will feel that if he gives up that behaviour he will lose a part of his identity that makes him successful.
Once you’re aware that you only have access to limited information around which you’ve built a belief, you’ll start to look for more information and you won’t get stuck to that belief. Perhaps you’ll even find that that belief was wrong. Your belief had a direct impact on your emotions, and your emotions put you into motion, so if you end up getting any self-limiting belief the emotion linked to that is negative and will stop you making positive motion.
The good news is you can recognise a self-limiting belief just from the words you choose. “I do/I don’t” is a belief in how we define our capability. “I do believe that I will be rich” talks to that person’s belief in regards to their capability to be rich. Another person might say “I don’t think I can make this relationship work” . This is a classic example of a person talking about their inability to make a relationship work. Both these statements define the person’s belief in regards to their capability. Always watch out for the words “I do/I don’t”. “I can’t” is about self-image, it’s seeing yourself as not having will power. “I should/I shouldn’t” statements after these words are limiting-beliefs arising from shame and judgement or obligation. “I am/I am not” statements are beliefs about themselves personally. “But”: This word is so powerful that even if you have a positive belief the word ‘but’ creates doubt and makes it a negative belief. You can change your belief by playing around with the sentences.
BEST MOMENTS
‘You can create your destiny depending on the beliefs you have.’
‘If you have a thought again and again and again, it will become a belief for you. Beliefs manifest at the conscious and subconscious level, so sometimes we’re not even aware of them.’
‘There is always a hidden fear under every belief. For example, the belief that you’re good at one-to-one communication comes from a fear of public speaking.’
‘When you use the right words, you can change your beliefs.’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Paul’s Story: Emerging From The Forest (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emerging-Forest-Pain-Purpose-Mastering/dp/1719373272
Paul’s Story: Emerging From The Forest (USA): https://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Forest-Pain-Purpose-Mastering/dp/1719373272
Mastering The Game Of Life Book (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Game-Life-Paul-Lowe/dp/1782227679
Mastering The Game Of Life Book (USA): https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Game-Life-Paul-Lowe/dp/1782227679
Speaking From Our Hearts Books: Volumes 1-3 (Available on Amazon)
World Game-Changers Group
ABOUT THE GUEST
As the Founder and CEO of Rich Minds, Ravi is fondly known as a Mind Architect amongst his colleagues, friends, clients and fellow beings. As a CEO, he defines his role as someone who is responsible for Creating Extraordinary Outcomes (CEO).
Ravi served the United States Government for 14 years and another 16 years in the private sector. These 30 years provided him ample opportunities to interact with people from different origins, cultures, belief systems, traditions and mindsets.
Empowering people to build, grow and positively transform their lives and businesses with ease and joy, is what Ravi considers a rewarding experience. His unique, creative style of coaching has benefited some of the most reputed organisations and individuals across the globe.
He mastered the art of coaching using advanced Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and International Coaching Federation certified coaching tools and he is also an alumni from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.
He translated his learnings into a book titled ‘Weekend Miracle’ and the love of an appreciative audience turned it into an Amazon Best Seller. ( https://bit.ly/Weekend-Miracle)
His obsession with the science behind the human mind led him to pen a rap song titled ‘Mind Body Affair’ which bagged the Bronze Medal at the Global Music Awards in 2019. (https://bit.ly/Mind-Body-Affair-by-Ravi-Nair)
Ravi was conferred several awards during his career spanning 30 years, and some of them are:
The Benjamin Franklin Award, named after the founding father of the United States.
The Meritorious Honor Award by the former United States Ambassador, David Mulford.
Exemplary performance Award by Dr. Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, United States of America
Ravi completed and completed one of the toughest Ultra-Hill Marathons in India, which got his name into the Guinness Book of World Record.
Ravi juggles between his multiple businesses in India. He is on the board of two companies namely Teamedge Services Pvt. Ltd and Guardwell Prime Services Pvt. Ltd (www.teamedge.in), which is India’s premier Staffing & Security Company.
Besides this, Ravi is a very active and Associate Member of United States Indian Importers Council (www.usiic.in), a platform which facilitates US-INDIA Trade.
www.therichminds.club
ABOUT THE HOST
Paul has made a remarkable transformation from existing for many years in dark, desperate despair; to now living a really healthy, happy and fulfilling life.
From an early age, he was in the vice-like clutches of the demon drink and constantly embroiled within a dark cocktail of toxic beliefs, self-hate and destructive violence.
Along with his empathetic and dedicated team of world-class coaches and mentors, Paul’s purpose is deeply transformational:
Creating New Life Stories…
He is extremely passionate about helping others to find their purpose, have a voice and ultimately, make a real difference.
This has been built on a long and distinguished history of heart-centred coaching and mentoring. He has also been responsible for raising significant amounts of funds for many charities and good causes around the world; positively impacting and inspiring thousands of children – mainly from challenging backgrounds – within the UK & worldwide.
Through this World Game-Changers podcast and books, he has been involved in – including being a best-selling co-author – Paul also helps others to get their own inspirational messages and stories out into the world; as well as offering support to many charitable organisations, in their development & fund-raising.
CONTACT METHODS
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