My guest today is Megan O’Neill, a Business Mindset Strategist with international clientele. For over 18 years, Megan has assisted clients to break-fee of limiting core beliefs, fears and patterns. Her work specializes in the area of entrepreneurial mindset—helping clients understand why they're operating the way they are, and then working to clear it at a deep level so they can transform to who they really are!
Megan’s CBE journey began after realizing she logically and cognitively knew what her blocks were, but was stuck and couldn’t make the changes she really needed. Fortunately, the universe intervened—she received a pamphlet in the mail about a workshop on a method called Core Belief Engineering (CBE). After experiencing amazing results with CBE, Megan realized this is what she was meant to do and spent the next few years training in this mindset technique. She hasn’t looked back since and has enjoyed many wonderful years assisting her clients to create freedom for themselves by transforming themselves into who they really are.
Today, Megan focuses on helping entrepreneurs and small business owners from all over the world to get out of their own way by busting through their mindset blocks, so they can align with their business vision and make money without killing themselves.
This season of my podcast is all about the beliefs and the rules that are either holding us back or that we need to start letting go of so that we can reach our full potential. If we don't see what is holding us back, if we don't notice these blocks, then we're stopping ourselves from creating the life and business we want.
Rules and Beliefs are the same thing
Megan believes people have an understanding of what beliefs are, but they don’t understand how pervasive they are and how these beliefs determine what their reality is. Beliefs create your reality. They determine how you see the world. Just imagine you're wearing glasses, your beliefs are the lenses in which you see the world.
Rules are a set of beliefs
The good news is, beliefs are malleable. You can change them. We’re always changing our beliefs. We're growing and we're learning. One example Megan gives is, if you're a parent, you don't generally believe half of what your parents believed and how they brought up their kids. You have very different beliefs on child rearing, because you've grown, you have different information, you have different life experiences, so your beliefs are always changing.
Outdated beliefs
The reason we keep coming back to these old beliefs is because we think that they're doing well for us. Some of it might just be habit, but when you think about it and you have conversations with people, they really believe something to be true, but there's a reason that they're hanging onto this. It's because they think this belief is helping them. Always ask yourself what's the benefit of holding on to this belief?
A rule is something that's really familiar, you most likely grew up with it. It's something that you thought to be true and you've never questioned it, therefore it seems like an absolute truth. But truth is subjective.
Question the rules
So, these are our beliefs, these are the rules and we've never questioned them. Start questioning them.
Megan does this with her clients. She will ask them to ask themselves, is this really true? Is this still working for you? People take on rules at a younger age, they often absorb them from their parents or society, and they've been ticking along following those rules, and they have seemed safe for them, so that even when they're not working for the person anymore, they haven't questioned it. They haven't asked themselves whether or not it still works.
Start questioning the rules that are assumed to be true, or if it feels uncomfortable or if it feels like it's not working for you anymore. We need to be willing to think that what we thought before is no longer what we need to think moving forward. And if you're feeling resistant around that, what is it about it that's making you feel resistant? What do you think is going to happen?
Start to imagine that there's another way of doing things. Just imagine. Megan’s clients will often argue and say, "Well you know, this is reality, Megan. This is the way you must do it." Must, should. They get really locked into that, and that's kind of almost like a protectionism. If you can just start to imagine that things can be different, and things can change, and that beliefs are malleable, then I think that there's a whole world that will be opened up to you.
To learn more about Megan and how method of coaching can help you, visit: www.meganoneill.ca or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Megancorebeliefs/
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