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2.3 The Belief System 1
2.3 The Belief System 1
system
Lesson 2.3
Strengthening
your belief
Force Field
Analysis
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Understanding your belief system
Muhammad Ali once said, “To be a great champion, you must believe you are the
experiences.
A belief would be the soul of your decision.
Empowering belief is those who provide you with positive dispositions, make you
a better person, give you freedom, and help you seek solutions.
A limiting belief tends to limit your potential and possibilities and causes scare.
Earl Nightingale quotes, “We become what we think about most of the time, and
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Examples of empowering and limiting belief
I’ll be an expert.
plan.
A determined man cannot be paralyzed
to reach them.
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Strengthening your belief
About chance: Chance does not exist. Opportunity is not part of the success or failure equation.
One succeeds because he does well enough. One fails because he has not done well enough.
You don’t believe in chances. It’s your exerted effort that makes you successful.
About failure: There is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Every time you and your team
faces failure, you don’t treat it as a failure; instead, it’s the feedback that you need to talk over
and analyze for improvement so that you will not commit the same.
About knowledge: It is not easy to understand everything and be able to use all the things that
you know. There is nothing to be scared of if you can accept that you do not know everything.
As an entrepreneur, all you have to do to fill in your lack of knowledge to something is to hire
About communication: How effective your communication is reflected in the response you get. If
someone does not understand you, it is you to blame, and you must change how you
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Force Field Analysis
decisions and increase your chances of success. Force Field Analysis is one such
technique and, in this article and in the video, below, we'll explore what it is and
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Force Field Analysis
making decisions by
analyzing the forces for
your decision.
How to Use the Tool
Step 1: Describe
Step 2: Identify
Step 3: Identify
Step 4: Assign
Your Plan or
Forces For
Forces Against
Scores
Proposal for
Change Change
Change
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ACTIVITY
Using the Force Field Analysis diagram, do the following;
a. Make a detailed list of your beliefs.
b. Identify in one arrow (forces for change arrows) your "empowering beliefs" and in the
other shaft (force resisting change) your "limiting beliefs."
c. Assign scores in each list of beliefs (empowering beliefs to score 1-5 and limiting
beliefs score 1-5 also) from 1 to 5, where five is the most dominant and one is least
dominant.
d. Based on the scores assigned what is the best way to:
1. Maintain your most dominant empowering belief
2. Enhance your least dominant empowering belief
3. Minimize or eliminate your most dominant limiting belief
4. Eliminate your least dominant limiting belief
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