Head Trash is the limiting beliefs you have. I have them, too. They're different from yours, but the effects are similar and bad, so we should talk about them.
A limiting belief is, foremost, an unconscious belief. You are not aware of it. If you were, it would not stick around very long: like fog in the sunshine, it'd "burn off" and you would be free of it.
And the worst thing about head trash is this: you don't suspect you could be a victim of it.
You're walking around with your point of view of the world...and you think it's 'normal,' the only way anyone could possibly see things.
"It ain't."
Head Trash and Your Point of View
The point of view you have at the moment is weird...individual..."site specific" if you will.
We all have limiting beliefs. When you find one, and clear it, another takes its place higher up the perception spiral. I'm not sure we'll ever be free of them.
But we can definitely identify and clear out the limiting beliefs most weighing us down right now!
Imagine Pareto's Law, aka the 80/20 Rule, applied to your life:
A small number of decisions have the majority of the effect upon your life.
A small number of perceptive filters have a big effect upon your business.
The decisions are driven by the filters.
You act on what you believe to be true.
What you believe to be true is what you think is possible.
If you view yourself as "the janitor," you're not going to walk up to the CEO and propose a deal, are you.
Your perception of that role would be a limiting belief.
It's possible for someone to take on the job of janitor, but not identify with the role of janitor as their personality, you understand. But for nearly everyone, they'd get sucked into that view of themselves because of the role they took on.
And that would block them from doing this or that action because "janitors don't do that."
Are you starting to see what I'm demonstrating here?
Head Trash is a collection of limiting beliefs that stop you from doing what you'd really like to do.
How do you identify you've got head trash?
When you find yourself saying, "I can't do that"—usually to yourself—stop and ask yourself, "Why not?" Write the answers down. Review them: there's your head trash.
The Granddaddy of Head Trash: Money Tolerance
Money Tolerance is a critical limiting belief. It's a highly effective thermometer to tell you exactly how you're feeling about yourself at this very moment.
How much is "a lot of money" for you? Who told you that number? Where'd it come from? Because it's a BS story: thousands of people out there, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, believe whatever number you said is a tiny amount. (The typical range for the garden variety human is $500 - $2500, by the way.) If you believe the BS story that $2500 is "a lot of money," how on Earth will you ever invest in a $5000 program to help yourself or your business? And how will you ever sell a $5000 offer? You can't! You'll find ways to screw the sale up.
Fortunately, Money Tolerance is a head trash limiting belief, and the goal posts can be moved. Yes, there is a lower limit to Money Tolerance as well as the more visible high figure...I won't bother to sell $50 items, for example, because it's a "waste of my time and energy." (How many good money-making opportunities am I cutting myself off from because of that 'truth'? I well know making money is only about Traffic and Conversion, and if we can get those numbers high enough we can make plenty of money on a $50 offer. But somehow it's still a "waste of my time." Exploring this belief would open up possibilities to me that exist now, but I have cut off from my perception. See?)
When you find yourself blocked, self-painted into a corner, unable to proceed...ask yourself, "Why? What do I believe about this situation?"
Why can't you move to another city?
Why can't you start that business?
Why can't you approach this prospect?
I'll give you another example of head trash before we finish.
A Personal Example of Head Trash In Action
In the past year or so I've been working on getting into the Space field. To do that, I've been meeting, engaging with, and doing interviews with Space experts.
There's a guy who runs what I consider to be the best explainer channel on YouTube for Space, and the rapidly rising subscriber count echos that statement. But for a year, though I connected with him on Facebook, I didn't "feel right" about approaching him to be an interview guest.
Some limiting beliefs held me back.
I was only able to ask him a couple months back, and then had to wait around 45 days for the actual interview date to come around after we booked. I had to get another Space expert on my show before I could ask this person to be a guest.
Would he have been a guest much sooner if I had just asked outright? If I had simply been comfortable with asking him a year ago? Probably (we'll never truly know, but I strongly suspect so)!
But I felt I needed "credibility" first in this situation.
See how that held me back for at least six months from proceeding in the direction I wanted to move in?
That I needed "Space" credibility was my limiting belief. There's something about self-worth in this field, a gap that I believed I needed to make up before moving forward.
These things are not rational.
You may have a low money tolerance because as a small child you heard your parents arguing about a $600 washing machine purchase in one of those "listening at the top of the stairs" moments. That number got installed for you, as most head trash is. And for decades you've been walking around with this unconscious belief fueling the voice in your head that says, "That's a lot of money!" whenever you encounter a price at or above it. "Yeah," you reply to yourself unconsciously. "It sure is." And this drives your emotions and actions.
Identify that moment, clear it, replace it with something else (note that it'll be a NEW limiting belief: a higher figure of "That's a lot of money," but still a fake story you're telling yourself!), and your range of possibilities will expand.
Few things are more exciting than getting rid of head trash, and observing what you or someone you like can now imagine as possible.
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