Carrie Heimer shares her personal journey and explores beliefs as tools, contrasting limiting and liberating beliefs, offering examples and a reflective invitation to reframe thinking and take imperfect action toward new possibilities.
Carrie greets the audience, shares logistical notes about her schedule, and begins a personal story about learning the Psychology of Achievement early in her career while facing major life changes.
She describes the law of belief from Brian Tracy, explaining how beliefs influence what we notice and attempt, and mentions a contemporary book framing beliefs as tools rather than truths.
Carrie offers quick examples contrasting limiting beliefs (e.g., 'I'm too old' or 'I'm too nervous') with liberating reframes that open possibilities and reduce suffering.
She invites viewers to identify areas where limiting beliefs hold them back, reframe those beliefs into liberating ones, and choose a first step to expand possibilities.
Carrie closes the session, mentions future live sessions, requests feedback on topics, and wishes viewers well.
Hello Cadre family. I hope you're doing well on this Wednesday. I've been changing up my times between Wednesdays and Thursdays. I'll try to settle into a better rhythm soon, but my name is Carrie Heimer and you saw the title of this live is about beliefs and so I want to have you join me on a walk down memory lane. Go back in time about 30 years and picture me as a fresh out of college by a couple of years human resource manager tasked with facilitating a workshop called the Psychology of Achievement by Brian Tracy.
Now I'm dating myself a little bit, so I would love to hear from some of you if you remember Brian Tracy, but he had a program called, as I mentioned, the Psychology of Achievement. And I had the opportunity to teach what was called the seven mental laws. What was particularly remarkable about that time in my life is I was also going through a divorce and was a single mom of a three-month-old daughter. And so I truly feel like it was a gift that I had an opportunity to be exposed to that content and facilitate it.
And in many ways, I would credit it for saving my life. One of the seven mental laws is the law of belief. And Brian Tracy talks about how what we believe shapes what we notice, what we expect, and what we're willing to try. And so in my context, I couldn't change what had happened in the circumstances that I found myself in at 24 years old with a future that was very different than what I imagined. But what I could do is change my beliefs about my future and believe that great things were possible in spite of my circumstances.
So fast forward 30 years and I continue to be fascinated with the study of beliefs. And I'm reading a book right now. I might not get the name exactly right, but it's by an author Nir Eel's book called Beyond Beliefs. And one of the things that he says is beliefs are tools, they're not truths. And he does such an interesting job. I've never heard this language before, but distinguishing between limiting beliefs versus liberating beliefs. Limiting beliefs, and I'll just read how he defines it, narrows possibility and increases suffering.
Liberating beliefs, on the other hand, open up action, possibilities, and reduce suffering. So a couple of examples that are just quick ones that I'll share. You know, one might be, I'm too old to start a new workout program. Limiting belief, changing that to my experience, my life experience is an asset. I can try new things. The other example might be, I'm feeling nervous about doing this thing. That's A limiting belief. I'm too nervous to do this thing, so I'm not going to do the thing. The liberating belief might be the fact that I'm nervous about this thing.
means that I really care about it and it really matters to me and I can take steps forward, albeit imperfectly. So changing how we frame those beliefs can fundamentally change what we're willing to try. So the invitation for you this week is think about a few things that you have wanted to try, but you haven't because you've had a limiting belief that you've found yourself stuck in. Think about how you can reframe that ever so slightly to make it a liberating belief. And then by doing that, what could be a first step that I could take to free myself from those limitations and open up the possibilities?
So that's my invitation for you this week. I look forward to seeing you again next week. I'm always interested in getting feedback on topics that you might be interested in but until we connect again I hope you take care of you and be well and we'll talk soon. Thank you.
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