I've just facilitated a teleseminar series called "Unsticking Your Business" with a group of wonderful Conscious Entrepreneurs. During the 3 weeks of the class, each participant gained her own insights about Beliefs that are limiting her success and have resolved conflicts those Beliefs were causing in her business. Everyone is moving ahead with updated Beliefs about her business success.

One participant, whom I'll call Sally, talked about the process of becoming aware of her limiting Beliefs. Every time she talked, in my imagination I would see her walking into a dark room and bumping into big pieces of furniture - Victorian horsehair couches, elaborate coffee tables, and oversized ottomans. Hard on the shins when you can't see where you are going!

Our Beliefs can be like that - putting obstacles in our way. We can trip over a limiting Belief numerous times because we can't see it, but it's definitely there. 

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Last night NOVA's Digital Nation made a studied inquiry into how information technology is changing the way we interact and think. Students at MIT who are "high multi-taskers" (they are constantly texting, IM'ing, checking email, Facebook, and Twitter to stay in touch) believe that they are smart enough to be highly functional as they multi-task.

New research is proving them wrong. They ARE smart, no doubt about it. But they spend more energy changing focus than accomplishing as much as they think. This has a lot of educators, researchers, psychologists, and parents concerned about diminishing attention spans and sustained thought processes in students and young adults. Even those of us past the student years struggle with a deluge of input.

This research proves how easy it is to delude ourselves about what is really happening. It feels productive to be in constant motion - texting here, tweeting there, posting a clever Facebook comment everywhere. But it's not necessarily helping you gain traction in your business.

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