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Last week when I called my friend Whitney, I asked what she was doing.

She said, "Something has been stinking up my pantry, and I just found it! It's a package of burrito wrappers that went bad. I've thrown them away, and now everything is smelling better!"

And I thought, "Gosh, Beliefs can be just like that - they stink up the place until you dig them out and get rid of them."

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Thursday, April 15 2010, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Our Topic: "How to Access the Beliefs That Are Holding You Back"

Join the Create More Now Community TeleEvent to learn how to uncover Business Beliefs that interfere with your success, prosperity, and fulfillment.

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To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, I went with a good friend of Irish heritage to hear the magnificent Eileen Ivers play the fiddle with her band in their show, "Beyond Bog Road", at UNC's Memorial Hall.

Behind the band a video played with beautiful images of Ireland, archival footage about the Potato Famine that had over a million Irish emigrate in the mid-1800s, home movies of families in Ireland and America, and images of American cities - so different from the rolling green hills of Ireland. Within living memory, people who left for America from Ireland were given an "American Wake" to celebrate the journey and mourn the loss of their presence in the Irish family and community.

Like many other people, the Irish left their homeland to come to the Land of Promise in America and Canada. But it was not the Land of Milk and Honey. There was lots of hard work, discrimination, violence, and hardship. The experience of those people live on in their family - in stories, family rules, and beliefs.

The friend with whom I heard the concert last night began remembering family stories her grandmother had told about coming to America. She told of religious violence between Catholics and Protestants, job discrimination, and lack of opportunity for immigrant workers. My friend's family has done well in America, but the stories of hardship still live in her memory, passed down from her beloved grandmother. She thinks , and I agree, that what her family experienced affects how she lives her life and runs her business now. 

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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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