Self-fulfilling prophecies

If you have ever heard the phrase ‘a self-fulfilling prophecy’, this is precisely what we are talking about. All this means is that once you have stated that a particular course of action is likely to produce a specific result, you tend to start behaving as though this is a foregone conclusion. In other words, you get what you expect.

Do you want to fail at anything? Most of us don’t, but we don’t get any support to try to overcome our weaker areas. We hear ourselves stating that we cannot do something (see above list) and other people are listening, have no reason to discourage us from this belief and, consequently, behave as though this were true.

This is also known as a limiting belief. We do it to ourselves.