Developing our emotions and our emotional intelligence is one of the most powerful ways to leverage how we use our time and energy. How much of your work is devoted to working with, responding to, and meeting with others – within your organization and outside your organization?

Toward the end of his book Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman titles one chapter “The Billion Dollar Mistake.” In it he describes how emotional change requires more than intellectual understanding. Organizations that introduce programs for developing emotional change and then teach its principles as though teaching computer science usually find that the results are sorely lacking. Emotional change requires practice and repetition. Grasping for what is known and seemingly safe, even when it holds you back or undermines you, is a difficult behavior to change. This underscores the need to experiment regularly with several practices — such as daily meditation, openly receiving feedback, learning to be a better listener, and creating positive routines in your life.

Try this:
Make a list of what you think of as your limiting beliefs. Just write them down, notice them; bring them into awareness.
Then ask yourself — are these beliefs true?
Why do I think they are true?
What if they were not true?