Every person alive has a set of core values and beliefs about life that influences the
vision they have of the future and even sometimes the past. These core values and
beliefs are often developed in childhood and can be strongly tilted toward success or
failure, as well as abundance or lack.
You get a lot of these ideas from your parents, but they also come from general society.
The TV shows you watched growing up, the friends you had, their parents, your
teachers and whatever was happening in the world as you grew up that is reflected on
the news affects your values and beliefs as well. Many of these things in your mind you
don’t even know are there.
Therefore, you often act unconsciously to things that strike at those core values and
beliefs. Sometimes those actions lead you down the wrong path. Through working on
your personal development, you’re going to become much more self-aware about your
core values and beliefs and why you have specific ideas or not.
Positive & Negative Core Beliefs
Everyone has both positive and negative core beliefs. The more positive thoughts you
have, the more positive you will behave, as you embark on achievement. These positive
beliefs include things like believing you are worthy, safe, competent and capable,
appreciated, accepted, knowledgeable, and so forth.
Negative beliefs are often focused and based on your personality or inner-self, as well
as on a negative thought that someone had about you or based on something you said
about yourself. These can be very limiting to your self-esteem. That’s why you can meet
two people, who have the same job, make the same amount of money, and one will be
happy and satisfied, while the other person will inwardly feel miserable.
Finding Out Core Values & Beliefs Are Negative
You may not even realize you have beliefs that are causing you to be held back. If
you’ve watched person after person succeed at something that you want to do, are you
able to identify why to improve it or are you not able to accept that a core idea or belief
you have is erroneous? One idea a lot of people have that is very limiting is the idea of
money being finite. The truth is more money can always be made, but you may have to
create it first. Once you find out that you have negative core beliefs, you can work on
turning them into positives.
Willingness to Change Brings More Success

If you want to embark on a journey to personal development, be willing to challenge
your core beliefs, ideas, and even the vision you have created for your life. Until you
know what’s true, accurate, and based on facts rather simply on opinions or false
beliefs, it’ll be hard to envision how far you can go towards the advancements you want
to make. It may be the difference between deciding to become a Doctor or a Nurse.
Neither career is a wrong choice. However, one might be better for you, when
considering your likes, dislikes, existing skills, your health, and your interests, goals,
and other preferences.
As you work through your development plan in all aspects of your life, you’ll come to
many surprising realizations. Some of them will be a surprise, others, not so much. The
critical point is to realize that the ideas you have right now, even your most core beliefs
and values may change once you find out it’s not true. For instance, it’s not true that you
can’t lose weight. It’s not true that you cannot start your own business. It’s not true that
you aren’t good enough. If you find that you have limiting core beliefs and values, you
will want to work on those first. Without the inside taken care of, it’s hard to fix
everything else.