186: How to Adopt a New Belief in 8 Simple Steps

Welcome to the Time to Level Up Podcast. I'm your host, Andrea Liebross. Each week, I focus on the systems, strategy, and big thinking you need to CEO your business and life to the next level. Are you ready? Let's go.

Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the Time to Level Up Podcast. Now, something exciting, this is the last episode ever that I will call the Time to Level Up Podcast because next week, I will still be here in the same subscription feed as you are listening to right now, however, this podcast will have a new name.

Next week's episode is going to be really a key episode for you to listen to because you're going to learn how, why I changed the name, the process I went through, how you can glean some of the learning that I had during this process and apply it to your own business.

Next week, tune in on Tuesday. If you are listening to these as they are dropped. If you're a listener who listens right away, it's going to be the July 16th, 2024 episode with a new name, but the same people in the Time to Level Up Podcast.

Leading up to that, I wanted to do an episode on how to believe new things and the steps you need to take to believe new things. Because believing new things was part of this whole process.

Believing new things was a challenge for me. I know it's a challenge for a lot of you because I hear from you that it's a challenge. I've done episodes in the past about belief plans and why you need to believe in order to grow your business. You need to believe in yourself and others and all the things.

But today what I wanted to do is give you the six steps to believing new things, to forming new beliefs. Here we go. Are you ready? This is going to be a note-taker episode.

Number one, you have to be willing to be wrong and/or emotionally vulnerable. Here's what I mean. I had to believe that changing the name, shifting the name, or rebranding the podcast was the right move at this stage of my business, and I have to be willing to be wrong. I mean, maybe this is going to be a big flop.

I have to also be willing to take some criticism. I have to be willing to be a little scared. Too many of us instead of believing new things or instead of being willing to be wrong or being emotionally vulnerable, get triggered or we're defensive or we experience shame.

But step one is being willing to be wrong and emotionally vulnerable, which leads us to step two. You've got to allow this new belief to be possible and then probable and then inevitable.

I had to believe that rebranding would be possible. It seemed like a lot of steps when we first started out. Then I had to believe that it was probable, it was probably going to happen sooner or later. Then I got to the point in around March that I believed it was inevitable.

But that was an evolution. It didn't happen overnight. Even though other people thought it should have happened sooner than it did, I didn't believe that. I had to first believe it was possible, and then it was probable, and then it was inevitable. This really goes down to the general overall concept in new beliefs is that they have to be practiced. Possible, probable, inevitable, that's practicing.

Step three is making it your core, and finding evidence to support it. Arguing for, “Yes, if we do this, XYZ is going to happen.” Arguing for the after the belief comes true. You've gotta find evidence to support this belief.

You may be borrowing evidence from other people, other people who have rebranded their podcast have gone on to do bigger and better things or serve more or more people who have found the podcast, which is one of my things. I want more people to be able to find this podcast. I have to search for evidence and I have to argue that once we do this, it's going to be amazing. That's step three.

Then step four, I have to hold the feeling of excitement, of determination, of commitment. I have to hold it for 30 seconds, then 60 seconds, then an hour, and then a day. I have to hold that feeling of confidence in this new belief, believing this new belief for little periods of time that grow, grow, grow, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, an hour, a day. That's practicing too.

Sometimes people say, “Yeah, I can get there, but then I quickly go back. I can get to believing that it might happen, but then I can quickly go back.” No, you've got to practice holding it for longer periods of time.

Then, which goes to step five, you've got to stay with it even when you doubt. Even when someone says, “No way, Jose.” Then you can't do that. Even when someone or something seems to get in your way or there's a bottleneck. You've got to stay with it even when.

This kind of goes back to sometimes I say, "How long are you willing to try? How long are you willing to work at it? How long are you willing to stay true or stay steadfast to this belief?"

Which goes to step six. You have to normalize the new you trying it. I have to normalize the new me trying on the new name. I have to normalize that it might not feel right at the beginning. I have to normalize that even if it doesn't feel right, I'm in it for the long haul.

You've got to normalize your thought that your business can make a million dollars. You have to normalize that you're going to have just big amazing clients and not a bunch of little small ones who suck the energy out of you. You have to normalize all that, and you have to trust it.

That goes to number seven. Number seven is trusting it, trusting it. That is number seven, trusting, which goes back to big thinking, remember, because what is big thinking? Big thinking is trusting your future you.

Do you see how this is all tied together? You have to trust that the outcome that you want from this belief is going to be amazing. It's going to be extraordinary. It's not just going to be ordinary. It's going to be extraordinary.

Then the last step, step eight, is you've got to give it time. You've got to give it energy. You've got to give it grace. Because it may not always look perfect. But if you're trying to form a new belief, you have to, number one, be willing to be wrong and emotionally vulnerable. Number two, you've got to allow it to be possible and then probable and then inevitable.

Step three, you have to make that belief come from your core. You have to find or borrow evidence. You have to argue for the after. The after-the-belief is inevitable. You've got to argue for that. You've got to rep it.

Number four, you've got to hold on to the feeling that the belief gives you excitement, courage, and curiosity, even if it's just for 30 seconds, 60 seconds, a minute, or a day. Then you've got to step five, stay with it, even when it gets really hard, even when there are doubters, even when you're doubting yourself.

Then number six, you have to normalize the new you. You have to normalize that future you who has the belief. You have to trust in yourself and your big thinking. Trust in yourself and your big thinking, that's number seven. Then number eight, you've got to give it time.

Three kinds of big premises here that I'm operating on are, number one, you have to believe this even if it's just for 10 seconds right away. You have to have a smidge of belief right away and that's what comes from meeting that future you.

Number two, you have to get coached. You have to be part of a community that's going to support you. There's the securing support. Then number three, you have to really work on these new beliefs in order for them to give you the results that you're looking for.

Okay, my friends. This was a very short and sweet episode, but I think the message is so important, and the messaging right now in this time frame right before I release and rebrand the podcast with its new name, this is very timely because I've been doing this exact process with this rebranding launch.

I've had to believe that it is the best thing for my business. I've had to work through it even when I doubt it. I've had to go from possible to probable to inevitable and I'm almost there, we have a week to go.

I've had to be vulnerable and tell people that I'm scared and I'm not sure this is going to work. Is this really even necessary? I mean, after all, nothing's really wrong. But these are kind of the mental exercises that I put myself through, just like I put myself through physical exercises.

You can do this too. I have 100% confidence that you can do the same sort of thing. Okay, my friends, make sure that you are subscribed to my email list so that you will be up to date with all the things with the branding of the podcast.

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All right, until next time. Now is the time to think bigger. Now is the time to level up your belief because that is what's going to get you there. See you next week.

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