The Colour of Belief

A rather small and innocuous word that hides a multitude of performance woes and yet little is written or possibly understood about its importance, or even how to change it for the better.

Human beings are driven by belief, it’s in their DNA and whatever you believe in, you are of course correct.

In other words, belief is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies where you are always right and maybe herein lies a tale.

I liken self-belief to colour blindness.  Whatever colour you believe it is, it is for you that colour, regardless of whether all around you see it differently.

So, does this form of rationale from a psychological perspective lead to the same form of metaphorical blindness, where what we believe is what we are, supported by our past experiences?  Or are we able to firstly identify the true belief score and then set about increasing it in line with new expectation thereby changing the colour of success and belief?

I chose the colour blindness metaphor with due care because in fact, should we dare to consider changing the colour of how we see belief then in fact we can measure a significant increase in the imposter!

How simple.  Identify the colour of belief as you see it, dare to change it in your mind and focus for a few seconds a day on your new belief colour and like magic it starts to work.

Businesses require, amongst many things, to have their top teams believing that they can, auditing their belief scoring and aligning to the new individual or team colours that inspire “total belief”.

I suppose if it was that simple everyone would do it.  Don’t be mad!  Remember, we’re all somewhat colour blind when the pressure is on and performance eludes us and anyway it only works so why bother!

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