Outperforming Your Beliefs

Andy Andrews | March 3rd,, 2021

Outperforming Your Beliefs

If you could choose, what kind of life would you live? How? Where? Who with? Why?

  • Most have been asked and even answered but we never gave the question another thought
  • What is the trap? “if you could choose”
  • Those four words have subconsciously conditioned us to believe that you can’t do anything about it anyway. So, we shut down that part of ourselves that could actually choose.
  • You can actually choose from this point on for the rest of your life


Principle of Leveled Results: a person can never outperform his/her belief in their ability to achieve

  • It is impossible for someone to believe beyond what they truly belief about themselves
  • What a person really believes is so powerful that their belief actually controls their behaviors and results
  • You can determine what someone will achieve by finding out what they believe about themselves
  • Doesn’t’ matter what you write down as a goal but if you don’t believe it, it won’t be reached

Maybe we should pay less attention in setting unrealistic goals and focus on finding ways to increase what we really believe is possible.

Football game example:

  • Home crowd’s make some when the opponent is attempting plays so they cannot hear each other.
  • Seahawks fans consistently push the sound meter above 130 decibels.  
  • In 1984, the Seahawks retired the jersey number 12 in the honor of the fans, considered them the 12th member of the team for being such a strategic part of their game.

Suppose for a moment – You wanted to help a football coach mitigate the noise. Explain to the coach, when you are interviewed, stay calm and tell them we have that problem solved and are not worried about it. They can scream and yell but it won’t make a difference for us. Word will get out to fan base that they have that handled. Because they believe they aren’t able to make a difference then they won’t be as loud. Noise levels in stadium would actually go down.  Nothing really happened except what that fan base believed they wouldn’t make a difference. They behaved in a way that was level with their beliefs.

Belief is such a powerful force it can probably be weaponized. Belief in position. Purposely go against the boundaries of what everyone believes.

If we want an enemy to do something differently, its necessary they believe something they have never believed before.  Impose a new belief to direct the behavior. If the enemy was convinced there are invisible shields they wouldn’t even try to shoot. It could and would determine their behavior.

We are personally as susceptible to this aspect in any part of our lives.  Impose beliefs on ourselves about what is possible. Don’t have to lie, just explore a deeper version of the truth.