Hi Reader,

One of the first steps to seeing through your limiting beliefs and finding clarity is to learn how to question your assumptions — the topic for our next complimentary workshop.

I’m excited to be hosting this session on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. I invite you to reserve your spot now.

This is the fourth of the five workshops I will be hosting around the Five foundational tools for self-development.

We offer these tools in this format rather than by podcast/booklet because these tools work most powerfully when you can recognize and feel how they land in your body.

No matter what transformational path you’re taking, these simple tools will help you get better results and increase your effectiveness.

How to find clarity

When I was in my 30s, I decided to investigate my thoughts for a week and a half. In particular, my shameful, painful and self-critical thoughts.

It turns out — none of them were true. More precisely, they were both true and untrue at the same time.

Seeing this gave me a huge amount of freedom.

For example, I used to hold the belief that “People will eventually abandon me.” This was true, in the sense that people do leave, and untrue, in the sense that I had had loyal friendships for decades.

As I began to see that I didn’t have to believe my thoughts, my perspective opened up and my problems often dissolved on their own. It turns out that every problem required me to believe an assumption.

Finding the right problem statement

Questioning assumptions is a core concept we explore in many of our courses.

When we face a problem, we tend to jump straight into solving it rather than questioning the underlying assumptions. And often, the solution reveals itself once you find a false assumption.

For example, the statement: “I’m not making enough money” assumes:

• That you would know when you got to “enough.”
• That enough money solves the problems you’re facing.
• That you have to make money to have more of it.

Just to name a few.

Questioning these assumptions doesn’t mean that these things might not be true, it just means that we look a little closer at the truths and untruths of every way of looking.

The outcome of doing this is that it makes you really good at seeing through limiting beliefs and problem-solving.

When you believe your thoughts fully, you get stuck in an identity — the box of beliefs that determine your actions and possibilities.

But when you can shift your worldview and see the full breadth of perspectives, entirely new worlds open up.

It’s the difference between deciding where to journey towards from the top of a mountain, where all the paths are in your purview, or from the bottom of a ravine.

Join our workshop

In this interactive workshop, we'll delve into the process of questioning assumptions and provide you with practical tools to apply this skill in your daily life.

Through guided exercises, you'll learn how to identify and challenge the assumptions that may be limiting your growth and holding you back from achieving your goals.

By the end of the session, you'll have a clearer understanding of how to navigate complex problems and find clarity with ease.

Big Love,

Joe

P.S. Curious to learn more about this tool? Check out our podcast on Questioning Assumptions.