Your Beliefs Shape Your Destiny

With over 8 billion people, your story is unique. Family, friends, coaches, and media shape your beliefs, for better or worse. Their views on success, money, relationships, and your potential become part of you, often subconsciously. Positive influences can build confidence and resilience, while negative ones—like distrust or self-doubt—can limit you. These ideas, repeated over time, create your worldview, guiding your path not toward your true potential but toward what you’ve been taught to believe.

For example, a child told, “We can’t afford it,” may grow up with a scarcity mindset. Another, in the same situation, hears, “How can you earn it?” and learns resourcefulness. One believes money is scarce; the other, that hard work opens doors. Similarly, labels like “smart” or “clumsy” stick, shaping self-perception. A boy taught to distrust women may struggle with relationships, while a girl encouraged to emulate successful female CEOs can chase big dreams. These transferred beliefs can steer your destiny toward or, too often, away from who you’re meant to be.

False beliefs, ingrained early, can frustrate your inborn vision for your life by causing you to believe they’re absolute truth. But they’re not. Your beliefs about yourself, others, and the world around you shape every part of your life—relationships, career, happiness, how you handle stress, and how much risk you’ll take on. Recognizing and challenging these false beliefs about what’s possible can set you free to become who you were designed to be.

Dr. Scott Zarcinas' Mindset Transformation

Dr. Scott Zarcinas, a doctor and life coach from Adelaide, Australia, delayed his writing dream for 15 years after high school, held back by the limiting belief that he "lacked natural talent." This mindset kept him from pursuing authorship, leading to a different career. Overcoming this, he shifted to believing in his potential through action. He published his first book, The Golden Chalice: A Pilgrim’s Chronicle, and has since written 10 books (5 fiction, 5 non-fiction), with an eleventh underway—over 1 million words.

Will you take your pen back?

Have you blamed others or yourself for your setbacks or lack of progress? If so, stop looking back. Put the pen back in your hands and start writing the story the way you want it to end. You can do this by focusing your thoughts on what you want instead of what you don’t have or don’t want and by developing a growth mindset (embrace challenges, persist in setbacks, learn from criticism and mistakes, see effort as a path to mastery, and find lessons and inspiration from others’ success) like Lisa did. If you need a coach, hit me up on the contact page.