People Do What People Believe

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7)

Living on purpose means living authentically.

This means that your day to day actions line up with who you really are – your core beliefs and values.

You can tell what you really believe by what you do every day.

Rory Vaden puts it well in his ‘Law of the Pendulum’ – if you really want to know what someone believes in, all you have to do is look at their calendar and their chequebook.

How you spend your time and your money is a good indication of what you really believe in, what your priorities are.

Often people will launch into New Year Resolutions or try to change their actions and behaviour without dealing with the root of their actions – what they believe.

It may work for a while, but sooner or later their subconscious conspires to bring their behaviour back in line with who they really are.

You cannot consistently behave in a manner that is inconsistent with who you really are.

So are you stuck? Do you have some behaviour that you have been trying to change for years?

Take a deeper look at what you really believe.

Get your belief system straightened out first, and then the desired behaviour will follow.

Learn more about developing empowering belief systems in the next post.