Assignment 2 - Overcoming Limiting Beliefs

Due date: July 24th, 2023, 10pm GMT

Instructions

  • Review the assignment brief below.
  • Complete your assignment using Google Slides.
  • Download your finished assignment as a pdf and submit on Gradescope and Woolf.

Brief

This week's assignment will require you to create a Google Slides presentation about your limiting beliefs.

Task 1 - Identify Your Limiting Beliefs

Use the information in Section 2.3 to help identify 3-5 limiting beliefs you want to overcome.

Here are some examples of limiting beliefs:

  • I’ll never be successful because I come from a poor background.
  • It’s too late for me to become better at managing my time.
  • I’m too young to create real change in the world.
  • I don’t have enough money to be in control of my life.
  • They will reject me because I’m not talented enough.
  • I don’t have time to pursue my dreams.
  • I don’t want to ask anyone for help because they will think I’m not skilled enough to succeed on my own.

Task 2 - Limiting Belief Reflection

Pick one of the limiting beliefs that you identified in task 1 and reflect on when it was formed and how it currently impacts your life by answering the following questions:

  • When do you think this belief was formed? And what was its source (e.g., family, society, a specific past experience)?
  • How does holding this limiting belief currently benefit you?
  • How does this limiting belief impact your actions?
  • What evidence is there that makes this belief true? How might it be informed by assumptions, external expectations, or stereotypes?

Task 3 - Changing Your Limiting Belief

Work on developing an alternate belief that reverses your initial limiting belief. First, answer the following question:

  • What would you predict for yourself if you no longer held this belief?

Now Reverse your belief to create an empowering belief: (e.g., I’ll probably just fail at it —> I will probably succeed.), and answer the following questions:

  • How does this empowering belief make you feel?
  • How true is this empowering belief? What evidence is there to support it?
  • If you lived this empowering belief instead of the limiting belief, what concrete actions would you take?
  • What actions could you take to help you think of your new empowering belief whenever a situation triggers the original limiting belief?

Task 4 - Presenting Your Belief Plan

You should have now gone through a process of identifying, reflecting on, and changing your limiting belief. Your final task is to put all this into an 8-10 slide presentation.

This slide presentation is what you will submit for this assignment. Your presentation should include the following information:

  • 3-5 limiting beliefs that you currently hold
  • Reflection on a chosen limiting belief (answer to the questions in task 2)
  • Prediction of how your life would be without this limiting belief
  • Your new empowering belief
  • Description of how the new empowering belief makes you feel
  • Description of what your life would look like if you lived in accordance with this new empowering belief
  • Your action plan for reminding yourself of your new empowering belief

Make sure your slides include both text and visuals.

Submission

Please save your Google Slides as a pdf file and submit your assignment on Gradescope, and then upload a copy to the Woolf platform.