Serena Williams and a Toronto Dance Salsa instructor share how belief drives winning. One man read The Power of Your Subconscious Mind and it changed his class outcomes. Evan Carmichael argues belief shapes reality: lottery winners, wealthy people, and his own business all prove that what you believe about yourself determines what you achieve.
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Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is: I believe!
Over to you, Serena Williams.
I always believe I can win. I never go into a tournament saying I'm gonna lose, you know. I just think, first of all, that's bad thinking. And I'm just thinking, oh, I never, I never say, oh, I hope to do this, or I hope to, you know, be her always going to a tournament thinking, "I have a chance to win or else I'm not going to play." So what do you think?
I love Serena Williams and I always followed her on how inspiring she was and I definitely can connect on the subject of always believing that you can win. Recently I started training to be an instructor in TDS and I personally didn't think I can do it, you know, I always doubt myself but I still do it anyway. And first couple of times when I came out and I was being trained to be instructor in front in front of students, I always was scared at the beginning. I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna be so not funny, they're not gonna understand what I'm saying. You know, like I always start with doubting myself. And the truth is that as soon as you start doubting yourself, you become more nervous. You know, you're hesitating too much. Lately when I come to the class, I have such an excited, like I'm excited myself. And when I go out there, I believe that at the end of the day, I'm gonna have students who are gonna leave with learning something and having fun in the class. So as soon as I started changing my thinking that, hey, I'm not gonna go out there and fail, things changed a little for me. I'm starting to see a difference in even if there's something that I don't know yet, and I haven't been teaching for a long time, when I'm positive, when I know that it's gonna go well, when I know at the end of the day winning means that I'm gonna have customers who are happy and leaving the class happily, it works. I read this book called The Power of Subconscious Mind, and since I read that book, I always believed that there's always truth in believing that you're going to win. There's always going to be failures, there's always going to be mistakes that people make, but at the end of the day, if you make yourself believe that you're going to be successful, there's a higher chance. I, I really believe there's a higher chance that you're going to succeed.
I love it. I think there's a funny thing in life where you, you get what you believe that you can get. You know, you see people who win a lottery and the next year they're back to their level of whatever income they had. They've blown all the money. And if you take money away from someone who's been super successful, they can usually get back to that level really quickly. They have standards, right? They believe in themselves. They don't accept what's around them right now, right? If I, if I think I should be here and I really believe it to my core and I'm playing down here, I know I'm gonna get there. Where if I believe I'm down here and this is where my beliefs are, then I'm likely not gonna get to that next level. You know, for me, I look at this business, right? TDS, Toronto Dance Salsa, and I already see a business that's 3 times the size of what we're at currently right now. I believe it, it's gonna happen. We're gonna make our way to get to that point. You know, I've done it in another business before, and so it's my mindset, right? It's gonna happen. And so that's the approach that I take going into every meeting we have, every class we have, every business decision that we have. And so that's gonna lead to the path of us actually achieving that goal. Where my mindset was, you know, whatever revenue we're at now, that's as good as we're going to be, then that's where we're going to stay forever. And so changing the beliefs so that you actually think that you can accomplish more than what you're getting now is the game. Because when you figure that out, then you quickly rise up to match those beliefs.
So the question of the day today is: When you never achieved something, how do you believe that you're actually going to do that?
Getting deep on the questions today. You got hit with a bow and arrow. That's what happens when you do films with a 6-year-old in the studio. Leave your answers in the comments below, we're gonna join in the discussion. Thank you so much for watching, have an amazing day, continue to believe, and we'll see you again tomorrow morning for another Shot of Espresso!
