The highest-yielding action is what you think.

Q: What would you say is your most productive action?

I’m in a business mastermind group and it is amazing how much time is spent on “taking action.”

But not all actions are created equal.

Some action gets us farther in our goals than other actions.

The highest yielding action is what you think.

Here’s what I mean by that:

Deliberately managing what you are thinking is the most productive action you can take.

Our thoughts cause our brains to release chemicals into our bodies.

Those chemicals create our emotions.

Therefore, our thoughts create our emotions.

Those emotions drive the action we take.

But working on what thoughts we are paying attention to takes action.

Belief work is action.

Being aware of what we are thinking is action.

Seeing what we are thinking and choosing to change it to thinking something else is action.

This is called belief work.

Belief work is the kind of action that raises the quality of your next action.

When you think high-quality thoughts about yourself and your impact, you take action that reflects those thoughts.

It’s a continuous spiral upward when we spend time noticing and working on what we are thinking.

What does the action of belief work look like?

Changing or letting go of any limiting belief is the key to up-leveling the results we’re creating.

Belief work is often a daily thing for me.

But it feels very easy.

It’s easy because it often happens within my real life.

1. Active Awareness

I use my Active Awareness process to notice what I am currently thinking.

I look at my current beliefs and thoughts without judgment.

I then decide if it’s a belief I want to keep or if changing it in some way might be useful to me.

After noticing the current belief, I question the truthfulness of it.

In the beginning, I really believe the thing is true. It often doesn’t even seem possible that it isn’t true!

I usually have a lot of evidence to believe it.

But having evidence doesn’t mean I have to just believe it.

If it isn’t a useful belief to have, I want to work on letting it go in favor of something more useful.

This is where my coach is really helpful.

She can hear things that I say and question them.

She can help me poke at them and shift them.

I can start to see the possibility that maybe they aren’t as true as I originally thought.

Once I have decided that I want to believe something new, I’m open and ready for a new belief to emerge.

2. Believe Something New

What comes next is really fun.

It’s full of your own creativity and figuring out what works for you.

I give myself a million chances to believe the new thing.

Using my SPEAK it, HEAR it, SEE it, THINK it strategy, I flood my life with the new thing I want to believe.

I listen to podcasts with the new belief on my mind.

I listen for how what the host is saying relates to what I want to think.

I start talking about it.

I say it as often as possible.

I write about it in a notebook or I send myself emails to record my current thoughts about it.

As time passes, I look back at what I was believing not too long ago and see how my belief is shifting and changing.

The easiest and most effective way I change a belief is by setting reminders on my phone.

When I’m working on something new, I create a reminder of the new thing I want to believe. I set it to pop up on my phone every hour.

As it shows up on my screen, I take a few seconds to read it and think about it.

I ask myself, “What if this were true? What would my life be like?”

I might spend a minute or two pondering that. Or I might just glance at it, knowing I will spend a little time with it later.

The interesting thing that starts to happen is that, as time passes, I begin to believe the new thing.

As my belief starts to shift, I might change the settings on that reminder to go off once a day instead of hourly.

And the belief continues to shift.

Eventually, I set the reminder to go off once a week or once a month because I realize that I’m now believing the new thing.

I have a few reminders that show up once a month.

They are thoughts I used to be working on but I fully believe now.

I like reminding myself that I have the tools and ability to change any belief.

I currently have 32 reminders set on my phone.

Most of them don’t go off each day.

But I suggest you start with one. One reminder.

Pick a belief you would like to have.

Here’s an example:

I recently moved this reminder into the weekly category.

 “BECAUSE you can conceive it, there is a strong possibility that this is going to happen very easily.”

This belief has to do with working in the quantum realm.

It’s a new concept for me and I didn’t believe it at all when I first learned about it.

Now I pretty much believe it is true.

I’ve created a new pathway in my brain and shifted the belief.

It’s fun to have beliefs that are moving along at different stages set as reminders on my phone.

I think that this is the coolest action I can be taking right now. Believing something new.

My belief work moves my personal and business growth at hyper-speed.

Belief work is a deliberate action for me.

I give myself a million chances to believe something new.

Belief work is the kind of action that then raises the quality of my next action.

It’s the simplest but most productive, most high-yielding action you can spend time on.

Don’t believe me?

Maybe that’s the first belief you want to change.

Nothing but growth and possibility are on the other side of believing in the power of your own belief work.

Sending love,

K