3 Limiting Beliefs You Need to Crush Today

If you’ve ever felt like you were meant for more but can’t quite get there, it’s likely not a lack of talent or effort holding you back. It might be what you believe about yourself.

Limiting beliefs are like invisible fences. You don’t even know you’re trapped until you try to move past them. These sneaky thoughts can lurk under the surface, masquerading as “being realistic” or “playing nice,” but they’re really just dolled-up excuses.

As women, we hold ourselves to impossible standards. We’ve been programmed by a society that still often prefers women to shrink rather than shine.

Let’s name your limiting beliefs and crush them.

1. “I’m not ready yet.”

I’m super familiar with this one. This one loves to hang out with perfectionism and imposter syndrome. Women often think they need one more degree, one more training, one more year of experience before they go for the raise, the launch, the next level.

Bullshit.

When I decided many years ago that I wanted to launch my own marketing firm, I put together a three-year plan for building my brand, clientele and bank account. Wasn’t it a kick in the pants when, just one year into working my plan, I was let go from my full-time gig. You know what? It all worked out as it was meant to.

Spoiler alert: readiness is a myth. Nobody ever feels ready. And waiting until you’re “ready” is just procrastination. If you’re a perfectionist like me, you’ll never be ready.

Take action before you feel 100% confident. Start messy. Start now. Clarity and confidence come from doing.

2. “I don’t want to be too much.”

The fear of making other people uncomfortable by being too loud, too ambitious, too assertive, too emotional, too (fill-in-the-blank) is real. From our childhoods, we women are taught to self-edit. To downplay. To harmonize.

I love (and hate) this quote from the movie Barbie: “I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us.” It screams for a bold rejection of shrinking ourselves and fear-based living.

You’re not “too much” and you never were. Whoever said that to you is the problem, not you. You’ve just been in rooms that couldn’t hold your brilliance. You are meant to shine. Your voice is needed, so use it.

3. “What if I fail?”

Spoiler alert: You will fail. That’s a given and there’s nothing wrong with it. Because failure means you’re taking risks. It means you’re trying, growing. Playing it safe is its own kind of failure, isn’t it?

Serena Williams is case in point. This seemingly superhuman badass has said, “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. I have fallen several times. Each time I just get up and dust myself off.”

Failure is part of the process. Every successful woman you admire has flopped, fumbled and face-planted at some point. But she didn’t let it stop her.

Redefine failure as feedback, not a setback. When something doesn’t work, it’s just data. Learn, pivot and keep going.

The Bottom Line?

These limiting beliefs aren’t yours. You inherited them. Reject them because you are meant to be wildly successful, unapologetically visible and deeply fulfilled.

So, the next time a limiting belief tries to whisper in your ear, yell back: “Not today!”

Then go do the thing.