How To Reframe Limiting Beliefs About Your Career

This post is the second installment in the Legally Bold series on limiting beliefs and how they rob us of achieving fulfillment in essential areas of our lives. You can find the first installment in the series, A Primer on Limiting Beliefs, here. 

When I worked for a firm, one of the partners used to tell me about the bedtime stories he read to his grandchildren. What stayed with me about those conversations is that he would always make sure to tell me that he read every page of those books to them.  He read the title page with the author's name. And sometimes, he would even read the copyright page with the publisher's info and copyright notice.

He did this because he wanted his grandchildren to know that an everyday person, just like them wrote and published a book. And if that person could do it, so could they.  

I didn't realize how profound a simple practice like that can be until I had those talks. By reading every single page, that partner transformed his grandchildren's beliefs ab…