Once upon a time, I was unaware that my current beliefs were creating a life I hated, being a heroin addict, thief, angry aggressive, and in and out of Juvenile detention centers and prison for twelve years, and I didn't like myself. I thought things would never get better. I just thought one day I would die in a shoot-out with police or be murdered in jail or a fight. Life got worse from this, I was getting older, unhappier, and always ending up back in prison for drug-related crimes. I was institutionalized, a hopeless drug addict.

Unintelligent to know any other way of living, and in general, life was a series of complex challenges I was not competent to manage. I was twenty-six years of age—the year Nineteen eighty-nine.

One day, I realized that something had to change. I couldn't keep living my life the way I was.

And remarkably, for me, I found that way in my beliefs.

The first step was to become aware of my current belief system through other people. I allowed people to start seeing things I didn't and telling me what they saw.

I started to ask questions like, what did I believe about myself? About others? About life in general? I took time to think about these things, which wasn't good.

Some of the things I believed were me against the world. You hurt me, and I am going to hurt you. Look after me and don't care about others because no one cares about me.

I realized my old, outdated beliefs had to be holding me back from being happy in life

and I could choose to change these beliefs to stop the madness I was living through different and new choices.

I replaced those negative, self-limiting beliefs with positive, empowering ones. I saw I had an authority problem of me against the world.

I taught myself a new belief in respecting authority.

I saw how I blamed people for my feelings, thoughts and blamed others for my emotional hurt and pain. I learned to take responsibility and ownership of feelings by believing it's ok to feel hurt, pain or disappointed. To counteract no one caring for me, I would hug people and act caring toward others by sharing my heart and soul through communicating honestly about my past beliefs and the new ones I desperately needed and so wanted.

This was a process of trial and error by not taking people's opinions and views of me personally; I learned the power of Principle before personality. The Principle is learning from information from others, good or bad, instead of attacking a person's character because of an inability to handle what they are saying.

 I realized there would never be a time and place for all this; this would become a new way of life until I died, and this newly founded belief resonated with me and felt true because of my past unhappiness. 

 The effort was worth it. Changing my beliefs has made a massive difference in my life. I'm now happier, healthier, and more successful than I ever thought possible. And it all started with becoming aware of my old beliefs, taking accountability for them, and becoming responsible for consciously deciding to change them. If we can't see things, we can't change things. If we want to change how we feel, we have to start by changing our beliefs. beliefs lead to pass life experiences that create our emotions, and our behaviors are a results from our feelings. So if we want to change our lives, it all starts with changing our beliefs.

Our beliefs affect every aspect of our lives, from the minor daily decisions to the meaningful life choices that define who we are and who we want to be. When you stop and think about it, it's incredible how much power our beliefs have over us. And yet, most of us go through life never questioning them.

If you're not happy with your current circumstances, take a look at your beliefs.

They may be the root cause of your problems. And if they are, you have the power to change them. Just like I did.

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