Your mind is either your biggest asset or your biggest liability. If you’re not where you want to be in life, business, or finances, chances are you’re trapped by confirmation bias. If you don’t shake it off, it’s going to keep you broke, stuck, and frustrated while the winners keep stacking success.
What Is Confirmation Bias?
Confirmation bias is when you only see and believe the information that supports what you already think is true. It’s why people who think “money is hard to make” never make any. It’s why people who believe “the market is bad” never close deals. And it’s why people who think “I don’t need a coach” stay exactly where they are—losing while someone else is winning.
Your brain is like a heat-seeking missile for proof that you’re right—even if being right is ruining your life. You’ll ignore opportunities, dismiss new ideas, and surround yourself with people who validate your excuses instead of pushing you toward results.
How to Avoid the Confirmation Bias Trap
- Challenge Your Thoughts. Every time you catch yourself saying, “That won’t work” or “That’s not for me,” stop. Ask yourself: “Is that true, or is it just what I’ve always believed?” If you want a new level of success, you need new beliefs to match.
- Surround Yourself with Winners. If the people around you are broke, struggling, and complaining, guess what? You will be too. Get in rooms where people are making moves, closing deals, and crushing goals. Their beliefs will start rubbing off on you.
- Take Massive Action. Action destroys doubt. When you take bold action, your brain has to adjust. You start seeing proof that success is possible. You stop believing the lies that kept you stuck.
- Get Information From Varied Sources. Make sure you get information from multiple sources and multiple points of view. Challenge your worldview.
- Keep Learning. Always assume there is more to learn. Read more. Watch documentaries. Learn about new topics. The more you learn, the more you’ll be able to adapt new ideas to what you’re doing.
How a Coach Destroys Confirmation Bias
A great coach does one thing better than anything else—they don’t buy into your excuses. They see where your thinking is holding you back and they challenge it. A coach pushes you to see opportunities where you see obstacles. They show you what’s possible and hold you accountable until you make it happen.
Think about this—every elite athlete has a coach. Every top CEO has mentors. The best of the best don’t trust their own thoughts blindly. They get outside perspectives to keep them sharp, focused, and growing. If you’re trying to do it all on your own, you’re setting yourself up for failure.
Time to Break Free
The truth is, your success is on the other side of your excuses. If you’re ready to break out of the confirmation bias trap, challenge your beliefs, surround yourself with winners, and get a coach who won’t let you settle.
Stop waiting. Stop believing lies. Start doing what it takes to win. Because the only thing worse than being stuck is staying stuck when you know you could be doing more, having more, and being more.
Are you ready to break free? Let’s go. Schedule a call here or contact us at the information below. Modern Observer Group programs are based on the Businetiks system as detailed in the book, “The Businetiks Way.”
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