{"id":1582,"date":"2019-06-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:25:48","slug":"are-limiting-beliefs-stopping-your-improvement-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/are-limiting-beliefs-stopping-your-improvement-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Limiting Beliefs Stopping Your Improvement Projects?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Everyone has limiting beliefs and they could be stopping your improvement projects. Here&#8217;s why and what to do about it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/309948456?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma for Hospitals\u201d and the QI Macros [software]. I want to talk to you about something that sounds a little bit out of the Six Sigma ballpark.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;One of the things I&#8217;ve noticed is people will develop limiting beliefs about what&#8217;s possible. They&#8217;ll say, \u201cWell, I can&#8217;t fix that because\u2026\u201d or \u201cI can&#8217;t do this because my boss won&#8217;t let me,\u201d or \u201cI can&#8217;t do this because management doesn&#8217;t understand control charts, performance charts,&#8221; &#8230;or whatever. \u201cI can&#8217;t because\u2026\u201d As soon as you say \u201cbecause,\u201d guess what? Your brain [thinks] \u201cAh, I can&#8217;t.\u201d It doesn&#8217;t matter what the thing after it is &#8211; you know, the excuse at the end? It doesn&#8217;t matter, it just says \u201cI can\u2019t because of\u2026 something&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m too short, too tall, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too whatever\u2026\u201d No!<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So question your limiting beliefs. In the 1800&#8217;s they thought an ill wind caused illnesses, and then Pasteur found these little microorganisms. Does that make sense? And then, all along as we go through, nobody thought anybody could fly, and then the Wright brothers flew. We went from rattletrap aircraft to moon landings in 60 years. Anything is possible! You just have to stop doubting that it is possible. You don&#8217;t have to worry about it. Richard Bandler used to say you won&#8217;t have to worry if something is impossible, you just won&#8217;t be able to do it. Right? So stop worrying; stop worrying altogether. Start making improvements. \u201cOh, I can&#8217;t fix that because\u2026\u201d If you hear the word \u201cbecause\u201d in your brain, stop yourself and say \u201cWhat?! What am I thinking?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I have this big, hairy, audacious goal that we&#8217;re going to create a hassle-free America and a hassle-free world by systematically streamlining everything and simplifying and optimizing all of our processes so that everything smooths out and we all start feeling a lot more comfortable in our lives without having to keep track of everything and chase everything and fix everything. That&#8217;s a big, hairy, audacious goal. Do I know how to do it? No. Do I say, \u201cI can&#8217;t because I&#8217;m just me.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Anita Roddick at The Body Shop said any time you think you&#8217;re too small, just remember the time you spent a night in your bedroom with one mosquito. We have the ability to influence things way beyond what we think. So any time you think you can&#8217;t \u201cbecause\u2026\u201d say, \u201cWell, I wonder if I could,\u201d and \u201cI wonder how\u2026\u201d Once you start wondering how, guess what? Answers will come to you. You will see solutions you wouldn&#8217;t have seen before, because as soon as you have a limiting belief you can&#8217;t see them; your brain won&#8217;t let you. It&#8217;s a nasty little side effect of a limiting belief: It won&#8217;t let you see things that are right in front of you.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Be the CIO (the Chief Improvement Officer) of your life, and start making everything hassle-free.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has limiting beliefs and they could be stopping your improvement projects. Here&rsquo;s why and what to do about it.&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals&rdquo; and the QI Macros [software]. I want to talk to you about something that sounds a little bit out of the Six Sigma ballpark. 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