Are you ignoring valid circumstantial evidence?

Stop ignoring circumstantial evidence. It is valid evidence.

Anytime we go to do something new or even contemplate it, our brains want direct evidence that we will succeed first. Direct evidence that we can do the thing.

You are very rarely, if ever, going to have direct evidence that you can succeed at something new. 

Because you haven’t done it yet. 

But I bet you have some circumstantial evidence that you can gather to make a pretty good case. 

And you can use that evidence to build belief before you’ve done the thing and while you’re doing it - even before you have a single shred of direct evidence that you can.

I have a client who doesn’t have a traditional 9-5. 

She makes money working for other people and for herself doing a variety of things and has for a long time. 

She has a business she wants to start. 

And she had a story that she can’t make enough money running this business to support herself. 

She’s never worked for herself full time.

She’s never sold this exact thing before.

And that’s what her brain was focused on.

So I gave her an assignment. 

Go back and look at all the money you’ve made selling goods and services - providing value of some kind to other people. 

Find that circumstantial evidence that you know how to make money on your own. In any kind of business you decide to engage in. That you know how to sell something.

The next time we had a call, she told me she was blown away by how much money she had made on her own. 

Now she could have looked at that money and decided that circumstantial evidence wasn’t good enough to support a belief that she could make this new business her only source of income.

Instead, she chose to make a case to herself that this circumstantial evidence meant she knew how to make money doing anything. That was a skill she already had. And this new business could and would succeed. 

She had moved from feeling stuck and doubtful and stagnant to having completed several tasks towards getting the business up and running and was brimming with ideas of what to do next.

She did that. 

With her brain.

You can too.

When you build belief in advance, you take action towards making that belief come true. That belief can be built solely on circumstantial evidence. It’s all admissible.

What circumstantial evidence are you ignoring or discounting? 

How can it support the belief you are trying to create?

How can you make the case for your dreams and desires instead of against them?  

A ❤️ note to you: For perfectionists, it can seem impossible to believe that you can do something before you’ve done it. I love helping perfectionists prove themselves wrong. I love helping them learn how to build belief in themselves. I love helping them learn how to make a case based on purely circumstantial evidence. Let’s get started blowing your own mind. Just send me an email or sign up for a free call with me at jenndealcoaching.as.me/consult.