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Your life is a product of what you choose to believe. If you get an idea in your head and you truly believe it, you can bet that it's going to have an impact on how you feel about things, how you interpret reality, and what you choose to talk about. It also has a strong effect on how you emotionally respond to the things going on around you.

At the end of the day, the world doesn't care about your feelings, that much is true. But it does sit up and pay attention to what actions you take. It pays attention to what you do. And there is a tight link between how you choose to feel about certain things in your life and how you behave.

If you change your emotional and mental habits, you change your results. When you change your results, you change your destiny.

If you're reading this, you are feeling discontented, frustrated and imperfect. You're feeling way down. You're having a tough time accepting yourself. You have serious questions regarding where you are, the decisions you've made, and what you're about.

Unfortunately, you're not making things any better for yourself when you choose to believe in 8 things that hold you back and drag you down.

These 8 false beliefs sabotage you. They make you feel weak, dependent, flawed and lacking total control. The worst part is they corrode you over time.

This doesn't happen on a one-time, big time kind of basis. Instead, it seeps into you. It wears away your resolve over time. Much like an emotional and mental cancer.
Learn to identify and let go of these 8 false beliefs and you will be on a much better path through life.

Most Americans love the fiction that they are the captain of their personal ship of destiny. There's a romantic imagery that comes with that. You against the world. You, creating your own path.

Well, here's the problem: the more you believe that you have to be in control, the less in control you become.
Because let's face it, the world is a chaotic place. You can create, write down, or formulate the very best laid plans, and they will not pan out exactly as you planned them. That's just the way things work.

As the old saying goes, life is what happens when you're making other plans. And to believe that you always have to be in control, that everything has to take place based on how you planned it is the worst form of self sabotage.

Because life doesn't work that way. Often times, when we plan 100, we should be happy if we get 50. 50 is definitely quite an improvement from the 20 that you're usually getting. Do you see where I'm coming from?

And the problem is, this sense of control leads you to an impossible attachment to perfection. You feel that you're not really in control if things do not pan out exactly how you imagined them to be. Instead, accept the world for what it is instead of insisting on how it should be.

You have to understand that it's hard enough to change yourself, can you imagine trying to change other people? Can you imagine trying to change situations beyond your control?

Let go of this mental cancer of wanting to be always in control. Understand that the only thing you can control in this world is yourself and your response to what the world throws your way.

You don't have to respond based on your emotions. You don't have to let your feelings get the better of you. You can respond based on your values. You can respond based on the character you feel you have.

That is the essence of real control. None of this has to do with controlling what goes on around you because the world spins on its own axis. It has its own agenda.
The more you feel that you have to control everything and everyone around you, the more you lose control. You're taking time away from what you should be doing, which is to control your response and yourself.

Most people would not admit to this, but if you were to look at how they think and how they emotionally respond to things going on in their life, it would seem like there was a giant spotlight on them. They think that they live their lives on this giant stage.

Everybody's looking. Everybody cares. In fact, they think that everyone cares so much about what's going on in their life that they're afraid to make a mistake. One loose word, one false move, one misplaced statement, and everything falls apart.

This is why a lot of people are so afraid of truly being sincere. They feel they have to play a role. They have to meet some sort of standard that is acceptable to the most people most of the time.

In other words, they're living a lie. And this rooted from the fact that you think that you are so important, so vital, so essential, that everybody's looking at you.
Well, the truth is, nobody cares. Seriously. Everybody's got enough problems of their own.

Everybody can talk a good game, but at the end of the day, you are responsible for your life, and you alone. Not your parents, not your friends, not your community, not your classmates – you.

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Make no mistake, if you believe in certain myths, you’ll end up sabotaging yourself. This applies across the board. This doesn’t just apply to marketing and definitely doesn’t just apply to social media marketing.

If you believe in myths regarding your productivity, your ability to produce stuff on time suffers. If you believe in myths regarding your self-esteem or selfconfidence, you’ll end up suffering on so many different levels.

Myths lead you to a dead end. It’s a good idea to get rid of them so you can get better results. Unfortunately, it’s one thing to say that you should overcome myths, it's another to actually do something about them.

The biggest part of the challenge is identifying the myths in the first place.

When it comes to twitter marketing, here are 10 myths that you need to identify, confront, and overcome.

Just because you put up a Twitter account doesn’t necessarily mean you will get a ton of traffic from Twitter. In fact, according to the intensive analysis done by digital marketing firms, Twitter actually sends only a small fraction of the exposures it gets. This means that, even a lot of your twitter followers retweet your material, very few people click through.

This is why it’s crucial that you get retweeted a lot, so that the volume of those retweets can compensate the fact that few people click through. Without heavy visibility—as far as retweets go—you shouldn’t really expect a huge volume of visitors from Twitter.

This makes a lot of sense because Twitter is actually swimming in millions upon millions of twits every single day. It’s very easy for these twits to fall between the cracks. Massive retweets enable your content to overcome this statistical disadvantage.

A lot of people are under the impression that Twitter is simply a branding platform. It’s great to have your content in front of people’s eyeballs so they can see the title. It’s great to see your brand and your pictures on twitter— but that’s pretty much it.

These two lines of thought are inaccurate. Twitter can deliver traffic. Just don’t expect a massive amount. But it can deliver and—if you play your cards right—it can deliver qualified traffic.

This is a big deal because when traffic is qualified, these people know what they’re clicking on and they’re clear as to what their needs are. If the content they land on addresses those needs, there’s a big chance these people would actually convert into buyers or list of members or something else.

Regardless of how you convert traffic into cold hard cash, you have a higher chance of doing that if your traffic is qualified. Twitter can be a great source of qualified traffic. Numerically speaking, it may not be much, but success in online marketing is measured by conversions, not necessarily traffic volume.

If you know how to use Twitter, chances are, you will be able to drive traffic from this platform. It’s easy to think that this is the only benefit you would get.

It turns out that Twitter actually brings a lot of benefits to the table. Not only can it drive direct visitors to your target website, it can also help you get more backlinks for SEO purposes. It can also help you become an instant expert in your niche field.

It brings a lot of benefits to the table. You just have to be open minded about it. You also have to put in the time, as far as engagement is concerned.

Don’t hang your hat on traffic. Traffic alone is not going to put dollars in your pocket. You have to qualify that traffic. This is one of the most powerful benefits of twitter because you qualify that traffic by building up your brand, credibility, and authority.

In the early days of Twitter, lots of marketers managed to pump a lot of traffic from Twitter. It turned out that the huge percentage of this traffic simply doesn’t convert. This doesn’t mean that the traffic is fake. It’s not like all this traffic came from software. That wasn’t the problem.

The problem was, the people-driving all this heavy traffic volume-didn’t bother to qualify that traffic. In fact, a lot of them tricked people into clicking on a link.

I don’t know about you, but if I got tricked into clicking on a link through click-bait or some other cheap trick, I won’t exactly be in the mood to buy something. I wouldn’t be pumped up to sign up to some sort of mailing list. Because in the back of my head, I’d be thinking “I got tricked!”. I was expecting something, and I ended up in a place that did not deliver on my expectations.

If you drive real traffic, and you qualify through content, the right hashtags and branded twitter page, chances are, that traffic can convert. Twitter traffic does convert, you just have to know what you’re doing. You can’t just focus on a massive amount of traffic and expect—somehow, someway—for people to sign up. It doesn’t work that way.

A lot of marketers think that the global traffic pie is fixed, and that there’s only so much to go around. According to this thinking, if you want your slice of the twitter traffic pie to get bigger, you have to necessarily elbow into your competitors’ slice.

Put simply, for your slice of traffic to get bigger, their slice has to get smaller. After all, there’s only so much to share. This is wrong. There is such a thing as increasing the size of the pie.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are under the impression that reaching out to people who are already authorities—or are credible figures on twitter— regarding their niche, means that they are basically making a deal with the enemy.

They view these people—who are competing for the same traffic—as opponents. This really is too bad because there’s lots more money and traffic that can be generated from cooperation instead of competition.

Don’t get me wrong, competition is good, competition lights a fire on people’s behinds and pushes them to do their best. Competition ignites your fire in the belly and pushes you to the limit. You’re pushed to be more creative. You are challenged to be more resourceful.

This enables you to come up with better solutions and beat your competition today. Subsequently, they might come up with something better tomorrow, which means that you have to step up.

That’s what’s so awesome about competition. It pushes people to perform. They can’t get lazy. They can’t expect to coast on their past victories. That simply is not an option. As a result, everybody is better for it.