The Power of Beliefs

If you’ve seen my stories on instagram lately, you may have noticed that I’ve been finding TONS of four leaf clovers lately. 🍀

People keep telling me I’m so lucky, I’ve heard pot o gold references, and jokes that I should predict lotto numbers. But to me, if this experience has taught me anything, it’s all about the power of our BELIEFS.

This whole four leaf clover journey started when my partner and I first got together. He told me he had never found a four leaf clover, but that he was going to find one. Not that he wanted to, he was GOING to find a four leaf clover. 

At the time, I was like aw that’s cute. Kind of unlikely, but you do you. (lol) And I remember within a few weeks he found his first ever four leaf clover. Just like he said he was going to! And then he KEPT finding them. He went from never finding one, to finding them all the time!

The first time I found one was about a year later. I was out on a walk with him and I just happened to catch something out of the corner of my eye. I turned around to see it, and lo and behold I’d found a FIVE leaf clover. While I was out on a walk, not even looking. It just caught my eye while I wasn’t even paying attention. A freakin’ FIVE leaf! 

And then a little while later I found a four leaf clover. I don’t remember the timeline, but since then I’ve found several four leaf clovers. And I attribute it to BELIEVING that I can find them. 

The power of belief is SO strong. 

I believe that I am someone who finds four leaf clovers and so I do find them. 

You may be thinking, okay, love this magical thinking, Maggie. Let me just belieeeve I’m going to win the lottery and I’ll win the lottery, that’s what you’re saying, right? 😒

But no, hear me out. 

You may have heard the quote by Deepak Chopra, “What you pay attention to grows.”

So if you’re thinking about and paying attention to finding four leaf clovers, you’re more likely to see them than someone who isn’t thinking about it. Makes sense, right?

I was talking to my friend Steph recently about all of the clovers I’ve been finding and how I just believe that I’ll find them, and so I do. 

Then the next day, she was at the park with her daughter and, inspired by our conversation, she set an intention to find her first ever four leaf clover. She let go of the time frame and didn’t set expectations for when, where or how she would find one. 

And then she found her very first four leaf that day!! 

She even found another one later that week.

After she found her second one, I was joking around and telling my partner I’m a four leaf clover coach now. 💁🏼‍♀️

He responded unenthusiastically, “how do you coach that, you just look.”

Slightly offended by his disbelief, I said, “it’s deeper than that!”

And he admitted, “it is.”

Because he knows! He’s been through it too.

It really is about belief. If you believe you can find a four leaf clover, you’re much more likely to keep trying than someone else who doesn’t believe they can find one. 

What’s cool is that you could do this with almost anything. 

Is there a job you’re telling yourself that you can’t have? Or maybe a feeling that you can’t have? Or a trip you can’t go on? Or somewhere you can’t live?

What if you try and shift to BELIEVING that you CAN have that thing, or that job, or that feeling, or trip, or house, or city. What possibilities open up?

Whatever it is, I invite you to play around with believing that you can have it.

How could you fuel that with belief? Where can you look for proof that you CAN have it? Where can you find evidence from the past that is proof that you can do these things?

I’ll be the first to admit, it’s not always easy. Sometimes it takes a lot of searching, a lot of reminding yourself and reinforcing beliefs. 

And just like finding a four leaf clover, when you find it, wow. It feels like all of your work paid off. 

What is something you could fuel with belief? 

If you need help reframing beliefs and finding proof that you are more than capable of following your heart’s desire, this is some of the work I do with clients. 

We get clear on what it is that you want (you don’t have to know what you want going in), own that desire, and start taking steps to get there. So if you’re ready to upgrade your beliefs system, head to my calendar to book a free Connection Call so we can chat about it!