Turn Limiting Beliefs into Empowering Beliefs with Chat GPT and Adobe Express

1. Introduction: I recently heard the quote, the way you talk to yourself matters. And it really struck a chord with me. If I'm being honest, I have grappled with how I talk about myself and it never felt good. This quote prompted me to take action to change that, and I'm here to share those actions with you. Hi, I'm Tammy De Silva, a service designer behind my business, Loopla from sunny Brisbane, Australia. I license my artwork to companies, sell products featuring my designs. And I'm an educator mentor and Adobe Express ambassador. Now this class is a little bit different from my typical creative offerings, but it has been a game changer for me, so I knew it was something I wanted to share. We're going to talk about beliefs and creating a belief plan. A belief plan is like a roadmap to challenge and transform those negative self talk moments. It's a way to nurture a kinder, more compassionate in a dialogue which aligns with the wisdom of that quote I shared. I'm going to show you how easy it is to create a belief plan using the power of Chat, GPT, and Adobe Express. I'm going to give examples relating to being an artist, but this class is applicable to anyone in both a professional and a personal capacity. All you need is a free account with Chat, GPT, and Adobe Express. Let's dive in. 2. Class Project: For the class project, I'm going to guide you through five lessons on creating your belief plan and taking action based on that plan. Firstly, we'll understand what a limiting belief is versus an empowering belief. We'll talk a bit more about belief plans and then we'll spend some time listing our limiting beliefs. Taking three of those limiting beliefs, we'll flip them and create empowering beliefs. Trust me, I know it's tricky, especially if you've been holding yourself back so much by your limiting beliefs, that it's hard to even consider on the flip side what an empowering belief could be. This is where the power of Chat GPT comes in with our newly formed belief plan. We'll then create a graphic in Adobe Express to enable us to keep our belief plan in a visible place that we see daily, such as our phone lock screen or on our bedroom wall. We'll then wrap things up by creating an evidence list where we can record the actions that we take relating to our belief plan. If you don't have a chat GPT or Adobe Express account yet, no worries. Your first step is to create a free account for both. Let's get started. 3. Limiting Beliefs vs Empowering Beliefs: I've got a little story to share with you first. When I first quit out of my 20 year IT career and decided that I was going to pursue my own surface design business, I struggled to tell people that I was an artist. I was doing the work, people could see what I was doing and sharing on social media. But for over a year, they kept asking me when I was getting a job, a "real" job. It really annoyed me that people weren't taking me seriously. And aside from the usual societal disbelief that you can in fact support yourself as an artist, I didn't believe myself that I actually was an artist. And this was clearly evident to others as well. When I realized this was what was happening, I slowly started to tell people that I am an artist. You know what? The more I did it, the more confident I was in saying it, and it felt really good. Then of course, I stopped getting asked that question. This is just one story that shows how believing in yourself can make the world of difference. If I had kept listening to them and my inner voice, I wouldn't be where I am today. All right, let's talk about limiting beliefs versus empowering beliefs. Limiting beliefs are those sneaky thoughts that hold us back, like thinking we're not good enough or that success is reserved for others. It's when you convince yourself that you can't do something, maybe because of past experiences or self doubt. It's like building a little fence around your capabilities and it really can be quite exhausting. On the flip side, empowering beliefs are the cheerleaders in our head. They're the thoughts that lift us up, boost our confidence, and make us feel like we can conquer anything. Instead of saying, I can't, I'm not good enough. It's all about saying I can give it a go and see what happens. A belief plan then, is the way that we address those limiting beliefs and replace them with more empowering and positive ones. This then enables us to take action towards goals we want to achieve. Your belief plan isn't about slathering on a forced layer of sunshine or sketching out plans that seem like they might belong in a fantasy novel. It needs to feel genuine to you, even if you're not quite there yet. Just like when I was starting out in my service design business. You want to include beliefs that you are still learning to believe. So that they will inspire you to take actions towards results you are wanting to achieve. A belief plan is something you want to read every single day. You want to make those impairing beliefs your repetitive thoughts, rather than those that limit you. If you find those limiting beliefs sneaking back into your thoughts every now and then, it's okay. What's important is that the impairing beliefs are in your thoughts the most, you're the boss of your beliefs after all. 4. Identify Your Limiting Beliefs: All right, let's dive into identifying those limiting beliefs for your belief plan. Here are some tips to get you started. Reflect on challenges. Think about areas in your life where you face challenges or setbacks. What thought held you back? Listen to your inner dialogue. Pay attention to yourself talk What do you tell yourself when faced with a difficult situation or decision? Explore past criticism. Reflect on past criticisms or negative feedback. Are there recurring themes or statements that linger in your mind? Examine areas of procrastination. Identify tasks or goals you've been putting off. What thoughts or beliefs are associated with your procrastination. Journaling. Set aside dedicated time for journaling. Write freely about your thoughts, fears, and doubts. This can unearth hidden limiting beliefs. It's perfectly normal if you encounter some resistance or discomfort during this expiration too. It's a sign that you're uncovering layers that are ready for transformation. And if it stirs up some emotions, that's okay. If it feels intense, take breaks and maybe even share your thoughts with a trusted friend or mentor. Embracing this challenge is a powerful step towards creating a belief plan that really aligns with you. Remember that you're navigating your way to positive change and that's commendable. Once you've got your list, pick the three that pop up in your thoughts the most. And I'll meet you in the next lesson. 5. Create Empowering Beliefs with ChatGPT : We're now going to reframe our top three limiting beliefs into empowering ones using the power of chat GPT. If you're not familiar with chat GPT, it's a language model developed by Open AI. The key feature of chat GPT is its ability to generate human like responses to text prompts. When using chat GPT, you can think of it like talking to a friend. If you approach it with a conversational tone, it tends to response in a more casual and approachable manner. This can make the interaction feel a little more natural and comfortable. Now, just like when chatting with a friend, the clearer you are with them, the more precise a response you will get. If you rephrase your question, it may understand what you're asking even better. The benefits of using chat GPT for this exercise are it can introduce fresh perspectives that you might not have considered, as it's been trained using a diverse range of Internet text. It operates without emotional bias or attachment. It provides a quick and efficient way to generate multiple suggestions. Chat GPT also allows for an iterative process. If the initial suggestions don't quite gel with you, you can refine your prompts and ask for more until you get suggestions that resonate with you. Before asking chat GPT, you need to think about what your prompt is, what your tone and language is that you want it to use, how many suggestions you want it to give you An example of how to ask chat GPT to give you an empowering belief for your limiting belief is: Please generate ten empowering beliefs in a positive and uplifting tone. In response to my limiting belief, I pitched my artwork for licensing and got rejections or no response at all. I'm not good enough to license my work. The prompt is asking for an empowering belief in response to the provided limiting belief. The tone you've asked for is in a positive and uplifting manner. You've asked for ten suggestions so that you can try and find one that resonates the most with you. If there aren't any that resonate with you in the provided list, you can ask it to give you ten more or perhaps you like one of the responses, but the wording isn't quite right for you yet. You can then ask it to reword the number for that suggestion and give you ten examples more. For example, I quite like number one. Give me ten more like number one. If you're not liking the tone or language or certain words it's using, tell it and ask it to reword it. You might like to then take the best response and reword it further into language that feels good for you. Once you've done that, you can even ask Chat GPT what it thinks of your updated empowering belief. There's some positive confirmation in what you've chosen. Go ahead and do this process for your three limiting beliefs so that you will then have three empowering beliefs to use in your belief plan. 6. Create Your Belief Plan with Adobe Express: Now that we've determined what our three empowering beliefs are for our belief plan, we're going to create a graphic with them using Adobe Express. This will enable us to put our belief plan in a visible and accessible place that we can see daily while looking nice too, of course. This might be on your phone or computer lock screen, on the wall beside your computer, near your coffee maker, or on your mirror. If you're not familiar with Adobe Express, it's a one stop solution for creating professional looking graphics, videos, and animations with zero design experience required. If you're completely new to Adobe Express, you might like to also watch my class. Create a Digital Business Card with Adobe Express where I spend some more time going over the basics. Let's start creating our belief plan. Now I'm using a premium Adobe Express account as I have a Creative Cloud subscription. But everything that we'll do can be done with a free plan. Now I want to create my graphic for a phone lock screen first. And Instagram Story size is a great general size for phones using the 9/16 aspect ratio. We've got Instagram story here. When you hover over it, you can see you have the option to create from scratch or browse templates. In this example, I'm going to create from scratch because it's a fairly compact space that I'm working with. And I've got a fair bit of text to put in with my three empowering beliefs. I want to keep it fairly simple. Before I start doing anything, I'm going to name my project and the page, I can have multiple pages within a project. First up, we go to the top left corner. Click in there and I will name my project Belief Plan. And that's renamed now. You can see here, I can add a title for each page that I add in my project. So I'm going to do this one for my iphone lock screen. I'm going to add a background color. Now as I have a premium account, I am able to store my color palette for my brand in a library. If you have the free account. However, you can manually enter in the hex code for each swatch that you have, or you can go ahead and pick this basic selection of swatches here. All right. I'm going to go ahead and pick this brown background. First up, I want to add a title, My Belief Plan. On the left hand side here, you can see we've got text. We can just add text straight up or we can utilize any of the text templates. Again, I want to keep it fairly simple. I'm going to just add some text straight up. My Belief Plan. If I tap to the side. I now get the text options panel appearing here. I think I want to make the font something cursive or handwritten. If we click on more fonts, the bottom here, we can actually see different categories of fonts. I can look under cursive. What else is in here? We've also got a wedding. We can see some different ones here. Now, because I'm on the premium plan, you can see the different fonts that have the premium icon beside them versus ones that don't, that are on the free plane. Now, I already know a font that I want to use that is a free font, Allura, so I can go ahead and type that in. I also want to change the color to be something a little softer. I'll move this up to the top, make it a bit bigger. If I drag out on the bounding box here in the corner, I can scale that up a bit. Now when I'm moving this around, you can see that this pink line has appeared. That's showing me that it's centered in the middle, perfectly there. I can also, while I've got this selected, go to the top and click on a line. You can see center is grayed out because it's already centered. But you can use the alignment options here to do that as well. Actually, I think I'm going to change that into more mustard golden color. All right, next I want to add some text for my three empowering beliefs. Click Add your text. I'm now going to paste my first Empowering Belief in. If we tap away, we can then change the font for that again, If I go to more fonts, I'm going to pick this Cairo font. We expand that, we can see the different options. And I might try the light option Now that I've selected that, I think I want that to be a little bit lighter. Let's go to the dropdown menu here. I can pick extra light. I also want to make this quite a bit smaller. Okay, great, there's our first one. Now I want to add the second and the third Empowering Beliefs. I'm going to duplicate in the top left. We've got the duplicate button in our text panel. Can drag that down. I'm just going to copy my next second Empowering Belief. I'll select all of that. Paste it in. I'm going to duplicate that again, select all of that, and copy my third. Now in order to make these stand out as three separate pieces of text, I'm going to add a rectangle behind each belief. To do that, we click on the left hand side panel and pick elements. Here we've got design assets, backgrounds and shapes. I want shapes. I'll click a rectangle. Now you can see that that's put it on over the top of our text on the right hand side here, we've got our layers panel. This button here expands and collapses our layers panel. If we want to move a layer, we tap hold and drag it down. I also want to change the color. Now you can see instead of our text panel on the side here, we've got all the options for our rectangle shape. I'm going to make that a lighter color. I don't want to move that one. Let me click on the layer and I'll drag that. I'm just going to drag out the shape to nicely fit that. I think I might soften it by adding some rounded corners again from my shape panel for my rectangle. In order to make that a bit more readable, I might change that font to the same as my background color. I could also come into custom and copy that text code so that I can then apply it to the other ones afterwards as well. I'm just going to speed this up while I move around and line the three Empowering Beliefs. Perfect. Now I think I might add something down the bottom, a graphic. Maybe I will add a sun that feels I'll go through my elements, design assets and type in sun and I'll just scroll through. Okay, I'm going to go with that one that to the bottom, that a little bit bigger. Again, I'm going to center that there alignment guideline to make sure that's in the center. While this is a similar color, it's not the same golden color that I've used as my title. What I can do because this is actually an image rather than a shape or text. I don't have the feel option to change the color in this image panel here, but there's a workaround for that. I can go to Effects in Duotone. I'll click on Custom. I'll click on Shadows. If I click on this Eye Dropper tool again, I can go over to my font and pick that color out there. There's my hex code. I'm also going to do the same for the highlights. Now you can see that's slightly brighter and it's the same color as our title. Now I think I also want to separate these a little bit more. Maybe adding a line in between them will help just separate them more. If I head over back to elements, go to shapes and I'll search for line one is quite good. I'm going to move that in the middle. I need to distribute the spacing here and I might make that same golden mustard color. I should still have that in my, Yes, can paste that color in. You can see here I've got border thickness. I can also change the type of line that it is as well. Reduce that down a little bit. Awesome. So there we have a graphic for our phone lock screen. Something to keep in mind, however, is on our phone lock screen, we often have a widget such as for the date and the time we need to make space for that. At the top, I'm going to duplicate this. If I head over to the top right, I'll click Add duplicate, Iphone phone lock, screen spaced. I'll rename that page. I'm going to select all of my objects here and I'm just going to scale all of it down. I'll center it by just leaving the space. It then just gives us some options and we can move it around once we bring it onto our phone. Next up, I'm also going to duplicate this to create another version for my IMac Screen Desktop. Will go ahead a duplicate. First up, I want to go to Resize. Now I know that my 27 inch IMac screen, the dimensions are 2,560 for the width, and the height is 1,440 not in proportion because I want to change it from a portrait to landscape size. A quick resize. Now it's a matter of moving our elements around to fit this larger space. I need to rename this page to be for IMac Now, we've really easily changed our first graphic. We can scroll back and look at the different pages. We created this one first we created a modified version allowing for a widget. And then I've created another version for my IMac Desktop. Wasn't that easy to create a quick graphic in Adobe Express. When you're ready, you can click the download button, download the selected pages or all the pages, and put it on your devices or print it out wherever you'd like to put it. Make time to read it every day or more often as needed. You might like to do this at the same time that you do something else every day, like drinking a cup of coffee or brushing your teeth. This will make it easier to remember to do it each day. Just like when you repetitively tell yourself limiting thoughts and it starts to think it's true, you're now on the way to repetitively telling your brain these empowering thoughts and it will also start to think those are true now instead. 7. Create an Evidence List: The next step is to put your belief plan into action. No matter how well written your belief plan is, it's only effective if it inspires you to take action. Creating and maintaining an evidence list is a powerful complement to your belief plan. The more evidence you have for a belief, the more strongly you will believe it. It's also a great reminder of your capabilities and strengths. Just like when I first shyly started telling people I was an artist, at first I didn't quite believe it. The more I said it to people and the more work I did in growing my business, the more I believed it, the more others did too. Now, an evidence list is a collection of specific instances that serve as proof or validation of the empowering beliefs that you hold. It's a tangible record of your successes, achievements, and positive experiences that reinforce your belief system. The benefits of having an evidence list are: It boosts confidence. Reviewing your past successes remind you of your capabilities, boost your confidence and reinforces a positive self image. Counteracts doubts. When self doubt creeps in, having a list of concrete evidence counteracts those doubts and challenges providing a reality check. Celebrate your wins. Your evidence list becomes a source of celebrating wins. Celebrating successes, even the small ones, contribute to a positive mindset and fuels motivation for future actions. Reflection on growth, it becomes a great reflective tool for measuring your growth, showcasing the transformation brought about by your belief plan. Now, when creating your evidence list, be sure to specify the details such as the project, the skills you use, any recognition received, or personal growth experience. It's also important to update it regularly. As you achieve new milestones, get it into the habit of updating your list. Some example entries. I successfully licensed my artwork for a product line. I collaborated with a company and my designs were featured in their product range. I received positive customer reviews and increased exposure. Personal triumph. I overcame self doubt, hosted my own online workshop. Despite my initial hesitations, I organized and conducted an online workshop, and the participants provided positive feedback. It boosted my confidence in teaching. Or a creative milestone completed a challenging project ahead of schedule, managed to finish the project a week before the deadline, showcasing and effective time management and creative efficiency. Now it's good to have a dedicated place to write them down, Whether that be in a journal, in your planner, or even in the notes app in your phone. 8. Final Thoughts: Well done for taking a positive step to believing in yourself and driving change. The belief plan that you created serves as a roadmap for a brighter and more empowering future. It's important to remember to practice self compassion. Be kind and patient with yourself throughout this process. Changing deep seated beliefs takes time and effort as you continue your journey. Remember that belief plans are dynamic and adaptable. If you have any questions or need further guidance, don't hesitate to reach out. In the discussion section. I'm here to help and support you. If you feel comfortable, feel free to share your belief plan in the project gallery. By putting your belief plan out into the world. You're not only celebrating your commitment to positive change, but also creating a space for shared inspiration. 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