What Do You Believe In?

Jose Rodriguez
6 min readAug 23, 2022
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An Apology
Before starting, I’d like to apologize for not having published for awhile. I became involved with another writing project that has taken up a lot of my attention. However, during the time away, I saw that there were ideas that were a better fit here.

I hope that my next stage here is better and stronger from where I left off. Most importantly, I hope to regain the privilege of your reading.

Two Questions
Now, let’s start by asking two questions:

  1. What do you believe?
  2. Where do your beliefs come from?

It’s Probably BS
To be clear, these questions don’t refer to any specific formal faith nor religious tradition. I recognize that “different things work for different people.” Specifically, I want to examine what we believe and how these beliefs direct our actions.

A long time ago, I used to think that belief, faith and manifestation were all BS. Setting goals? It didn’t seem like a lot of fun and too much work. Believing in goals makes them real? C’mon, now. At that time, ideas like these made no sense.

Faith, Belief and Manifestation
Before continuing, I want to say that I don’t mean manifestation in a metaphysical, “woo-woo” way. I’m only referring to turning

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Jose Rodriguez
Jose Rodriguez

Written by Jose Rodriguez

Content Creator. Everyday is a blessing, so we need to make the best of each one. To improve things, we should start with ourselves. www.thejoserodriguez.com