This link puts beautifully what belief is. I have never seen such a beautiful definition anywhere.
Belief combines your thoughts and feelings, which go out before you, drawing those things to you that reinforce your essential beliefs.
The author goes on to say how the goals are affected by our beliefs. Again beautiful words, that I have never heard before:
Having set yourself a goal to achieve, you can just "believe" your goal into existence. If you totally and absolutely believe that whatever is needed to achieve that goal will manifest itself, then your goal will be achieved. The trick is in how well you "believe" - this requires absolute and utter conviction, absolutely no shadow of doubt, not the tiniest "if". It requires you to "know" the goal is true is sure as if you are seeing it now. It needs not just your thoughts but also your feelings aligned in "believing" that the goal already exists for you.
Believing is necessary, but action is even more necessary to make the belief a tangible reality. Ah, how fragile is reality - we can make it easily and we can break it too easily.
