Believe in Yourself
AFFIRMATIONS
for
Meditation and Reflection
I am facing each day with a positive attitude, which empowers me to truly believe that anything is possible.
I am living positively at all times and have given up using negative phrases like “I can’t” because I know I can!
I am choosing every day to believe that I am worthy and deserving of success, no matter my age or my circumstances.
You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass-produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.
—MAX LUCADO
Bestselling author
Because you are going to be successful and create the life of your dreams, you have to believe you can do it—even if you can’t see the whole picture of exactly how it will happen.
Developing a confident attitude and believing in yourself is a choice, regardless of the limiting beliefs and negative conditioning you may have grown up with. You must choose to believe that you can do anything you set your mind to—because you can. There are hundreds of studies and volumes of research on the human brain that show how positive self-talk, visualization, training, coaching, and practice can help retrain the brain so that we can accomplish almost anything,
If you don’t develop an attitude of success and belief in yourself, you won’t do what’s needed. Whether you believe you can or believe you can’t, your thoughts become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s your choice to believe or not.
I am facing each day with a positive attitude, which empowers me to truly believe that anything is possible.
Your brain is designed to solve problems and reach goals, and that means you have to give up phrases like “I can’t,” “I wish I were able to,” and “if only I could.” Those negative words disempower you and actually make you weaker.
When you were a toddler, you climbed up on anything that stood in your way. But little by little, your sense of invincibility was eroded by the negative reactions you received from your family, teachers, and friends. Eventually, you no longer believed you could conquer everything in your way.
Too often we feel the need to have others believe in us and in our dreams in order to be successful, but your decisions need to be based on your own goals and desires, not those of your parents, friends, spouse, children, and coworkers. How can you possibly follow your heart if you’re sitting around worrying what other people think about you?
Dr. Daniel Amen has an 18/40/60 Rule: When you’re 18, you worry about what everyone is thinking about you; when you’re 40 you don’t give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you’re 60, you realize that nobody is thinking about you at all. Stop wasting time worrying about what other people think and spend that time focusing on doing the things that will achieve your goals.
I am living positively at all times and have given up using negative phrases like “I can’t” because I know I can!
Did you know that 20% of America’s millionaires never set foot in college? Even former Vice President Dick Cheney dropped out of college! Plus, there are countless other examples of people who became successful in their field or who started a new path in life without “prerequisites” such as schooling, age, or finances—simply because they believed they could accomplish what they wanted.
Take six-year-old Ryan Hreljac for instance: Shocked to learn that children in Africa had to walk many miles every day just to fetch clean water, little Ryan raised enough money to build a well in northern Uganda by the time he was eight. Today, Ryan’s Well Foundation has completed 878 water projects and 1,120 latrines in 16 countries.
I am choosing every day to believe that I am worthy and deserving of success, no matter my age or my circumstances.