“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.” ~Michael Korda

Affirmations have been around for a very long time. I have used affirmations myself quite successfully and commonly recommend that my clients use them as well, once they know how! Reading affirmations is not enough to elicit change. Reading affirmations written by someone else to address their issues is not enough to elicit change. You must be using affirmations, both state and becoming affirmations, that specifically address limiting beliefs that you hold.

A great way to start, to identify areas of your internal beliefs that would benefit from analysis is to read affirmations and as you read be aware of your reactions. Do you already believe this? Do you believe something else that serves you better? Does this affirmation feel false or untrue? Do you wish that you believed this? You can have an entire world of responses to affirmations, and your responses are your first guides.

So, simply read this list of affirmations aloud and see what happens. Each of these affirmations has been created to address a limiting belief, a belief that was holding back one of my clients, and they are virtually all state affirmations. A state affirmation “states” that you already have something…that you already believe something. It may or may not be useful to you to use “state” affirmations for personal changework, but they are a great way to begin:

Affirmations around My Way of Being:
I am totally committed to achieving my dreams.
I always find the fun in everything I do.
I live life with passion.
I am incredibly passionate about achieving my goals and dreams.
I learn what is important from events and then I put those events in the past.
I only review the past if I am looking for a better answer for the future.
I plan my life carefully and I love working my plan.
I radiate confidence and joy.
I naturally breathe and use my body in ways that make me feel great and strong!
I naturally keep my focus on what I want, rather than what I must go thru.
I take time every day to program myself for the successes that I want.
I consistently give my all…my best effort because in life, what I give I get to keep.
I demand and get more from myself every day than other people would ever expect.

Affirmations about my Memory and my Mind:
I just naturally remember people’s names.
I have an incredible memory and ability to recall.
I memorize new facts and information quickly and easily.
I learn and remember procedures and techniques rapidly and I enjoy learning them.
I am brilliant…a genius.

Affirmations around Absolute Financial Freedom:
I am financially independent and secure.
I attract successful people into my life.
I naturally attract great business opportunities to myself and make the most of them.
I am worthy and deserving of financial success.
I take powerful steps every day towards the rapid achievement of Absolute Financial Freedom.

Affirmations around Focus:
I am becoming more focused on achieving my goals every day.
I love working on tasks that take me towards the achievement of my dreams.
I just naturally drop into a focused state when I am working on my desired goals.

About Referrals and Repeat Business:
People love to give me referrals.
I take time every week to enhance my Business Skills and knowledge.
I consistently, naturally, effortlessly, and tactfully ask for Referrals.
I make my daily notes and recalls to my Sphere of Influence and my Strategic Partners my number 1 priority.
I am very grateful for the many Clients that use my services.

About my Coaching:
I am a very effective and highly compensated Coach.
My services and talents as a Coach are in great demand.

About my Public Speaking and my Seminars:
I am a very effective, talented and entertaining Public Speaker.
My services and talents as a Public Speaker and Seminar Leader are in great demand.

About my writing and being an Author:
I love investing time every day with morning pages and journaling.
I always write 1000 or more words per day every day on my books or articles.
Great ideas and script just naturally flow into and thru me and onto the pages.
I feel great while writing! Successful, confident, focused, happy!

Affirmations about my Business and Myself:
I am brave, courageous and bold.
I naturally and effortlessly make ethical and tactful self promotion part of my everyday life.
I promote myself and my business naturally, effortlessly, tactfully and fearlessly.
I focus on how great it will be when I complete a task and this makes actually doing the task seem easy.
I am incredibly visionary, talented and successful.
I invest time every month advancing my knowledge and skills in my businesses.

Around Procrastination:
I naturally start right into doing important projects.
I have a do it now attitude.
I enjoy getting projects and tasks done early.
I do the most important tasks first and stay focused on their completion.
I must do the most productive thing possible at every given moment.

Around Self Discipline:
When I say something to myself, I do it!
Exercising Self Discipline gives me pride and excitement and I love it.
I love the feeling of knowing that self discipline just means that I am in charge.
My word, whether given to myself or to others, really means something.
I always keep my word to myself and to others.
Self Discipline equals freedom!
Self Discipline means I don’t even have to think about it, I decide and I do!
I always achieve my most important goals.
I never leave the sight of a goal without doing something towards its achievement.

Around Rejection:
If someone says no, I feel even better, even more confident.
I am free of the Fear of Rejection.
It is my duty and my right to promote myself.
When I do what I fear most, I control fear.
There is no failure or rejection, it’s just an opportunity to practice my performance.
There is no rejection or failure, it’s just great feedback to help me do better in the future.
I always find the humor and fun in every potentially negative situation.
I always see non-success as a necessary and natural part of the game I play to win.

Around Attracting Perfect Customers:
I am so very grateful for the perfect clients that I have already attracted. I am so very grateful for the perfect number of the perfect customers that I continue to attract to my businesses.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of affirmations. It is a list long enough, and addressing the most common issues that stop people from achieving their full potential, that it will serve you to read it and note your reactions to each and every affirmation.

Till next time…Jack

“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson