Daily Affirmation

My wife shared this idea with me that one of our friends shared with her and it may very well be the key to reprogramming the musings of the mind. I asked a group of students recently, with eyes closed for anonymity, to raise their hands if they felt that they were NOT intelligent. I was alarmed at the number of kids ages 13-15 who had already decided to accept the label “STUPID”. I got to thinking that there was something wrong with my students, with me and altogether with our culture.

Affirmation is a fundamental need though perhaps not as pressing as the requirements of food, water and shelter. Or is it? The Daily Affirmation is kind of like an intrapersonal detox. And now this blog post is officially sounding mystical and self-helpish. At any rate, my wife gave me three sentence frames that read like so:

I’m prone to feel __________________________________________.

But your Word says _______________________________________.

So today I choose to believe __________________________________.

I’m supposed to fill in the blanks and write this affirmation everywhere – on index cards, as a reminder in my phone, mirror, etc. For 3-6 weeks or at least 21 days I’m to affirm myself seven times a day. And why not? Do you know what I say to myself everyday? The self-mutilating utterances go, “I’m no good a that,” “That’s alright, I don’t need that (when I really do),” or “I could never see my business flourishing and working globally for people’s personal transformation.” Please believe that if you don’t provide an antidote to the poison you administer daily, you can predict your own outcome can’t you?

So since we all do better with examples, here’s what my daily affirmation looks like:

I’m prone to feel incompetent and immune to prosperity.

But your Word says that if I am free from the love of money, the generous man will be enriched.

So today I choose to believe that I will make my living developing the character of athletes and others because that’s what I’m here to do.

Man it’s hard being transparent. Tag you’re it.