🌳 Are Self-Affirmations Effective?

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In simple terms, affirmations are only so effective to a certain point. Just saying them doesn’t make them true therefore you have to provide evidence that you are what you say you are.

ARE SELF-AFFIRMATIONS EFFECTIVE?

What are self-affirmations?

Affirmations or Self-affirmations can be defined as statements that we repeat to ourselves to help us shift the way we're thinking to be more like something. It’s essentially the process of pretending you are something, whether that be successful or generous before you actually are that and attempting to almost trick your brain into thinking you are that with the hopes that because of your thoughts, you will become such.

It almost sounds voodoo to hear for the first time but its something that countless people practice, even some of the most successful people have a habit of ‘speaking affirmations into reality’ therefore to ignore the potential power it has would be foolish. You have people like:

Will Smith, Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kayne West

all practice affirmations but why do they do it? From a logical standpoint saying you are something although you’re not doesn’t make any sense because, well, you’re not that, so what is the secret?

Are they effective?

The reason there is a blur around the truth of effectiveness with affirmations is that so many people do them but they practice them wrong, you see affirmations are one thing, it is aligning your brain with what your goals are because although you’re telling yourself you are something that you’re not yet what you’re really doing is setting goals for yourself and pretending that you’re already reaching those goals. Thats really all it is.

The reason this works is that your brain is highly adaptable and if you believe, you shall achieve.

The problem with many still lies in the fact that they think affirmations is all that’s needed, they think they can shout in a mirror what they want to become and poof they shall become so but affirmations are nothing without action. You see, the successful people that practice affirmations don’t just say what they want to become but they have a stack of un-deniable proof that they put action towards those words. Kayne West didn’t become what he is today without putting years’ worth of work in beforehand. Jim Carrey didn’t land his first big movie role without putting countless hours’ worth of work in beforehand.

If you want affirmations to work then you have to give yourself fuel to work off. A fat person can’t stand in front of a mirror and tell themselves they are skinny without putting in the work day in and day out that helps them towards their goal consistently.

Your best approach

What is your best approach? It’s hard to convince yourself you are something if you’re not yet and if you need proof that you are that person before you become them, where do you start?

Start by becoming that person, start to buy putting in the work that’s needed to become the person that you want to be. If you want to become a world star athlete and that’s what you have written on your post-it-note then start training like one, eating like one and focusing like one and as your actions and goals start to align you’ll start to become the person that you’re telling yourself that you are.

Or in simple terms, they become that person before they reached their end goal and start doing what they person would.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Practice self-affirmations because, well it’s proven to work. Whether you truly believe it or not what harm will it do to write some goals on a piece of paper and take a look at them every day?

TAKEAWAYS:

Be careful with what you consume in the self-affirmation world because your goals are extremely easy to be sold to you.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The book of the week is ‘7 Habits of highly effective people’ by Stephen R. Covey. A fantastic read that goes into so much more depth than you would think that explores the principles of effective self-leadership, influence, collaboration, and improvement. You can read it HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The creator of the week is @Joshterryplays, an extremely well-spoken creator who makes simple but intriguing content all focused on making your life better. His videos are straightforward, easy to understand and consume and he’s someone that you want on your timeline. Check him out HERE

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

Don’t take advice from those that are not in a position that you want to be in.

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