Self-Affirmations: The Truth

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SELF-AFFIRMATIONS: THE TRUTH

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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 it's 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, and 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: 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. That's 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 are all that’s needed; they think they can shout in a mirror what they want to become and that they will become so, but affirmations are nothing without action. You see, the successful people who practice affirmations don’t just say what they want to become; they have a stack of un-deniable proof that they take 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 in countless hours’ worth of work beforehand.

If you want affirmations to work, then you have to give yourself fuel to work them 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

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 put 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 reach their end goal and start doing what that 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:

Your best approach is to pretend that you are already the person that you want to become. After a long enough period of time of doing the thing that the person you want to become would do, you will become that person.

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