Negative Affirmations are Never Good and Replacement Goals Reap Rewards

PART 1:
Believe it or not the average person uses up to 5 Negative Affirmations every waking hour to program themselves for failure each day. If you pay close attention, you might start noticing yourself and others saying things like; "This is so hard", or "I can't do this", or "I never have enough time to get stuff done", or "I can't ever remember names", or "I'm such a klutz", or "I always catch a Cold this time of year", or "With my luck I'll probably mess this up".

Since the Sub-conscious mind does not have the ability to doubt or reason, it totally believes whatever we program into it. If you look outside tomorrow morning and it's overcast and you say; "What a crummy day", the sub-conscious doesn't know you're only referring to the weather. All it heard was the programming of the day, that's it's going to be a crummy day.

Be willing to try an experiment and pay close attention to how many Negative Affirmations you catch yourself using over the next week. Every time you hear yourself using a Negative Affirmation, stop, even if it's in mid-sentence and either say "Cancel" or try to replace it with a Positive Affirmation.

PART 2:
One critical factor that most Speakers or Trainers neglect to mention when teaching Goal Setting is what to do after you achieve a Goal. There is a real danger lurking after you’ve worked for days, or weeks, or even months to achieve something special and then achieve that Goal.

If you quit working toward something extra you run the risk of falling back into a comfort zone with the other 95% plus people on the face of the earth. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t enjoy whatever you accomplished and worked so hard to achieve, however you absolutely must immediately set a Replacement Goal.

The moment you achieve any Goal decide specifically what you want to accomplish next, set a due date, write it down in the form of a Positive Affirmation, and continue to grow. Always remember that; "When you’re Green you Grow and when you’re Ripe you Rot."
   By Stan Billue
Published: 5/28/2007
 
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