Do you have a habit of seeing the glass as half empty or half full? You have probably heard that question plenty of times. Your answer relates directly to the concept of positive thinking and whether you have a positive or negative outlook on life.
Positive thinking plays an significant role in every area of your life and the way you think also shows how happy and fulfilled you are. More importantly how you feel all the time.
Research has found that positive thinking can help you manifest your dream life, aid in stress management and even plays an important role in your overall health and well-being.
It can help combat feelings of low self-esteem, improve physical health, and help brighten your overall outlook on life.
This article discusses the power of positive thinking using positive affirmations to achieve your dreams and goals.
It also explores some of the strategies you can use to become a more positive thinker and stay committed to your dreams and goals.
#1. Positivity Develops From Repeating Positive Thoughts And Affirmations.
I want you to use this fact to your advantage because by repeating key actions, thoughts and positive affirmations, you can quite literally reprogram how you think and act for the better.
I’ll say this again because it is so important: Most of the things you want to achieve in life are just outside your comfort zone.
Consider the people who excel in things you’ve always wanted to do well. Basketball players are incredible shots not necessarily because of some innate talent to toss a ball through a net but because they took the time needed to practice, practice, practice and become exceptional.
They used the power of repetition to build those neural pathways of muscle memory and become exceptional at shooting a basketball. You can do this in almost every aspect of your life.
It’s exactly what we’re doing with these affirmations. We are rewiring the brain for certain belief systems through repetition, and using the words of motivational speakers and forward thinkers to discover new ways to be successful.
Repetition in thought comes from flooding your brain with the positive ways of thinking used by men and women in the field you’re trying to master.
And it doesn’t happen overnight. What makes repetition so powerful is that it can be used over the period of days and weeks. No one ever gets 100% better at something in a week, but if you work hard at something every day, you can improve by 1% a day for 90 days – reaching almost 100% by the end of the third month.
Some people never improve 100% in any aspect of their life. They settle into the status quo and what is expected of them – doing everything just well enough. You can be better immediately by capturing the power of repetition and reprogramming your brain to truly believe you can do it.
#2. Creating Competency with Positive Thinking.
“Any thought put in your mind and nourished regularly will produce results in your life.” - John Kehoe
Nothing could be truer as you set out on the path to success through positive thinking and affirmation.
Whatever your goal is in life, whether it is to be rich, marry the perfect partner, have beautiful children or buy your dream home, visualize it and with enough repetition, it will come to pass.
On average, it takes 90 days to become consciously competent in a new skill, so we want to tap into that and make sure every one of your goals and affirmations is built on a 90 day timeframe.
Even just 60 days is good, but one or two weeks are not enough. It needs to be consistent over time.
#3. Power of Positive Affirmations.
A lot of people tell me that the hardest part about visualization is that they don’t enjoy doing it. And like most things that people don’t enjoy, they quit fairly quickly.
If this sounds like you and repetition is boring or just never quite catches on with you, your first affirmation should be to reprogram yourself to enjoy the process of affirmation.
Say it over and over again for 5 minutes over 90 days and you will start to enjoy affirmations in a way that you never dreamed possible.
- I’m a Master of Using Repetition to My Advantage.
- I Love Visualizing My Goals for Five Minutes Every Day.
#4. Acknowledge Your Positive Qualities.
The secret to success in most parts of your life is success. When you succeed in one area of your life, it gives you the confidence to excel in other areas equally well.
Imagine how you feel when a dream comes true or when you have a “perfect day”.
These small victories fuel your ambition to make other dreams come true and can work in almost every aspect of your life.
Whether you want to become rich, have a great health, get out of debt, go on a vacation or whatever you want. It all comes from repeating what you want again and again to the point it becomes a part of you.
#5. Finding the Positive Qualities in Your Life.
Some people do an amazing job at recognizing where they excel and how they are unique, but for most of us it is a chore.
It takes time and in many cases a great deal of conscious training to make these thoughts a reality.
So, what we need to do is sit down for a few minutes a day or even just a few seconds and consider the things that you excel at.
By acknowledging your positive qualities and imprinting new self-beliefs that encourage positive self-esteem, you create a mindset that will thrive on challenges and opportunities to excel.
If you’re worried that you don’t speak five languages, climb mountains and play three instruments, don’t. Your positive qualities don’t have to be complicated skillsets.
If you have a complex skillset you’ve developed over many years, by all means acknowledge it, but for most people this isn’t the case. If you don’t fall into this category, find anything in life that you can be proud of.
Here are some examples to acknowledge your positive qualities.
- I have great taste in clothes.
- My house is always clean and tidy.
- I bought my wife flowers last week.
- I sponsor a child at Christian Children’s Fund.
- I spend lots of quality time with my children.
- I’m good at cooking BBQs.
- I helped my child with her homework last night.
These don’t even need to be affirmations – all you need to do is sit down and acknowledge these things, recognizing that you are in fact a skilled and talented person with things you can be proud of in your life.
Five minutes a day spent recognizing the things you do in life that make you special will allow you feel good about yourself and put you in the frame of mind needed to take on challenges with a positive perspective instead of that incessant negativity.
Your brain looks for problems all the time. Every corner you turn, ever piece of mail you receive, every person you run into on the street – it’s a potential problem and you brace yourself for something to go wrong.
What you want to do is get your brain ready for positive thinking.
By doing this consciously on a daily basis for a few minutes or even just a few seconds, you’ll slowly train yourself to do it unconsciously – replacing all those negative thoughts with positive ones.
#6. Commit Yourself to Greatness Using The Power of Positivity.
This life only happens once so make it the best it can be.
Everything you do in life should strive for greatness – being just good enough isn’t enough. You need to strive to be better and in the result, happier, than you ever imagined.
The best part is that with every new belief you imprint on your mind, you’ll find the world around you changes to support those new beliefs.
As a result, your life becomes a manifestation of your thoughts. This allows you to strive for greatness in ways you never before dreamed possible.
You now have the power to live a truly inspirational and miraculous life, and you want to know the best part? It only takes 10 minutes a day to experience truly dramatic results.
#Positive Affirmations To Achieve Greatness.
On your path to greatness, I want you to really look inside and consider which affirmations will help you to achieve your dreams. Here are a few more of my favorites:
- I’m committed to achieving personal greatness.
- I’m committed to using all that I have to become all that I can be.
- I spend ten minutes every day imprinting empowering beliefs upon my mind.
- I am an inspiration to myself and others.
- I regularly take time to appreciate others.
- I am great the way I am right now.
- Life is exciting and fun.
- There are massive amounts of money making opportunities.
- Most people are kind and trustworthy.
- I’m committed to success and am great at overcoming obstacles.
- I’m the kind of person who always follows through.
That's it for now.
I want you to be aware that with any goal or dream you have, whether it is to lose weight, learn a new skill, attract your ideal partner, or become financially free. It all starts with positive thinking in your mind.
You have the power inside right now to achieve personal greatness and to inspire others in ways you never dreamed possible.
That alone should be enough to drive you forward to pursue the dreams you’ve held on to for so many years.
It’s time to stop hoping and start achieving. Keep reading and forever, keep dreaming.
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