Affirmations are statements that you repeat to yourself until they become beliefs. They can be used to eliminate negative thinking and to create situations that help you achieve your goals.

You can’t use affirmations to change someone else’s behavior, only your own. So, if you’ve been using affirmations like, “My children listen to me” or “My boss promoted me,” without success, now you know why.

Successful affirmations:

1. Are connected to you, your behavior, and your goals. Your affirmation should focus on what you want to have happen and what you can do to obtain your goal. For example, “I am now saying the right things for my children to listen to me” or “I know what to say to get my children to listen to me and I am now saying the right things to get my children to listen to me.” In these examples, you have informed your subconscious mind that you need to say the right things to change the situation, you are saying them, and you are incorporating your goal of having your children listen to you.

2. Are simple. Affirmations should be simple and easy to remember. Otherwise, it’ll be to easy to make excuses for not saying them, or to simply forget about them.

3. Are positive. Affirmations need to focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want. For example, “I have a promotion.”

4. Are in the present tense. Affirmations work best when phrased in the present tense, not in the future tense. For example, “I now have a new car,” not “I am going to have a new car.”

5. Are filled with emotion. The more positive emotion you put into your affirmations as you say them, the faster you will see results. When you say your affirmation, really feel it. Get excited. Allow yourself to fill up with positive emotion.

   This becomes even more important the longer you use the affirmations. In the beginning, they are exciting and new. After a while, it can feel like you are just saying them to say them. To keep your energy high, track your results, making note of any changes in your life or beliefs since you began using them.

6. Require repetition. You can choose to either repeat the statements to yourself as often as possible during the day, read them a couple of times a day, record them and listen to them while driving or throughout the night as your sleep, or even write them down 15 times every morning, noon, and night.

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So often, people pass through their lives lamenting things around them - paying the bills, for example. They never stop to look at the benefit they receive from these things. All they see is the chore.

The electricity bill comes. You think, “Great, someone wants more of my money. They just take and take and take…always wanting more. What about me? When do I get to enjoy my money? When do I get to spend it on things that I want?”

Ah, but you see, you did. You got pleasure out of using the electricity. You were able to turn on a light whenever you wanted. You watched TV to your heart’s content. You fixed your meals. Your life was made so much easier and so much better. Be grateful for it.

When you pay your bills, focus on the benefit you received - your rent or mortgage bill gave you a place to sleep at night and to store your possessions, your phone bill allowed you to talk to your friends and family.

Don’t see yourself as having to “pay” the bills. Don’t see anyone as taking anything away from you. Doing so will only make you feel like there is never enough.

Instead, see the benefit you derived from “the bills.” Appreciate the prosperity brought to you. Write “thank you” on your checks. Enjoy the process - your wealth will multiply.

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Today is International Happiness Day - a day devoted to the celebration of happiness.

You have the right to be happy.   And you can be happy simply by choosing to be happy. It really that easy.

Think of everything you want to manifest…everything you want to have, be or do… You want it because you think it will make you happy.  So why not choose to be happy now?  Once you do so, you will begin to attract everything you desire faster and easier.

If you’re having trouble feeling happy, just think of some things you’re grateful for.

I’m grateful to be alive. 

I’m grateful for my friends and family.

I’m grateful that every day I get to wake up and live the life I desire.

I’m grateful for the unexpected and amazing shopping spree I went on last week.

I’m grateful for today’s beautiful weather.

I’m grateful for the wonderful, delicious summer produce showing up at the farmer’s market.

What are you grateful for?  What makes you happy?

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July 10 is International Happiness Day. 

Started by Liberto Pereda Romera of Spain, the premise is simple: “What would happen in the world if 1,000,000 people celebrated happiness the same day?”

We know that our thoughts create.  Imagine the power of 1,000,000 thoughts all focused on the same thing - happiness.  What can we create?

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There has been a lot of discussion about the economy lately.  You hear it one the news everyday.  You read it in the newspaper and in magazines.  You hear people talking about it.  What choice do you have but to accept that the economy, to put it bluntly, sucks?

You have a pretty big choice actually.  Just because everyone and everything seems to say the economy is in a downturn, doesn’t mean it has to be true for you.  It can be true for them, but not for you.  You can thrive in any economy.  Everything can be great in your world.

Choose to thrive right now.  Let everything you see and hear about the economy be a signpost for you - a signpost of what you don’t want.  Let it help you determine what it is that you do want so that you can begin focusing your energy on creating your prosperity.

You control what you see in your world.  Only you have control over your life.  No one can create anything for you unless you allow them to.

Choose how you want to feel.

Focus on things that make you feel good.

If you begin to worry or feel fear when you watch the news or read a newspaper or magazine, stop watching the news and reading the newspaper or magazine.

If you can’t stop worrying about the economy, talk to someone that you know can make you feel better.

If you hear someone say this is the next Great Depression, say, either to yourself or aloud, “Great!  People became millionaires in the first one; now it’s my turn.”

If you don’t know how to think the thoughts or feel the feelings that are necessary for manifesting your own prosperity, study everything you can find on manifesting.

If you want to increase your prosperity, claim it as yours. Don’t simply ask for it and wait around.  Claim it as yours now.

Eliminate the word “bad” from your vocabulary.  There is no such things as a good economy or a bad economy.  It is what you perceive that matters.  Alter your perception and your life will change.

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Oprah is airing a show today on the Law of Attraction.  It’s focusing on success stories from people who have used the Law of Attraction to change their lives.  If you’re looking for inspiration or just want to learn more about the Law of Attraction, check it out.

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Do you find yourself saying, “I’d really like to manifest this, but I should manifest this other thing first. It’s what I really need,” or “I’d really like that, but I probably won’t get it, so I’ll try for this smaller thing”?

If so, stop!

Don’t hesitate when asking for anything, even the really big things. You can truly have, be or do anything you desire. There is nothing too large or too impossible. You don’t have to ask for one thing first and something else later on. Ask for whatever you want now, exactly as you would really enjoy having it.

Everything you could ever need to make your desires manifest is within you. It’s as easy as figuring out what you want and allowing yourself to receive it. Any other rules about asking for what you need before what you want, asking for what you think you should have before what you desire, asking for only what you think you’ll be able to get…those are all rules created by you.

The Universe will follow your rules if you tell it to. But the Universe has the ability to grant you whatever you want. All you have to do is allow it to.

The only thing holding you back from having what you really desire is you. This is your life, make the most of it. Ask for everything you want.

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You know what you want. You know what you don’t want. So, why is your life filled with more of the things you don’t want than the things you do want?

It’s simple, really.

You need more love.

You see, love is what brings the things you desire to you. It makes a pathway for them to enter into your life.

The way love works is by helping you focus in a positive way on everything in your life now and everything you want to have. Rather than looking at things and saying, “I hate that,” “I wish I had that,” “Why do they have that and I don’t?” love forces you to open up and realize that there is something good in all things.

The things in your life that you wish you could change – there’s a reason they’re there. While that reason may not always be clear, one thing always is – you created them. Why and how you created them may not be known, but they are there. Learn to love them. They’re yours. No matter how much you might dislike them, how they irk you, how they just makes you want to scream from the top of your lungs for them to go away…there is something positive about them. Find that positive aspect and learn to love it. Love will open a way for the things you want to change to leave your life and to allow you to attract what you truly desire.

Also, begin to love what you desire as if you already had it now. The more you love it, the more you can feel that good emotion, the faster your desire will manifest.

And, most importantly, the more often you feel the feeling of love regardless of the reason, the more you allow love to flow throughout your body, the more good things will begin happening to you. You won’t even have to ask for things to happen, they just will…unexpectedly.

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Life can be a power struggle at times.  You want to do one thing.  Those around you expect you to do what they want.  They might tell you you’re not good enough.  They may make you feel useless.  You might want to scream from the top of your lungs with anger and frustration.

But can these people keep you from living the life of your dreams?

Yes, they can…

but only if you let them.

Other people only have as much power over you as you allow them to have.  If you think they can hold you back, they will hold you back.  In fact, the very thought that they can hold you back will hold you back.

When it comes to manifesting any desire you have, it is your beliefs that matter, not anyone else’s.

See yourself how you want to see yourself, not how others see you.

It is your life; choose how you want to live it.

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Everything happening around you is a contrast of the things you desire and the things you don’t desire.  They can range from things you perceive to be good and bad to life’s problems and successes.  Some of these things you notice, others you don’t.

Whenever life isn’t going the way you want it to, whenever problems or challenges abound, you are being given an opportunity to gain insight about life, a chance to gain new personal understanding.  You can choose to view things as problems or you can view them as an opportunity for personal growth.

Whenever things aren’t going your way, ask yourself how what’s happening fits into your personal growth.  How is it causing your awareness to change?  What wonderful things are you missingby focusing on it?  What other experiences are occurring simultaneously that you could be grateful for or inspired by?

You get to choose what you experience.  Allow any problems in your life to give you greater clarity about the things you want to experience.  Then let the problems go and focus on the thingsthat make you feel good.

Your life will always be filled with the contrast of the things you desire and the things you wish not to experience.  It’s your job to decide which direction you wish to take.  The more you choose to focus on what you want, the more you choose to focus on what makes you feel good, the more you will attract the things you desire.

What are you paying attention to?

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