Affirmations Work!

I didn’t know what affirmations even were when I started my first business… But I learned that they work… I’m just glad I started with the money ones! 🙂

When I started my first business, the people who introduced me to it immediately told me to start reading… Think and Grow Rich, The Game of Life and How to Play It, and more.

And they taught me about affirmations.

ALL that stuff was fufu to me. I couldn’t believe that they thought I would have time to do all that reading on top of writing down goals, posting flyers, making calls, and learning everything I had to know about being a business owner!

After all, I had started a business to make money, not to learn a new way to talk to myself!

But I did it anyway. I did it because people earning what I wanted to earn said to.

And since money was the primary purpose of my starting the business, I started with a financial affirmation… “I’m earning $50,000 per month!”

That’s right. My first affirmation was that I was earning more in a month than I’d earned in an entire year up to that point. And you know what happened?

I heard a voice inside my head right after I said it that said, “Yeah right!! Like THAT’S even possible!”

My thought was “What’s wrong with you?! If you’re MY subconscious then shouldn’t you be working WITH me on this plan?!”Luckily for me, “they” (the top income earners and the books I’d been reading) had warning me that this would happen. Something about my subconscious mind getting in the way of my success and my goals.

Well, because I’m stubborn, I kept repeating the affirmation all day long while I was posting flyers… about 12-14 hours a day.

Initially, the voice was persistent… “No you’re not!”, “You can’t do that!”, “You know you’re lying!” sort of things.

And then they gradually started quieting down.

It took a few months, but I eventually stopped hearing any of those things at all. And then it happened… I GOT IT!

I knew that the affirmations were working on changing my self-talk and beliefs the day someone out of the blue said, “Hey, how much money do you make?” And my knee-jerk response was, “$50,000…. er, about $15,000 a month right now.”

THAT’S when I knew that affirmations worked. And the best month I ever had in that business was… wait for it… $50,000!

Hmmmm…. shoulda made that affirmation a bit higher eh?

I did learn a few things along the way though that might help.

• Make sure you’re affirmations do NOT include words “don’t” or “not”. For example, rather than say “I will not get sick this winter”, change it to “I WILL be healthy all winter”. Your subconscious mind focuses on the main points so all it picks up the first way is “I WILL get sick… “. It’s sort of like saying “I will NOT think about a pink elephant”… Guess what? 🙂

• Including specific time frames typically will bring about results sooner. For example, “I will be enjoying my Caribbean cruise in October, 2014” will get you there faster than “I will go on a cruise to the Caribbean”.

• If you’re setting high financial goals and just flat ass don’t believe they’ll EVER be possible, you can get the fight to stop a bit if you change it to “I am BECOMING a 7-figure income earner with everything I DO” type of affirmation rather than “I AM a 7-figure income earner”.

It took me a while to learn that those little things like that make a BIG difference. I can’t wait to hear about your results!

Your Turn: Are you familiar with affirmations? Do you have a favorite? Do you remember a time when it “dawned” on you that they truly work? If you don’t do them regularly, why not?

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