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I want to tell you about the top three habits that have radically changed my life and enabled me to manifest the degree of success I have at this point in my life. I have heard, What’s the big deal Mark about affirmations?
First let’s cover the basics, I like to call them affirmations but they are known by many other names. They can be called affirmations, declarations, incantations (personally not a fan of that one… I am not casting any spells on me or anyone else). People call them affirmations; confessions for you. I don’t care what you call it. Affirmations are daily declarations over your life that create your best life that directly create the life of your dreams.
Let me tell you about one of my clients. When I first spoke to him about affirmations, he responded, Man, that’s, that’s like rainbows and unicorn farts. Unicorn farts because these are fictitious things, yeah, nah, that don’t work. Then he started doing some of the work and took some of the principles and some of the lessons that I was teaching him and he began to apply them in his life. And his life is totally different about a year and a half later.
I’ve been doing this for about six years or so. And literally this habit has changed my life… you might be asking yourself… Why should you do daily affirmations? Is this just the power of files of thinking? I have got three reasons why you should seriously consider adding this habit into your routine.
Affirmations have the power to rewire your subconscious mind. Now, this is scientifically proven. There’s a couple of things that have the power to do that. And repetition is one of them. So when you take affirmations and you add the word daily to it. And you make it a practice DAILY, you begin to speak over your life, the life that you want, the marriage that you want, the relationship that you want, the health that you want, the income that you desire, and you begin to shift your thinking. Most of you probably grew up in an environment that was scarcity or lack and even probably the mindset was passed down. I wouldn’t say that was mine necessarily, but there were thoughts of, there’s not enough, not enough for me, not enough for you. If you get some that I get less than. It feels like it is just this fixed pie.
And so for me, and I began to do affirmations; I was really starting there. I started in my relationships. I started in my business. I started in my thinking around money and around abundance. And so when I began to shift these thoughts and begin to speak these things; through the repetition. Repetition is the mother of all skill, repetition is the mother of mastery. And so through that repetition, I begin to rewire my subconscious mind so that I think by default in an abundant mindset, rather than a scarcity or lack mindset.
And that’s not to say I didn’t have a good childhood, I had awesome parents. I think culturally, so many of us, we just grew up with the idea, be happy with what you have and be grateful for what you have got. And I am, but I still had to shift to an abundant mindset. And so repetition rewires your subconscious mind because your subconscious mind is directing the majority of your life.
Your affirmations have the power to activate your imagination. And so when you begin to speak these words many of you probably are aware of the RAS or the reticular activating system, this part of your brain that when you begin to look for something like when you buy a new car and you get a Mercedes-Benz G wagon. And all of a sudden you look around it everywhere you look, there G wagons all over the place, right? And that’s because your RAS, whatever you focus on, you begin to see more of it. Your brain is working overtime. Your subconscious is working overtime to see that thing that you are focused on.
And so when you begin to do these affirmations, not only is it the repetition, but it is activating your imagination which has the power to rewire your subconscious mind. So when you activate that imagination about abundance, about health, about strength, about relationships. When I am speaking into my relationship on a daily basis, that my wife is my partner and my queen, that we are madly in love (which we are), that we are aligned in love and contribution is our purpose. I look for ways to make that true in my life and it activates my imagination. Do affirmations, activate your imagination, create the life that you want
Do you want to manifest your destiny or not? Are you just going to wait for it to fall down out of heaven? Is God going to serve it to you on a silver platter? Life does not work that way. But if you begin to rewire that subconscious mind, activate your imagination. I believe that life and death is in the power of the tongue; I believe we have the power to speak things that are not, so they already are. I believe that when God puts you on this planet, He created you in His image. When God created you, He created a creator in His image complete with the ability to manifest. Grab hold of that idea, today!
So why do affirmations? Because God created you to create because you can manifest your destiny on a daily basis. And I think most of you here believe (no matter where your framework around God is), most of you believe that we’ve got to see it inside you, first, before we can manifest it in our life. I say it all the time. You want to be a millionaire. You’re going to be a millionaire in your mind before you ever are in your bank account, you’ve got to be able to see it and believe it. That’s what these daily affirmations begin to do; as you speak it, as you declared over your life, all of a sudden you begin to manifest your destiny. That’s a big deal and I can tell you from my own personal experience this practice that I do extremely consistently six days a week has created a whole new life for me.
And I’ve given this tool to many other people. I first learned about this, just to give full credit, I read a book called The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod and I highly recommend it. But he talks about the savers in his book. S is for silence, A is for affirmations… read the book if you want the rest. But it was a great book. And he taught me initially about affirmations. And then I’ve had other mentors along the way that have taught me more and poured more into me about the importance of manifesting your destiny through daily affirmations. Now I’ve taken the processes and have been able to develop my own kind of practice, my own unique way of doing it. And guess what… you don’t have to do with the way I do it, but you need to do it.
I don’t care what you call it. You need to do this. I hope this has been a gift to you. You are a creator because you are. Go out and give your greatness to the world because somebody needs what’s on the inside of you. Go out there, give it away. Don’t hold it back because somebody needs you today. Go give it away.
