Morning Affirmations are an incredibly powerful tool to improve the quality of our thinking. This 3-step guide lays out a simple plan to create your own “I Am” Affirmations for success!
What are morning affirmations?
Morning affirmations are really just a simple way to retrain our thinking to either eliminate negative belief patterns from our lives or to create positive new ones. It’s all about taking responsibility for your thoughts and building consistent patterns to make a change.
A 3-Step Guide to Creating “I Am” Affirmations For Success:
- Step 1: You have to accept 100 per cent responsibility for the negative thoughts and experiences in your life.
- Step 2: Write out a list of your recurring negative thoughts… the things you believe are sabotaging your life and you want to change.
- Step 3: Rewrite these thoughts into positive ones using the phrase “I Am.” Say them out loud each morning, and imagine what your life looks like under this new reality.
The Problem With Generic Affirmations
If you YouTube “affirmations,” you’ll come across a whole bunch of videos over an hour long that use this strategy but they’re really vague. It’s a constant flow of “I am happiness. I am abundance. I am open.”
Don’t get me wrong; this clearly works for some people, but you’ll have way more success focusing on your own personal limiting beliefs, because you can target the areas that you’ve identified as weaknesses, thus getting more specific results.
Right now I have 17 morning affirmations that are part of my ritual and I could never understate how important they are.
To recap, here’s how the three negative thoughts in Step #2 became positive “I am” affirmations in step #3.
- “I’m working in an industry where the pie is shrinking and I’ll never make any real money,” became, “I am a successful multimedia entrepreneur adding one of a kind value for our team and audience.”
- “I procrastinate and wait until the last minute to get things done,” became, “I am a proactive, disciplined, focused and consistent professional.”
- “I take the easy road and waste a lot of time,” became “I am constantly conditioning myself to embrace discomfort through daily cold exposure, tackling difficult tasks and looking for better ways to shorten deadlines.
You have a choice to change the way you think. It won’t happen overnight, but with consistent practice I promise that by thinking things that make you feel good, it’ll have an enormous positive impact on every area of your life.
Also, check out my previous coverage of how to crush procrastination forever, which is part of our side hustle series: