Affirmations Overview
What are positive affirmations?
Having the right mindset is the key to success.
Positive affirmation quotes and insights provide the steps to setting the right mindset.
Positive affirmations are statements that will shape your mindset for achievement, by challenging the negative thoughts.
Why are positive affirmations important?
Every historical figure that achieved greatness, had to believe that they can do it.
No one accidentally achieved success.
Yes, they went through doubts and self criticism, but what made them successful was the belief that they can achieve their goals.
Positive affirmations help adjust the mindset to a can do vs. unable to do.
They strengthen the positive neural pathways in your brain.
How to create positive affirmations?
Write down positive and encouraging phrases and statements about yourself
- Use present tense
- Begin with “I am..”
- Do not use any negative words
- Make them meaningful to you
Read the affirmations to yourself daily
Insights from Historical Figures
Marcus Aurelius
Thoughts shape your perception
Examining your thoughts leads to happiness and peace
Speak and think positively about yourself
Pay attention to where value is placed
Know that only you can control your actions and perceptions
Rene Descartes
Understand that your thoughts do not control you.
YOU chose the thoughts to focus on.
Listen to the thoughts you think and say about yourself.
If they are negative, put them to the test. Are they true beyond any reasonable doubt?
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Affirmations Quotes
You can remove out of the way many useless things among those which disturb you, for they lie entirely in your opinion; and you will then gain for yourself ample space for comprehending the whole universe in your mind
Marcus Aurelius
There is no one who hinders you from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which you are a part.
Marcus Aurelius
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
Marcus Aurelius
But if anything in your own disposition gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion?
Marcus Aurelius
You can pass through life in an undisturbed flow of happiness if you can take the right path and think and act in the right way.
Marcus Aurelius
I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
12. But above all things respect thyself.
Pythagoras
Endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power
Rene Descartes
Because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, even on the simplest matters of geometry, I, convinced that I was as open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings I had hitherto taken for demonstrations;
Rene Descartes
I think, therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM)
Rene Descartes