Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.”~ Dennis Waitley
Today I want to share a powerful strategy that will change your self-image. Few things about us are more closely linked to our thinking than our self-image. Someone’s belief about who he or she is can make the anorexic feel fat, the average athlete a star, and the beautiful girl see herself as an ugly duckling. When it comes to this topic, thinking not reality, rules.
The famous scientist Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the creator of Psycho-Cybernetics stated it plainly,“The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.”
I encourage you to say any of the below listed affirmations over and over so they will change your thinking and become part of your belief system about yourself.
By the way, affirmations are words or phrases which are said over and over to AFFIRM a single thought about yourself or other people. This is the way you have formed negative and positive programming throughout your lifetime, saying things to yourself, about yourself, over and over. After thoughts are repeated, they soon become a BELIEF, and then we think this belief is our reality. Since we created these beliefs we can also change them. This is where real freedom comes from.
As you say the following affirmations, feel so jazzed up about what you are saying that you feel like it is already there, then you’ll be well on your way to a healthy self-image.
1. Being who I am is a blessing and a rush. There’s no one else I’d rather be!
2. I accept myself exactly as I am. I am at absolute peace with myself.
3. I like myself. I don’t like everything I do, and I want to change—but I refuse to reject myself.
4. I unconditionally love and respect myself in every way.
5. I am the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am glad to be who I am!
6.Today I make a bold statement. The world deserves the real me and today it gets me.
7. I am a unique and worthy person. I require no more justification than that to be exactly who I am.
8. What matters is who I AM not who I’ve been! Today I release everything I hold against myself.
9. When I look into the mirror I see my perfections not my imperfections!
10. My beauty flows from inside to out. As I recognize my inner beauty, my outer beauty blossoms.
11. Those who told me I was unworthy were wrong. I AM worthy.
12. As I feel more attractive, I AM more attractive. Today I am very attractive!
13. The more I love and appreciate myself, the more beautiful I become.
14. I look and feel wonderful.
15. Happiness is an attitude NOT a number on a scale. Today I am happy with who I am.
16. I am beautiful in mind. I am beautiful in body. I am beautiful in spirit.
17. I am a valuable and important person, and I am worthy of the respect of others.
18. I feel warm and loving toward myself, for I am a unique and precious being ever doing the best my awareness permits, ever growing in wisdom and love.
19. I am powerful.
Love Yourself Today: Review the list of 19 affirmations that will help you gain a healthy self-image. Which one do you need to focus on most today?
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
17 questions to help you in discovering your life's purpose
If you want to experience inner peace and ultimate fulfillment in life, it's critical that you discover your purpose. Without a purpose as the compass to guide you, your goals and action plans may not ultimately fulfill you.
Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take. For some of us, our purpose and passions are obvious and clear. For other people, though, it's not as easy to identify.
I believe that everyone has a purpose inside of them, and our job is to discover and fulfill that purpose. In my own life, I've met a lot of people who don't know their purpose. You know what? They don't know because they think it has to be some big thing so they are not keyed in.
The following are a list of questions that can assist you in finding your purpose. They are meant as a guide to help you get into a frame of mind that will be conducive to defining your personal mission.
1. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.)
2. What are your favorite things to do in the past? What about now?
3. What activities make you lose track of time?
4. What makes you feel great about yourself?
5. Who inspires you most? (Anyone you know or do not know. Family, friends, authors, artists, leaders, etc.) Which qualities inspire you, in each person?
6. What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
7. What do people typically ask you for help in?
8. If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
9. What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
10. You are now 90 years old, sitting on a rocking chair outside your porch; you can feel the spring breeze gently brushing against your face. You are blissful and happy, and are pleased with the wonderful life you’ve been blessed with. Looking back at your life and all that you’ve achieved and acquired, all the relationships you’ve developed; what matters to you most? List them out.
11. What are your deepest values? and prioritize the words in order of importance to you.
12. What were some challenges, difficulties and hardships you’ve overcome or are in the process of overcoming? How did you do it?
13. What causes do you strongly believe in? Connect with?
14. If you could get a message across to a large group of people. Who would those people be? What would your message be?
15. Given your talents, passions and values. How could you use these resources to serve, to help, to contribute? ( to people, beings, causes, organization, environment, planet, etc.)
16. What’s God’s plan for your life?
17. What would you do if you knew you were going to die in 3 months' time.What would be the last thing that you would do?
18. What would you do if money and fear were not a factor?
Remember, you were born in this world for a reason; and your real job is to figure out "Why am I here?" and fulfill that purpose.
What questions can you add to the above list. Please share in the comments' section below.
Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take. For some of us, our purpose and passions are obvious and clear. For other people, though, it's not as easy to identify.
I believe that everyone has a purpose inside of them, and our job is to discover and fulfill that purpose. In my own life, I've met a lot of people who don't know their purpose. You know what? They don't know because they think it has to be some big thing so they are not keyed in.
The following are a list of questions that can assist you in finding your purpose. They are meant as a guide to help you get into a frame of mind that will be conducive to defining your personal mission.
1. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.)
2. What are your favorite things to do in the past? What about now?
3. What activities make you lose track of time?
4. What makes you feel great about yourself?
5. Who inspires you most? (Anyone you know or do not know. Family, friends, authors, artists, leaders, etc.) Which qualities inspire you, in each person?
6. What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
7. What do people typically ask you for help in?
8. If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
9. What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
10. You are now 90 years old, sitting on a rocking chair outside your porch; you can feel the spring breeze gently brushing against your face. You are blissful and happy, and are pleased with the wonderful life you’ve been blessed with. Looking back at your life and all that you’ve achieved and acquired, all the relationships you’ve developed; what matters to you most? List them out.
11. What are your deepest values? and prioritize the words in order of importance to you.
12. What were some challenges, difficulties and hardships you’ve overcome or are in the process of overcoming? How did you do it?
13. What causes do you strongly believe in? Connect with?
14. If you could get a message across to a large group of people. Who would those people be? What would your message be?
15. Given your talents, passions and values. How could you use these resources to serve, to help, to contribute? ( to people, beings, causes, organization, environment, planet, etc.)
16. What’s God’s plan for your life?
17. What would you do if you knew you were going to die in 3 months' time.What would be the last thing that you would do?
18. What would you do if money and fear were not a factor?
Remember, you were born in this world for a reason; and your real job is to figure out "Why am I here?" and fulfill that purpose.
What questions can you add to the above list. Please share in the comments' section below.
How to see challenges as opportunities
"Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential."~Myles Munroe
Are you a person who loves challenges, or hates them? I must admit I've spent most of my life as a person who hates them. I always thought of challenges as frustrating, maddening obstacles keeping me from where I want to be. I even used to take them personally, feeling like the world is against me :( In fact, I used to tell people years ago "I have challenges"; but now I don't do that anymore. As I grow older and (hopefully) wiser - I find my tenacious nature rising up to meet these challenges, and I'm learning to see them differently. I always say now "I have opportunities to grow". Whenever something happens in my life that I didn't expect or can't control, my thought patterns are "This is an opportunity for me to test some untapped abilities to use some skills I never used before; and this has come to draw on hidden potentials in me that I never had the chance to use."
Change Your Entire Beliefs About What Challenges Are
Many people look at challenges as problems but I want people to really change the way they define and see challenges. We have to realize that the words we use create an energy of their own. So, I want to challenge everybody to see that they can see challenges as opportunities for themselves since that's what they really are. Challenges are opportunities for us to expand and grow. As I look at the most difficult situations in my life, the biggest challenges have caused me to grow the most. Out of necessity, they have helped me to create the level of skill and ability that have shaped my life way beyond anything I would have dreamed of before.
Every Challenge Contains An Opportunity To Grow
In the Chinese language the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same. This is a fascinating concept and suggests that every challenge you encounter contains a powerful opportunity to grow beyond your current mindset and circumstances. The greatest success stories are created by people who recognized a challenge and turned it into an opportunity. You'll find that every situation, properly perceived, offers you an opportunity to delve deeper into your true nature and discover new aspects of yourself. In the process, you'll feel inspired and excited about your life and what lies ahead and motivated to live at the edge of your potential.
Conclusion
Challenges are truly opportunities -i.e opportunities to grow and learn, to strengthen ourselves, to test ourselves and our faith. They reveal how badly we want to create the dreams in our hearts, and how hard we're willing to work for them. This is such a blessing. It may not seem that way at first, but with a tiny shift in attitude, we can see that we have been handed an incredible opportunity.
As Napoleo Hill said, "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”
Are you a person who loves challenges, or hates them? I must admit I've spent most of my life as a person who hates them. I always thought of challenges as frustrating, maddening obstacles keeping me from where I want to be. I even used to take them personally, feeling like the world is against me :( In fact, I used to tell people years ago "I have challenges"; but now I don't do that anymore. As I grow older and (hopefully) wiser - I find my tenacious nature rising up to meet these challenges, and I'm learning to see them differently. I always say now "I have opportunities to grow". Whenever something happens in my life that I didn't expect or can't control, my thought patterns are "This is an opportunity for me to test some untapped abilities to use some skills I never used before; and this has come to draw on hidden potentials in me that I never had the chance to use."
Change Your Entire Beliefs About What Challenges Are
Many people look at challenges as problems but I want people to really change the way they define and see challenges. We have to realize that the words we use create an energy of their own. So, I want to challenge everybody to see that they can see challenges as opportunities for themselves since that's what they really are. Challenges are opportunities for us to expand and grow. As I look at the most difficult situations in my life, the biggest challenges have caused me to grow the most. Out of necessity, they have helped me to create the level of skill and ability that have shaped my life way beyond anything I would have dreamed of before.
Every Challenge Contains An Opportunity To Grow
In the Chinese language the words "crisis" and "opportunity" are the same. This is a fascinating concept and suggests that every challenge you encounter contains a powerful opportunity to grow beyond your current mindset and circumstances. The greatest success stories are created by people who recognized a challenge and turned it into an opportunity. You'll find that every situation, properly perceived, offers you an opportunity to delve deeper into your true nature and discover new aspects of yourself. In the process, you'll feel inspired and excited about your life and what lies ahead and motivated to live at the edge of your potential.
Conclusion
Challenges are truly opportunities -i.e opportunities to grow and learn, to strengthen ourselves, to test ourselves and our faith. They reveal how badly we want to create the dreams in our hearts, and how hard we're willing to work for them. This is such a blessing. It may not seem that way at first, but with a tiny shift in attitude, we can see that we have been handed an incredible opportunity.
As Napoleo Hill said, "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”
The Power of Planning¦
Consider these few thoughts about thoughts. A thought is a silent word. Therefore, a word is an exposed thought. Everything in life starts in the form of a thought.
Imagination is when a thought becomes a plan. Therefore, imagination is a plan that is not documented. If you want to be successful in life, take your ideas, turn them into imaginations, and then take the imagination and duplicate it physically. The physical document becomes a plan of action.
Many people never get beyond the idea stage. Those are the people that are usually followers. Next there are people who get to the imagination stage. They usually talk a lot but do nothing. Those people are called dreamers. However, when a man or woman takes their imagination and puts it on paper, you are looking at a visionary who is becoming a missionary. If you see things in your mind, you are a visionary.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of visionaries in the graveyard. They had great visions, but their vision never became a mission. When a visionary becomes a missionary, you have a man or woman who is going to change the world.
Consider now the Divine thoughts on thoughts. In the Book of Ephesians, God’s thoughts about thoughts and imagination are revealed. It states, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Eph 3:20). Evidently, God wants us to become people who have plans. He says to use your imagination, but imaginations are plans that are undocumented. When you can document an imagination, you have developed a plan of action for your life. I can guarantee that people who are confused, bored, or disillusioned probably do not have a piece of paper in their life with their plan on it for the next five years. If you do not have anything to look at, you begin reminiscing. If there is no goal in front of you, you check the hazardous holes behind you. If there is no vision in front of you to pull you, you will be dragged back to a past with which you are familiar.
If you do not have a clear plan for your life on paper, you are going to be a confused, misguided person. For this reason, the Scripture says so clearly in Proverbs 16:1, “To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue.” The author goes on to say, “In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps” (Prov 16:9).
As God commanded Moses, document your plan. When you have it all down on paper, if you get confused, you have something to which you can refer. I admonish you to stop, plot your course, and set it for as far as you can imagine. Do not worry about how it is going to get done. God said that if you make the plan, He would give the answer as to how it will be accomplished (Prov 16:1).
The secret to confidence
How do you act when unexpected circumstances arise? Are you confident or do you panic? Think on this scenario.
Your supervisor calls for you to come into his office. Immediately, your coworkers begin to remind you and warn you of the problems that are going on in the company. They tell you, “The corporate office is laying people off. Your job security is hanging in the balance.” Your fellow workers begin to make you think that you’d better be intimidated by your supervisor and afraid for your future. What should be your response? Do you panic?
God wants some people who are peculiar, who respond differently in life. A confident response is formulated from a Counselor who is from another world. Who is this counselor? Jesus stated, “But you know Him, for He lives in you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you” (John 14:17-18). This statement is one of the most amazing truths.
The Bible says that God will give us His own counselor – the Spirit of truth. He knows the truth about you. Jesus stated, “The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace, I leave with you.” (John 14:26).
So relax. Don’t be ruffled. Have peace. If you are a citizen of the kingdom of God, you have the Holy Spirit. You may know that the light bill, water bill, and other bills are coming this week. Just relax. Why? You are a leader, and leaders don’t panic.
Leaders stop and think. They are rational. They have the mindset, “I’m coming out of my situation.” In their times of many adverse circumstances, leaders believe, “They that are with us are more than they that are against us” (2 Kings 16:6). Leaders think with the power of confidence because they are not alone.
Jesus instruction was, “Don’t let your heart be troubled. The Holy spirit will remind you of things He has taught you.”
One of the marks of leaders is that they are not afraid of anything. The Bible says if you follow God, you will not be afraid. Are you afraid this week?
If you are a citizen of His Kingdom, the same God that brought you through last week is waiting in next week for you. God is a God of leadership. Everything is going to be okay tomorrow. Tomorrow is already finished in God’s calendar. Be at peace for the Holy Spirit is going to train you how to think. If these thoughts are not true for you, you may want to adjust your life to align with the principles of the Kingdom of God.
What are you thinking?
Until you know the truth abut you, you are living a lie. I do not trust anybody to tell me the truth about me, nobody really knows. The Bible states, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit” (1 Cor 2:9-10)
That is why we have to get information from the Truth. Jesus said that, “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31). It will set you free from people’s opinions. Until you get the truth from the Holy Spirit, you have been living a lie. The Bible shows us, “The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him” (John 14:7).
The Holy Spirit tells you who you are, and the world says, “We disagree.” The Holy Spirit says what you can accomplish, and the world says, “That is not true.” When the truth really hits you, half of your family will disagree with you because the truth about you is so unnatural to them.
Paul says, “The world cannot judge you when you are walking in the Spirit of truth” (1 Cor 2:15). The Holy Spirit knows the truth about you, but the world cannot judge you. They cannot discern or understand it. That means when the Lord reveals to you what is true about you; they will not be able to handle it.
People still look at me and say, “That little boy from Bain Town, who does he think he is?” I am glad that they don’t know who I think I am. You better have your own thoughts about yourself, and do not allow anyone to “think” for you.
You can tell that some people do not like you in the first place, so you know that they are not going to think well of you anyhow. Some people are wishing that you fail. Do not look to them for any encouragement. The world cannot receive the information that the Holy Spirit has about you.
The world does not even know who the citizens of God’s kingdom know, and the world cannot even see Him. As a citizen of the kingdom, every day when you go to work, you should seek to do your best. However, you should not act as though you depend on your boss, even if your organization is laying people off. You must tell yourself, “They did not hire me, and they cannot fire me. If I am released, it is because God does not want me to be employed here at this time. He wants me to be deployed. I am going to step into a higher level of living.”
It does not matter what others think. The Holy Spirit is your Counselor. He will change your attitude and altitude.
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