Affirmations

Affirmations are a form of autosuggestion.

The revered personal development author, Napoleon Hill, in his classic book "Think & Grow Rich", describes autosuggestion as:

"..... all suggestions and all self-administered stimuli which reach one's mind through the five senses. Stated in another way, autosuggestion is self suggestion. It is the agency of communication between that part of the mind where conscious thought takes place, and that which serves as the seat of action for subconscious mind".

Autosuggestion is therefore a term used to describe all the dominating thoughts, but also includes everything that reaches the mind through hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting and smelling - the five senses.

This happens whether we are paying attention to it or not. In other words, some of us are on 'auto-pilot' autosuggestive mode. Through what we see and hear on TV, movies, other people around us, what we read, etc. All of this is suggesting 'stuff' to us. ALL THE TIME. No wonder things happen and some of us wonder what we did to attract them.

Affirmations are therefore what we might call conscious self talk.

Positively affirming something is conscious positive self talk.

Many self help students use positive self talk to help them visualize the outcome of their goals and desires.

The Law of Attraction teaches us that manifesting our intentions is dependent on where our focus is. Positive affirmations help redirect our focus so as to move our actions toward our desired outcome.

If you experience something long enough e.g. when you engage yoursenses in something long enough, you begin to believe it. You begin to believe in it.

Real belief is in our other-than conscious mind, for example the subconscious mind.

The results in our lives right now are the only indication of what we believe. Hard pill to swallow, but the fact is, when we believe differently, we manifest different results.

Positive self talk helps create belief. This state of mind then propels us to act upon our desired results.

Suffice it to say that if one is not taking action, they are fooling themselves.

Affirmations do not replace action, they complement it.

When They Don't Work
As you become more exposed to self improvement, one of the things that may cause you to be stumped is how simple the concepts seem, yet how few people seem to be getting real results.

So what is the problem there?

Let us take this concept of autosuggestion for example. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand how to do an affirmation.

Napoleon Hill, in his book "Think & Grow Rich" continues thus:

"Remember then, when reading the statement of your desire .....that the mere reading is of no consequence -- unless you mix emotion, or feeling with your words. Your subconcious mind recognizes and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling."

Hill goes on to add that this is the main reason the majority of people who try to apply this principle get no desirable results.

Getting Started With Affirmations
People use affirmations to help achieve desired outcomes in various areas, e.g. healthy relationships, self empowerement, manifest money, healthy weight loss, or even self esteem.

Positive self talk to get rid of fears such as fear of success, fear of failure can also be very effective.

According to NLP, we perceive communication in 3 different modalities:

1. Auditory - you learn best through hearing/sound.
2. Visual - what is "seen" is what impacts you the best.
3. Kinesthetic - you learn best by feeling

So, use the modality you think works best for you. You can write them down over and over. Or you can speak them out loud, over and over.

Or you can simply think them silently, over and over.

Whatever the case, do not forget to mentally image - visualize the outcome. As well, you must create an intense emotion as you image it. The feeling should be so intense that it feels like the pleasurable tingling feeling you might experience when you are in a moment of pure joy.

Remember to set aside a certain time of day, at leat twice a day, to do your affirmations. Repeat them over and over. There really isn't a hard and fast rule as to how many times you should repeat them. 10 times is good. 100 times is excellent.

What matters isn't really how many times you repeat them, but how much you "feel" the emotion of the outcome.

Some Positive Affirmations That Work
Remember affirmations are stated ONLY in the present tense. "I AM" is the strongest form of affirmation. Avoid saying "I am" in the negative, and that alone will help curtail some of the catastrophes you might be attracting by affirming how "negative" we are.
For example, constantly saying "I am sick and tired of ......." is a disaster waiting to happen.

A Few Good Ones

• I am prosperous.
  
• I am rich.
  
• I am wealthy
  
• I have a large, steady, dependable, permanent financial income now.
  
• All that I need is within me now
  
• I am healthy, whole, energetic and vibrant.
  
• I now look healthy and beautiful.
  
• I am successful.
  
• I am joyful.
  
• I am so happy and grateful now that _____________.

Inspirational Quote

"It is useless to affirm benefits, protection, supply, guidance,and healing, if all the time you are doing things which you know are not right."
Catherine Ponder, Author

Famous Zig Ziglar Quotes

Motivational Speaker Zig Ziglar And Some Famous Zig Ziglar Quotes

Zig Ziglar is one of those motivational speakers that gives us self improvement students more than just wise words. He's witty, interesting, charismatic and has a voice that, like other charismatic motivational speakers such as Jim Rohn, you just don't want him to stop talking.

Powerful Zig Ziglar Quotes
The following motivational phrases by Zig Ziglar will give you a feel of the posturing of this professional motivational speaker.

"It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude."

"Keep thinking right and your business will be right."

"Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

"Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours."

"There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy."

"The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts,but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account'."

"You can disagree without being disagreeable."

"Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

"The greatest single cause of a poor self image is the absence of unconditional love."

"Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind."

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

"You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself."

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

"Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side."

"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."

Zig Ziglar Bio The leading personal development website, Nightingale-Conant describes Zig Zigler this way:

"..... He's the one and only Zig Ziglar, and his name is synonymous with confidence, motivation and success.

A master at motivational speaking, Mr. Ziglar has been featured in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Fortune, Success and Esquire magazines, and has appeared on the Today show, 20/20, 60 minutes and The Phil Donahue show.

He has that rare ability to make audiences comfortable and relaxed, yet completely attentive. As an author, he has written nine books, including the perennial best-selling seller, See You At The Top, with over two million copies in print. And as a concerned citizen,

Mr. Ziglar has been recognized in the Congressional Record of the United States for his many contributions to the American way of life."
excerpt from nightingale.com

More Quotes by Zig Ziglar
"Some people find fault like there is reward for it."
"It's not what you know, it's what you use that makes the difference."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite at you."

"You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there."

"You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it is seldom easy."

"The more we express gratitude for what we have, the more we will have to express gratitude for."

"You cannot make it as a wandering generality, you must become a meaningful specific."

It's an Asset, Not a Job

Network Marketing - It's an Asset, Not a Job
By Robert Kiyosaki

I am sometimes asked, "Why do so few people make it to the top of their network marketing system?" The truth is, the top of the network marketing system is open to everyone-unlike traditional corporate systems, which allow only one person to reach the top of the company.The reason most people do not reach the top is simply because they quit too soon.

So why would someone quit short of the top? Most people join only to make money. If they don't make money in the first few months or years, they become discouraged and quit (and then often bad-mouth the industry!). Others quit and go looking for a company with a better compensation plan.

But joining to make a few quick dollars is not the reason to get into the business. The Two Essential Reasons to Join a Network Marketing Business:

Reason number one is to help yourself. Reason number two is to help others.

If you join for only one of these two reasons, then the system will not work for you. Reason number one, means that you come to the business primarily to change quadrants-to change from the E (Employee) or the S (Self-employed) quadrant to the B (Business owner) or I (Investor) quadrant. This change is normally very difficult for most people because of money. The true E or S quadrant person will not work unless it is for money.This is also what causes people to not reach the top of the network marketing system: they want money more than they want to change quadrants.

A B quadrant or I quadrant person will also work for money, but in a different way. The B quadrant person works to build or create an asset-in this case, a business system. The I quadrant person invests in the asset or the system. The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you do not really make much money unless you help others leave the E and S quadrants and succeed in the B and I quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business.

As a B or an I, sometimes you don't get paid for years; this,a true E quadrant or S quadrant person will not do. It's not part of their core values. Risk and delayed gratification disturb them emotionally.

Delayed Gratification and Emotional Intelligence: One of the beauties of network marketing is that it focuses on developing your emotional intelligence as well as your business skills.

Emotional intelligence is an entirely different matter from academic intelligence. In general, someone with high emotional intelligence will often do better than someone with high academic intelligence but low emotional intelligence. That explains, in part, why some people do well in school but not so well in the real world. The ability to delay gratification is a sign of higher emotional intelligence. In a recent study of emotional intelligence, it was found that people who could delay gratification often led more successful lives than those who could not. This is why the educational system inherent in a good network marketing opportunity is so important. It's the emotional education or emotional intelligence aspect of their programs that I find so valuable for people.

Many people write me and tell me they loved my book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, but I fear that many of them don't get the most important point of the book: Lesson #1, "The rich don't work for money."

Once I have built or bought an asset, that asset works hard to make money for me. But I will not work for money-I will work only to build or buy assets. Those assets make me richer and richer, while I work less and less. That is what the rich do. The poor and middle class work hard for money, and then buy liabilities instead of investing in assets.

What Kind of Asset is a Network Marketing Business? Remember, there are two reasons required to be successful in network marketing: to help yourself, and to help others. Reason number one means helping yourself get to the B side of the quadrant.

What about reason number two? The beauty of most network marketing systems is that you don't really make much money unless you help others leave the E and S quadrants and succeed in the B and I quadrants. If you focus on helping others make this shift, then you will be successful in the business, If you only want to teach yourself to be a B quadrant and I quadrant person, then a true network marketing system won't work for you. You may as well go to a traditional business school, which focuses only on your becoming a B quadrant person.

The beauty of a network marketing business is that your goal is to create assets, which are other B's working under you-and their job is to create other B's working under them. In traditional business, the focus is for the B to have only E's and S's working for them.

The type of business I was taught to build is a business with me at the top and E's and S's at the base. I really don't have room at the top for many other B's, which is why in my businesses, I strongly recommend that all my employees look into network marketing as their own part-time businesses. The traditional corporate system really is a pyramid, because there are a few B's and I's near the top, and more E's and S's at the base.

A network marketing system is a reverse pyramid: its primary focus is to bring up more and more B's to the top. One type of pyramid, the traditional type, has its base on the ground; the other type has its base in the air. It's a pyramid that pulls you up instead of pushing you down.A network marketing business gives everyone access to what used to be the domain only of the rich.

This passage is excerpted by permission from The Business School for People Who Like Helping People, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, with Sharon Lechter, CPA, authors of Rich Dad, Poor Dad.