uccess With Money
uccess With Money
Your Personal Guide to Achieving Success With Your Money and Your Life
In many articles we discuss the importance of shaping our attitudes (habits of thought) and talk about using affirmations as one of the more effective tools for making changes in our thinking patterns. Here are some basic guidelines for writing affirmations.
First, always write in the first person. Most of the time you will begin with the first person personal pronoun, “I.” The purpose of an affirmation is not to state a truth but to state a personal choice of attitude or behavior. For example, “I pay off the entire balance on my credit card every month.”
Write in simple declarative sentences. Leave out the adjectives and adverbs, certainly the conditional “if”, “may,” or “I would like to.” Spend less time saying it and no time raising doubts about your intentions.
Always use the present tense, “I save ten percent of my income every month.” Probably writing in the present tense is the hardest part for most people. We tend to think that because we are not doing it now it should be written in the future tense.
True, we should only practice using affirmations when we have made a firm commitment to make them true and when we are taking steps to make them happen. But don’t get hung up on the apparent truthfulness of the statement beyond that.
In this case we are using the sentence as a tool to shape our subconscious mind. Just as the hammer is not true or false, this tool isn’t either. But affirmations can help construct a mindset that will move us forward in a powerful way.
Writing affirmations is a skill but using them primarily relates to attitudes. I discuss this in an article in the Attitude section titled, 1st Affirmations (or Basic Money Affirmations).
When written properly, affirmations are a powerful tool. We can use them to change the way we think about money which will in turn change the way we act. When we change the way we act we will change our future.
