Affirmations

Every day I write out my affirmations. These positive statements help me challenge and overcome my self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. Repeating them often reinforces them, helping me be the person I want to be. My affirmations have power to me and have evolved over time. You’ll want to find the ones that speak best to you.

• Pay myself first: Deliberate. Disciplined. Daily
• Be an essentialist: Know Essential. Provide Context
• Be a class act: First Understand. Appreciate
• Calm like water: Be Present. This too shall pass. Work the problem

Pay myself first: Deliberate. Disciplined. Daily

Discipline is being proactive, it’s the path to success.

It’s so easy to lose your discipline. That’s why you need to apply self compassion. As part of your compassion, don’t feel bad, just restart the next day.

Be an essentialist: Know Essential. Provide Context

There are so many choices, you need to choose, spend time finding the essential.

As you do this, begin with the end in mind.

People have no idea what I’m talking about. Think about the story that will make it clear. Practice the story, refine it, repeat till it lands. The best practice to achieve this is to write it out.

Be a class act: First Understand. Appreciate

People want to do their best and are rational. Seek first to understand, and only then be understood.

It takes 7 times to hear something positive about ourselves to make up for 1 negative thought.

Appreciation is also very important because all humans have anxiety and impostor syndrome.

Doing this will strengthen your compassion

And most importantly, turn you into a class act.

Think about the sublime states

Calm like water: Be Present. This too shall pass. Work the problem

Every day can be full of joy, but if you’re not paying attention you’ll miss it. Being present will also let you appreciate others which also brings satisfaction.

There is good, and bad. While we wish the bad will turn into good, we need to remember the good isn’t permanent, it’s just as transient.