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Today I’d like to share a personal story with you – my personal story of how I have used positive affirmations throughout my life, and indeed, how they have took over my life in many areas and many different ways.
Before I get started, let me make sure you know what affirmations are.
To summarize, all positive affirmations are, are simple statements which you repeat to yourself over and over again. These statements are short, usually in the present tense, and ALWAYS positive!
Here are a some examples of positive affirmations for weight loss for example:
- I am losing weight naturally.
- I am slim, healthy and at my ideal weight.
- I exercise regularly and eat a healthy balanced diet.
- I love eating healthily, exercising and living an active lifestyle.
The way that affirmations work is that the more you say the positive statements to yourself the better.
The more you say them the more they sink into your subconscious mind, and the more you start to believe them. This is where the magic happens as belief is 99% of the truth – if you believe you are confident for example then this is all there is to it really right?
The magic happens with belief – when you start to believe them, they start to become true, reality, a real part of who you are – you live and breathe them and they do transform you and help you to reach your goals.
Anyway.. My Story:
My name is Thomas Allan, I am still on the positive side of 50 
and I have used positive affirmations for over 20 years. In-fact I have used them almost constantly, at times really taking over my life and infiltrating my pursuits in a huge way.. but this I see as a good thing, they provided massive transformation for me in a positive way and helped me to pursue many personal goals to accomplishment.
It all started when I used affirmations to improve my confidence – one minute I was a shy 17 year old, unable to make friends easily, and definitely unable to talk to girls…
Even just a few days after starting with affirmations I started to see the difference in my inner thoughts, how I thought about myself, my positivity and my basic levels of happiness and self esteem.
Then over the next few weeks it all changed and I was hooked for a lifetime on affirmations 
I became massively more outgoing, I could actually feel things clicking into place within my mind and my outward behaviour changing. I made new friends much easier, I started going to parties, and I chatted to some girls.
But this was just the beginning!
For the next 20+ years I have started my day without fail by saying my positive affirmations for 5 minutes. I also finish my day by saying them into the bathroom mirror every evening, and I have never missed a day!
I have used affirmations for everything imaginable! They have helped me to slim down and to take regular exercise, then pushed me to excel in running and in sports, I have used them in my personal hobbies, to pick myself up when I was feeling frustrated and down, to help my mindset in running my businesses and real estate properties, and to enhance my relationships and love life.
I’m now in early retirement after spending 20 years running multiple businesses, investing in land and real estate – I still keep myself busy with some personal projects and business interests, and of course, still my affirmations – throughout all the changes of my life, all the downs and many ups, affirmations have been my constant and my biggest ally.
I hope this article inspires some people, and gets people interested and started on a life long journey with affirmations too
Twitter: esther96
Well done to you, Thomas. I love the fact that you’ve used positive affirmations for so long. Many people use them for a season, then quit – whether they work or not.
You’ve actually shown a lot of determination to carry on. I really admire this. I run a self-confidence site and this is one of the main things I teach there.
Good on you!
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Thanks Esther, and you’re right, I think confidence is the backbone of everything, and all you need a lot of the time
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Hi there, I like your story, but what do you do when you have doubts. I am very interested in affirmations but have often doubts and do not know how to deal with this. Can you give me any advice please as I am in bad situation and would like to use affirmations to get my life on truck.
Twitter: esther96
To answer your question, I’ve written about the subject on my Build Confidence site. The post is called, ‘Caught In A Self-Doubt Trap’ I’d put the link here, but I don’t want to get flagged for a spammer – which I’m not. Just click through to my site and search for the post.
Actually, I’ll try to link to the direct post in my comment luv link below.
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That’s really impressive Thomas,you have used positive affirmations for over 20 years,and have gained a lot through it.
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Good Post, and Congrats on your victory. I am with you that do this is important in building up your self-belief. I used below success pledge to encourage myself towards my goal :
“Today is a new day, a new beginning. It has been given to me as a new gift. I can either use it or throw it away. What I do today will affect me tomorrow. I cannot blame anyonebut myself if I do not succeed. I promise to use this day to the fullest by giving by best,realizing it can never come back again. This is my life and I choose to make it a success.”
Thought I share.
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Wow, thanks, and I really like your success pledge to yourself! We are looking for people to share their affirmations on our site you know and I would LOVE to see a submission from you if you are interested, can see you have a nice writing style which could help people.
http://www.freeaffirmations.org/submit-your-affirmations
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Great article Thomas!!
Inspiring indeed! I myself am a big advocate of positive affirmations. Positive thinking and affirmations, as well, can help you develop a positive and powerful attitude to life. My question is how quickly this way of approaching things could work and change one’s life… Maybe I ‘m a little impatient:-)
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks Nick, It depends really I think, some simple things like a quick confidence booster or something to make you feel better or happier I know can be instant, but other things can take time for sure – a pessimist would say Im still using them after 20 years, so they take 20 years to work… but I don’t see it like that, I think, know, that they have worked all along and had growing effects on me too.
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Magical story, Thomas.
Self belief is a powerful force indeed.
My experience is there can be a down side to just affirmations though. In your example of weight loss, I’ve known some people to say they’re using affirmations and repeat the same mental affirmation.
Thing is, they fail to combine this with motivation and action. Without conscious movement to a goal, it’s just a chant to these people.
That said, confidence and the will to be confident, affirmations really can work.
Thoughts on the weight loss comment?
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Your story was very intersting Thomas! I have heard about possitive affirmations before, but your story really got me thinking. I believe that each one of us, have his own way to apply possitive affirmations every day, but with different forms and most of the times subconsciously! I agree that sometimes we must force ourselfs to believe something, in order to suceed, and that’s where the possitive affirmations are needed!
Thank you for sharing your experience!
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Yes, often when we start out it seems impossible, but just suspend your disbelief, get started and move towards your goals and they do come, one step at a time
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What an inspiration. I’m glad to see that they are working out so well for you and I think this could benefit a lot of folks if they would just give it a try. There’s absolutely nothing bad that can come out of positive affirmations and you’re living proof of that. Good job, Thomas!
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Definitely
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Thanks for the article, Thomas! I used to use affirmations, but had forgotten about them in recent months.
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Dust them off Marie.. and send them to me! – I’d love some from you on leadership
http://www.freeaffirmations.org/submit-your-affirmations
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I’d imagine part of this is not only saying these positive affirmations over and over, but also taking some time to envision yourself doing these things or embodying these ideas. Then, your mind can’t just say “oh, I’m saying these things to myself but they’re not true.” If you see yourself doing them then they will start to become true, and will impact the way you act and behave.
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Yes, definitely, the visualization aspect is probably another aspect altogether, but yes, it is important – when we visualize it tricks the mind into thinking it is real and this goes really well with positive affirmations as it is like it is already true – and naturally affirmations stimulate you to visualize like this
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20 years is pretty impressive. I have just started saying 4 positive affirmations every day. I say them on the way to and from work, during the day and sometimes I even type them out when I have a few spare minutes at work. I also try to say them first thing in the morning when I wake up and just before I go to sleep at night.
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Sounds good Jan, this is all you, need, great way to get started
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I have been saying this for a long time “you are what you say you are” and affirmations like Thomas said is well needed. We as human have a great God given power called “words” and when use words (positive) then the later is a positive outcome. In weight loss positive affirmations are great not only to make you feel good but also to change the way you think about yourself.
Exercise+ Affirmation +Motivation= Weight loss motivation
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I think it is working diffrently. Not like “you are what you say you are” but “you are what your brain think you are”. So what you say about it can change your programming and if it change, then you can say “I’m who I say I’m”.
Affirmations can go into your inner mind only if you know how to deliver them properly.
Thanks for post and comments
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Interesting thoughts, however, it’s one reason that I decided to write 3 different types of affirmations on my site – as “properly” for you just might not be so for someone else.. and in my opinion it can more matter that the affirmations are in your personal style of talking and that they are positive TO YOU.
Twitter: AffirmPositive
Yes, they can be fantastic for weight loss – really give a lot of support to your efforts and give you a helping hand
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Yes, it’s much better to say good things to ourselves instead of negative things. I think it’s so easy to affirm negative things to ourselves, and people accept it as a way of life; but people take positive affirmations as a new age/weird things to do…when all it is, is NOT saying negative things to yourself anymore!
Good article. Needs to be shared!
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Well hello, in my opinion I think that positive affirmation can be good for those people that really want to better themselves and it can be a bad thing for someone that is too lazy to put in the work to better self, you know some people will fool themselves by saying positive things over and over again until they start believing the lie, like someone that don’t have the type of health that they should and they know it can be better, they will just keep saying I’m doing good , I’m healthy enough when deep down they know that is not true.
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Isn’t changing your mindset to see to be positive and positive affirmations the same thing? I like your ” positive side of 50″ and “chatting with girls” statements
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That’s the exact same way I lost my 10 pounds in a month. Yup that was a huge accomplishment and I’m still proud of it. Gonna try it on my work and see how it goes. Thanks for the reminder Thomas.
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Self belief is a powerful force indeed.
My experience is there can be a down side to just affirmations though. In your example of weight loss, I’ve known some people to say they’re using affirmations and repeat the same mental affirmation.
Twitter: donmanualcom
I also do believe that positive affirmations can change one’s life. It always helps me even with illnesses, because I know all the illnesses are psycosomatic.
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Nice article with an apt picture. The exercise, yoga and meditation can help one tremendously to give their best at whatever they do and to live the life with the bubbling attitude.
It’s amazing and hard to believe that our minds are so powerful they can influence our lives in such a groundbreaking way.
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that’s a great story Thomas. I’ve got much inspiration from your story.
I know that positive affirmation give great impact in life. It’s like programming our mind to success. I have tried positive affirmation and it gives awesome result for my life. But sometimes i don’t do it regularly. After read your story, i promise that i will do positive affirmation regularly. Your success is inspiring me..
thanks thomas for sharing your inspirational story
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I really believe that “life and death is in the power of your tongue”. Believe in yourself and continuous declaration will make things happen.
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Great and inspirational story. I’m a firm believer in mind over matter and thinking positively can only be good for everyone
Hi Thomas, thank you for writing about positive affirmation. I read about this in the book Influence by Cialdini, can recommend it if you haven’t read it already.
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