The one thing I've learned having worked with children quite often over the past 10 years is that they have no ceiling on their dreams. They dream and they dream big and they aren't afraid to tell anyone! I LOVE it! I wish I could be more like that.
So yesterday, I did something very uncharacteristic of me. I acted like a big kid! I got up on the bathroom sink countertop and realized that I'm too tall to stand so I'll have to sit. The night before I had written down ten affirmations. These affirmations are things that I want to grow up to be or grow up to accomplish or things I am accomplishing right now. I say "grow" because in order to accomplish these goals, I'll have to grow in some areas that I've always wanted to blossom in. I looked into the future but wrote them down in the present tense. So yesterday I sat on the countertop and said my affirmations out loud, staring myself straight in the eyes...and I started to cry. It was tears of joy! I had finally reached a turning point and I am not turning back!
I have been told about affirmations for almost 4 years now. Affirmations are a big thing in Mary Kay and I always thought they were a little silly. However, I could never look myself in the mirror and say an affirmation either. Silly or not, I couldn't muster up the courage to do it. Truth be told, it isn't silly; it's intimidating...to someone like me. Not only was I afraid of being successful, I was afraid of telling myself I was successful and acting like I was successful.
The reason affirmations have moved to the forefront of my mind is because I have been on some conference calls with successful people that basically said, you HAVE to do this in order to be successful. Then my Director gave me a CD called the Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale. I have listened to it a lot over the past few weeks and it has been very motivating!
Basically the gist of the Strangest Secret is 5 out of every 100 people will be "successful" so how do you become one of those 5? You have to have a goal or purpose in mind that you are working towards daily. Then you have to write it down and think positively about it. We are suffocated by so much negativity these days that having a positive attitude about something is hard. However, what you think about you bring about. So if you are thinking negative thoughts, you will have a negative outcome.
I have the habit of thinking positive thoughts and then thinking a million other negative thoughts right afterwards, which basically voids out the positive thought. William Shakespeare wrote: "Our doubts are traitors, and make use lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." And the Bible states "As ye sew, so shall ye reap."
If you have a goal in life to be successful, whether it's at your job, as a parent or child, in your community or church, stand (or sit) on the countertop and look in the mirror and plant a seed of success with positive thoughts every day!
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