The document discusses how to create powerful affirmations to change one's thoughts and life. It recommends using the present tense, keeping affirmations positive, avoiding problems, including powerful emotions, and keeping affirmations short. Tips are provided on how to use affirmations daily and examples of effective affirmations are given.

1. How To Create
Powerful
AFFIRMATIONS
“Change your thoughts, change your life.”

2. What are affirmations?
Affirmations are powerful statements of self-talk that
help you create the successful life you most desire.

3. Why use affirmations?
• If you change your thoughts you’ll change your
life
• The chatter in our head is mostly negative
• Affirmations allow you to replace negative chatter
with positive thoughts

4. How to create affirmations
• There is a right way to create affirmations
• To create powerful, life-altering, success-
attracting affirmations employ the following tips.

5. Tip #1 Present Tense
• Always use the present tense
• Don’t use future tense, “I will be fearless…”
• Use the present tense, “I am fearless,
determined, powerful, and unstoppable!”

6. Tip #2 Keep It Positive
• Avoid the negative, “I will lose 10 pounds…”
• Keep it positive, “I am healthy, slim, and full of
energy!”

7. Tip #3 Avoid The Problem
• Don’t say, “I am no longer fearful…”
• Your brain just hears the word “fearful”
• Avoid the problem, “I am courageous, confident,
and powerful.”

8. Tip #4 Include Powerful
Emotions
• Don’t create affirmations that are bland and dull,
“I am productive.”
• Stir your emotions, “I am constantly, consistently,
always doing THE most productive thing possible
at any given moment!”

9. Tip #5 Keep ‘em Short
• Don’t create long affirmations that you can’t
remember
• Keep them short and memorable, “I live, work,
and play with enthusiasm.”

10. How To Use
Affirmations
• Say them out loud every morning
• Write them out in long-hand daily
• Read over them before going to sleep
• Make a slide show with favorite images
• Create a recording that you can listen to
• Create wall posters of your favorites

11. Here’s My Favorites
“Today is a super-terrific day full of
wonderful opportunities”

12. Here’s My Favorites
“I am positive at all times. I focus my energy
on positive thoughts and actions”

13. Here’s My Favorites
“I can achieve anything I want. I believe
without a doubt that I will succeed”

14. Here’s My Favorites
“I live my dreams now. I pursue my dreams
and desires every day”

15. Here’s My Favorites
“I continually establish habits of success. I
practice good habits and positive behaviors
that guarantee my success.”

16. Here’s My Favorites
“I am happy, optimistic, and upbeat. People
enjoy being around me.”

17. Here’s My Favorites
“I take powerful action each day to achieve
quantum leaps of success”

18. Here’s My Favorites
“I keep positive, fun, exciting, and productive
thoughts in my mind at all times.”

19. Here’s My Favorites
“I visualize what I want to be and act as if I
already am what I visualize.”

20. Here’s My Favorites
“I am constantly sharpening my skills and
become more powerful, productive, and
successful each and every day.”

21. Here’s My Favorites
“I eat right and exercise regularly to keep my
body healthy, fit, and trim, AND to create
personal power in my life.”

22. Here’s My Favorites
“I easily attract wealth into my life and have
massive financial abundance... Because I
deserve it!”

23. Here’s My Favorites
“I think about what I can do NOW. By
thinking small, I accomplish great things”

24. Here’s My Favorites
“I am totally worthy of happiness,
abundance, prosperity, and all good things”

25. Here’s My Favorites
“Life is so easy, life is so good, all good
things come to me”

26. Here’s My Favorites
“I am passionately doing what it takes to
achieve anything I want”

27. From My Friends in the
#LeadWithGiants Community
“Every day and every way, I am becoming
more successful” - Adam McGinnis

28. From My Friends in the
#LeadWithGiants Community
“I am becoming more healthy and
successful each day” - Ron McIntyre

29. From My Friends in the
#LeadWithGiants Community
“I believe in you” - Bob Vanourek
While not exactly affirmations, these are great
words…
“Never settle with mere words what I
should’ve solved with sound leadership and
personal example.” - Fred Aubin
“Nothing is impossible” - Anthony Vengrove

30. Now It’s Your Turn
Share your favorite affirmation with me here
and on twitter at @DanVForbes

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Community
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