Whilst we often hate to admit it, we all talk to ourselves. More importantly, we all listen too. Used correctly, this ability to talk to yourself and listen to yourself can be very powerful. Psychologists call it affirmation. What it amounts to is this: If you tell yourself something often enough, you will eventually believe it.

Write it, Say it, and Believe it

Listed below are three simple steps that you can use to enable the power of affirmation to work on your weight loss goal so that your mind will naturally and easily make it come true. As you learn each step, apply it to your weight loss goal.

            1.         Write it

If you think your goal is fixed so clearly in your mind that you don’t have to put it on paper, you are only kidding yourself. When you write down your goal, you give it the kind of clarity, focus, and urgency that you cannot give it in any other way.

 If you want to be successful in achieving your goal, whether long term or short term, write it down. If you don’t want to make it come true, then don’t write it down.

 2.         Say it

Having committed your goal to paper, read it out aloud to yourself, with enthusiasm, every morning and every evening. This way you will train your mind to believe in it. As you read out your goal, picture yourself having already achieved it.

 Just as you need to write down your goal to make it come true, you must also reinforce it by saying it out loud twice a day. If you want to achieve any goal(s), whether long term or short term, write them down and say them out loud. If you don’t want to make it come true, then don’t write it down and don’t say it.

 3.         Believe it.

 Why would a gardener take the trouble to plant a seed, water it, fertilize it, and tend it—perhaps for weeks—before seeing any return at all on the effort? Because he believes the seed will grow into something worth the effort. Perhaps it will turn into a flower, or a fruit, or a useful vegetable. Whatever the expected result, the expectation and belief comes before the result. The only gardens we bother to tend are the ones we believe will grow.

 When you create a goal, you have to believe you will succeed, or else what’s the point? By writing your goal down and reading it aloud to yourself every day you will be using the power of  affirmation to reinforce your belief in the achievement of that goal.

If you don’t believe, you won’t be willing to make the effort. With belief comes action. With actions come results. Without belief there is neither action nor results.

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