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Here are simple steps to create and implement results-oriented Miracle Morning affirmations that will program your conscious and subconscious mind to produce results and take your levels of personal and parenting success beyond what you’ve ever experienced before.
“The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love and support each other.” – Zig Ziglar
Step One: The Extraordinary Result You Are Committed to and Why
Everyone desires things, but we don’t attain our desires; we attain what we’re dedicated to. Do you aspire to be an exemplary role model for your children? Of course, that’s a common goal. However, are you fully dedicated to the process of transforming this aspiration into reality? Are you committed to defining and diligently following the required steps until you achieve the desired outcome?
Action: Start by writing down a specific, extraordinary result or outcome—one that challenges you and would significantly improve your family life and one that you are ready to commit to creating even if you’re not yet sure how you will do it. Then reinforce your commitment by including your why, the compelling reason you’re willing to commit.
Examples: I am 100 percent committed to being as healthy as I can be so that I have the energy to be fully present with my children and spouse.
Or …
I am committed to doubling my income in the next 12 months, from $_______ to $_______, so that I can provide financial security for my family.
Step Two: The Necessary Actions You Are Committed to Taking and When
Creating an affirmation that only states your desires without acknowledging your commitment to action is almost useless. In fact, it could backfire by deceiving your subconscious into expecting effortless results.
Action: Clarify the (specific) action, activity, or habit that is required for you to achieve your ideal outcome, and clearly state when and how often you will execute the necessary action.
Examples: To ensure that I am as healthy as I can be, I am 100 percent committed to going to the gym five days per week and running on the treadmill for a minimum of 20 minutes each day from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Or …
To guarantee that I double my income, I am committed to doubling my daily prospecting calls from 20 to 40 calls five days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.—NO MATTER WHAT.
The more specific your actions are, the better. Be sure to include frequency (how often), quantity (how many), and precise time frames (when you will begin and end your activities).
Step Three: Recite Your Affirmations Every Morning with Emotion
Remember, your Miracle Morning affirmations aren’t designed merely to make you feel good. These written statements are strategically engineered to program your subconscious mind with the beliefs and mindset you need to achieve your desired outcomes while directing your conscious mind to keep you focused on your highest priorities and taking the actions that will get you there.
For your affirmations to be effective, however, it is important that you tap into your emotions while reciting them. Mindlessly repeating an affirmation without intentionally feeling its truth will have minimal impact on you. You must take responsibility for generating authentic emotions, such as excitement and determination, and powerfully infuse those emotions in every affirmation you recite.
You must affirm who you need to be to do the things you need to do so that you can have the results that you want. I’ll say this again: It isn’t magic; this strategy works when you connect with the person you need to become on the way to achieving your goals. It’s who you are that attracts your results more than any other activity.
Action: Schedule time each day to read your affirmations during your Miracle Morning to both program your subconscious and focus your conscious mind on what’s most important to you and what you are committed to doing to make it your reality. That’s right, you must read them daily. Reading your affirmation occasionally is as effective as an occasional workout. You’ll start seeing results only when you’ve made them a part of your daily routine.
A great place to read affirmations is in the shower. If you laminate them and leave them there, then they will be in front of you every day. Put them anywhere you can to remind you: under your car’s sun visor, taped to your mirror. The more you see them, the more the subconscious mind can connect with them to change your thinking and your actions. You can even write them directly on a mirror with dry-erase markers.
Step Four: Constantly Update and Evolve Your Affirmations
As you continue to grow, improve, and evolve, so should your affirmations. When you come up with a new goal, dream, or any extraordinary result you want to create for your life, add it to your affirmations. Remember, your affirmations should be tailored to you. They must be specific for them to work in your subconscious. As soon as you put the word “we” into an affirmation, it gives your mind permission to blame someone else if it does not come to fruition.
Your programming can change and improve at any time, starting right now. You can reprogram any perceived limitations with new beliefs and create new behaviours so you can become as successful as you want to be in any area of life you choose.
In summary, your new affirmations articulate the extraordinary results you are committed to creating, why they are critically important to you, and, most importantly, which necessary actions you are committed to taking and when to ensure that you attain and sustain the extraordinary levels of success you truly want (and deserve) for your life.
Affirmations to Become an Exceptional Parent
In addition to the formula to create your affirmations, here is the list of sample affirmations, which may help spark your creativity. Feel free to include any of these that resonate with you.
- I am fully committed to protecting 30 minutes of my time daily for each of my children so they know they are important to me.
- I am fully committed to providing five healthy dinners a week for my family because I know my kids will pick up my eating habits, and I want them to have the healthiest start in life.
- I am absolutely committed to waking up at ______ every morning with the intention of getting my Miracle Morning in before the kids wake up so I can fill my cup in order to serve them when they wake.
- I focus on learning new things and improving my parenting skills daily, and I commit to reading or rereading at least one new book to help that effort every month.
- I continue to get to know my children by spending time with them and truly listening to them and their friends so that I will know when I need to take action and what type of action is necessary.
- I am committed to constant and never-ending improvement in the tasks necessary for the day-to-day functioning of my family.
- I commit to an unplugged family meal five nights a week so that we can strengthen our family as a group and stay connected to each other.
- I am committed to empowering my children with the knowledge and skills that I learn so that they can self-sufficiently attain any level of success that they wish in life.
- I am committed to learning from my children and being open to the lessons they have to teach me, including their visions of what they want to be not what I want them to be.
- I am committed to reading for 20 minutes with each of my children every day.
These are just a few examples of affirmations. You can use any that resonate with you, but do create your own using the four-step formula described above. Anything you repeat to yourself over and over again with emotion will be programmed into your subconscious mind, help you form new beliefs, and manifest through your actions. (Excerpt is from “The Miracle Morning for Parents and Families” by Hal Elrod.)
