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Affirmations are of utmost importance in your morning routine when you spend time on your own. Here are four simple steps for creating and implementing results-oriented affirmations that will reprogram your subconscious mind and upgrade your mindset while directing your conscious mind to upgrade your behavior so that you produce results and take your levels of personal and entrepreneurial success beyond what you’ve ever experienced before.
Step One: The Ideal Result You Are Committed to and Why
Notice I’m not starting with what you want. Everyone wants things, but we don’t get what we want: we get what we’re committed to. You want to be a great entrepreneur? You want to be a millionaire? Who among your peers doesn’t? Oh wait, you’re 100 percent committed to becoming a millionaire by clarifying and executing the necessary actions until the result is achieved? Okay, now we’re talking.
Action: Start by writing down a specific, extraordinary result or outcome—one that challenges you, would significantly improve your 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 stay committed.
Examples: I am committed to doubling my income in the next 12 months, from $_______ to $_______, so that I can provide financial security for my family.
Or …
I am 100 percent committed to losing ____ pounds and weighing ____ pounds by _______ (date) so that I have more energy for actions that take my business to the next level.
Step Two: The Necessary Actions You Are Committed to Taking and When
Writing an affirmation that merely affirms what you want without affirming what you are committed to doing is one step above pointless and can actually be counterproductive by tricking your subconscious mind into thinking that the result will happen automatically and without effort.
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 double my revenue & profit, I am committed to doubling my daily prospecting calls (from 20 to 40 calls) five days a week, between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.—NO MATTER WHAT.
Or …
To ensure that I lose ____ pounds, 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 between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.
The more specific your actions are, the clearer your programming will be so that you consistently take the actions required to move you closer to your goals. 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 with Emotion
Remember, your morning affirmations aren’t designed only to make you feel good. These written statements are strategically engineered to program your subconscious with the 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 for you. You must take responsibility for generating authentic emotions, such as excitement and determination, and powerfully infuse those emotions in every affirmation you recite.
Affirm who you need to be to do the things you need to do so you can have the results 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 brings about the results more than anything else.
Action: Schedule time each day to read your affirmations during your morning routine to 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. 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: an index card under your car’s sun visor, a sticky note on your bathroom mirror. You can even write them directly on a mirror with dry-erase markers. The more you encounter them, the more the subconscious mind can connect with them to change your thinking and your actions.
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 that you want to create for your life, add it to your affirmations. Remember, your affirmations should be tailored to you, what you are personally committed to. They must be specific for them to work on your subconscious.
Your programming can change and improve at any time, starting right now. You can reprogram any perceived limitations with new beliefs and create new behaviors 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 Elevate Yourself as an Entrepreneur
Below is the list of sample affirmations, which are regularly used by top entrepreneurs to increase growth and productivity and to improve in different areas of their business. Feel free to include any of these that resonate with you in your daily routine.
- I am just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving my ideal outcome as any other person on earth, and I will prove that today with my actions.
- Where I am is a result of who I was, but where I go depends entirely on who I choose to be starting today.
- Building my business isn’t about me and what I want. It is about connecting with my customers, my prospects, and my team to find out what’s important to them and then matching my product or opportunity to meet their wants and needs.
- Remember that people buy products or join companies based on emotion and how they feel, so my job isn’t to convince a prospect that they can’t live without my product or that they must come to work in my business today. My intention is to paint a compelling picture (through words and stories) that gets them emotionally engaged in the experience of owning my product and joining my team. I will make it fun and exciting for them to say “yes!”
- I commit to making a minimum of ___ (number) of (action item), Monday through Friday between ___:___ a.m./p.m. and ___:___ a.m./p.m., no matter what.
- I view my team, customers, and prospects as valued friends, and by focusing on how I can selflessly add value to their lives, I am constantly increasing the value I offer them.
- I focus on learning new things and improving my skills daily, and I commit to reading at least one or two new books every month.
- I continue to develop knowledge about my service, and I read industry news weekly to stay ahead of my competition.
- I increase my group volume every month because I am committed to constant and never-ending improvement as well as the action necessary for constant volume growth.
- I dedicate time each week to nurturing my relationships with my customers and team members, and I generate tons of repeat business as a result.
- I am committed to empowering my team with the knowledge and skills that I learn so that they can self-sufficiently attain any level of success that they wish.
These are just a few examples of affirmations. You can use any of these that fell right to you, or create your own affirmations 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, form new beliefs, and manifest itself through your actions. (Excerpt is from “The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs” by Hal Elrod).
