Affirmation is a scam

Beware

Compliments of the season, I pray this year brings much of our desired achievements. 

I was never the affirmation type, affirmation is a scam to me. On the second day of this year, I was going through my WhatsApp status, I have been expecting a video from one of the influencers I follow. Ibukun Akinkuotu is known as POSH. It's a video about goal setting and how seeing them daily affects the way we work towards them or achieves them.

I was surprised when I saw "AFFIRMATIONS" on her 2023 goals board, and that was how my day started on the 2nd of January 2023. 

I started reading a personal development book that same day, titled "Beyond Positive Thinking" by Dr. Robert Antony.

I came across this line "we can only achieve what our mind is capable of accepting". 

The line felt personal to me when I told my mentor, everything I am seeing and reading today is talking about affirmation. Even at this point, I still find it hard to accept to myself that the reason I don't achieve something is that see myself accepting them. 

A friend came by to visit my mentor and he asked if I have any courses giving me problems in school, and that is PHY and MTH. I said physics.

He asked, what do you see physics as, without any further thought I answered " physics is a hard course, it's even boring to read."

He replied, that is where the problem lies, physics will never cease to give you problems until you see it as something you can do with seeing, start to accept can understand it like your other courses that you only need to go the extra mile for it.

At this point, everything felt real, from POSH, THE BOOK, and now what he said. I was able to admit that I need to work on what I accept and affirm to myself. 

"The mind power over the body, tongue, and actions - Mhisty"

It's funny how I did not even think before replying to him that physics is a difficult course and that is because it is what I see and believes it to be. 

The method he gave me worked, and since I changed my mindset about the course, it has been getting better and it can only get better. 

I applied this to my MTH too and to my life, every day I wake up with two affirmations that I read out thrice after praying. 

Today,

I affirm that :

I am excellently unique in all that I do

The people around me are blessings to me

Affirmations are not scams, what we accept ourselves to influence is what we do, what we say, and how we do things even without us noticing. That is the reason you keep getting the same result about something because of your perspective and belief about the thing I've changed. Be positive in your thought and affirm great things to yourself.

Your Amazing Girl

Misturah Shittu.