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Re-program Your Mind For Success In Less Than 5 Minutes A Day

By Mitcell Dahood

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Let's be honest, regardless of the quality of our lives most of us would like them to be better. We've heard about the "Power of Positive Thinking" "The Law of Attraction", "The Secret", etc.

However, in today's society where everyone seems to be struggling to get more done in less time, the ideas in the countless books and articles that are out there, just seem to be a little too much to grasp and apply to our lives.

I am not discounting their value, for I strongly believe in the ideas contained in many of them. However, for most people finding at least twenty minutes a day to properly implement these ideas stops them cold.

It is for this reason that I developed what I call "The down and dirty five minute a day power affirmations routine". In this routine you take advantage of the most powerful time of day to work with affirmations, the half hour before you go to bed.

It is during this time that the subconscious mind is most receptive to receiving new ideas/suggestions for change. The entire routine can be completed in 3-5 minutes.

Before I give you the steps of the routine, I want to be sure you are clear about how to word your affirmations in the most powerful way.

First of all your affirmations should be worded in the present tense. For example:

"I am successful".

NOT

"Someday when I am rich and famous and people like me I will be successful".

Second, be sure to state what you want as opposed to what you don't want. For example:

I love waking up every morning vibrantly healthy and fully energized".

NOT

I'm not sick and sleepy when I wake up.

Finally, they should be filled with as much positive emotion, imagery, and enthusiasm as you can muster. For example:

I love the feeling of the wind blowing through my hair as I drive my new BMW along the sun drenched Pacific Coast Highway".

NOT

"I kind of like it when I drive my BMW".

You get the idea. Now pick at least one and no more than five things you would like to change in your life. Get a clear sense of what each change will look like and feel like. What will making the change mean to you?

After you get clear about the change you want to make, write a positive affirmation for each change. Don't worry about creating "the perfect affirmation". As long as it is positive and worded in the present tense, you are well on your way.

Now that you are armed with your positive and powerful affirmations, I want you to make a committment to your self to follow the routine below for at least thirty days.

First, every night before you go to bed, I want you to take a powerful stance, and with your hand on your heart, and all the positive emotion you can muster, powerfully state your affirmations out loud.

When you have said all of your affirmations, I want you to say one final affirmation. With your left hand clenched I want you to powerfully state, "I am a powerful creator of positive change in my life!" then pump your fist in the air and say "Yes I Am!".

Next write, don't print those same affirmations in a notebook that you will use only for this purpose. Writing is an ideomotor response which automatically puts what you write into your subconscious mind.

Finally, write down and commit to at least one thing you are going to do the next day to move forward toward the life you deserve and desire.

It doesn't have to be a big thing. It can even be a committment to do your power affirmations routine the next night. Small consistant positive steps are the key to your success.

Completing all three steps should take no more than five minutes. I hope you will agree that you are worth at least five minutes of your time to move your life forward in a positive direction. Honestly I hope you think you are worth much more.

If you do nothing else for yourself, do this down and dirty five minute routine for the next 30 days. If you do I know you will be surprised how something so simple can be so powerful.

Here's to affirming your success!

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