42 Positive Affirmations for Entrepreneurs. Affirmations, huh?
Once a skeptic, now a believer. A few years ago, I was a serious corporate gal who would poke fun at anything that could not be proven for a fact. Affirmations were the last thing I could take seriously, and yet, funny enough, affirmations and the subsequent changes in mindset and thinking created the conditions for my transition from corporate to entrepreneurship. Positive affirmations were the seeds that enabled me to land my dream company and online businesses and partnership with my husband. Specifically, I can attribute the following to learning and using positive affirmations in my life: Healing from my past mistakes.Accepting myself for who I am.Forgiving myself for past failures.Letting go of a 12-years success career that was all wrong for me.Learning to start over in a new direction.Believing in my own eventual success.Discovering my life purpose in the process.Overcoming my fears to move in the direction of my dreams.
Well, here’s the thing. Got it? 13 Simple Things You Can Do To Make Your Life Extraordinary. Have you ever noticed how some people seem to get ahead in life easily and effortlessly no matter what is going on around them?
These people are amazing entrepreneurs, artists, innovators, leaders and even motivators. What is more interesting is that they are often not the most talented, hard working or smart people around. Yet, somehow, they achieve much more than the rest of us. What is it that makes their life so extraordinary? How can someone’s life even be extraordinary all the time? Khalil Gibran says, “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” Do You Have a Growth Mindset? - John Hagel III and John Seely Brown. By John Hagel III and John Seely Brown | 10:29 AM November 23, 2010 Mindset is everything.
If that statement seems too strong, consider that we bring these basic assumptions to every decision and action we make. Left unexamined, they may unnecessarily restrict us or lead us in the wrong direction altogether. Perception may not truly be reality, but when it comes to how we approach challenges and opportunities, mindset determines the world we encounter and possibilities we apprehend. Achieving the power of pull requires us to make our assumptions explicit and examine them in different contexts — testing, challenging and refining. As we began to discuss in our last post, adapting to the Big Shift and harnessing the potential of pull requires embracing a new mindset. In her 2006 book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Stanford Professor Carol Dweck distinguishes two extremes of the mindsets people tend to have about their basic qualities:
Leave Problems at the Office with the “Walk in the Door" Rule. 7 Empowering Affirmations That Will Help You Be Mentally Strong. Mentally strong people weren’t born that way.
They probably used to doubt themselves just like you. To develop confidence in yourself, remember these affirmations that will help you be mentally strong. 1. “Nothing can break me.” Mentally strong people don’t allow any negative event to destroy them emotionally. The Positive Power of Negative Thinking. Fogg Method. Field Guide to The Self-Doubter: Extra Credit. Rosalyn Lang has a Ph.D. in molecular biology, has just completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University, and recently launched her own consulting firm. In other words, she's a walking advertisement for what it takes to be successful in science: smarts, opportunity, and perseverance. Yet when she looks back, she takes little credit for her successes. "I felt inadequate the entire time I was in graduate school. If I got a nice compliment, I just felt, 'What? They're trying to pull my leg!
One of just two women recruited to her graduate program in the department of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami, Lang was also a Florida Scholar—an honor that funded her entire graduate education. Lang now realizes she wasn't really an impostor. When it comes to personal happiness, Rosalyn Lang was in a no-win situation. What might explain the yawning gap between these women's self-assessments and the judgments of everyone around them? Susan Pinker is a PT blogger.