Many people will be looking forward for drastic changes in their lives and the time will not just allow. Maybe you are one among them and wondering how to lead your life in a better way. There are many challenges that come along with self improvement and knowing these challenges is a good step in the right direction.

Some people may have a passion for business and are hoping to be successful but these two alone does not guarantee you to live your life fully, to change you life, or genuinely to be happy. To succeed financially is not a guarantee to create a feting life; this only brings poverty of the soul. Self growth is not measured on the amount of money or material things one has, but rather it is measured in terms of the quality of life or how happy an individual is at the long run.

To succeed in life an entrepreneur is required to have a right mindset. This is an important thing that all aspiring entrepreneurs should posses. If only your mindset is focused on success, all that you have been dreaming for will come to fruition.

There are a wide variety of resources that you can refer to so as to improve yourself. Such resources include self help books and information from the internet. They will help you have the know-how of hitting your targets and making quick accomplishments more easily in regard to wealth and general life. The greatest fear of life is fear.

Some of the self help books will help you learn on how to achieve your goals and ambitions and guide you on the simple techniques in your everyday life. You discover how to meet your targets and accomplish your highest potentials and more so you will think like somebody has already acquired wealth and success. People don’t succeed because there is a fear holding them back therefore these books are use in getting rid of this fear.

The reason why people do not succeed is that there is a fear holding them back and that is the reason why these books are available just to make you think positively about everything. You will unlock the potential of your mind and translate your dreams into reality. For you to succeed in life you have to be confident on everything you are doing and realize that there is no limitation on what you are about to do.

A lot of people claim that they experience positive changes in their lives after they started practicing self affirmations. That whatever they affirm for really becomes a reality. Sounds good, but the problem is there are many others who say the opposite! Many say that affirmations don’t work and they don’t see any results from it.

Why is this so? How come some people experience success with it while others don’t?

Before we get into that, let us know what self affirmation is first. Doing self affirmations means to repetitively affirm to yourself the thing that you desire to have or achieve. It is done by just saying out the affirmation repeatedly. Somewhat similar to reciting or chanting. Self affirmations can be done for anything you desire.

Have a look at this example of a positive self affirmation;

- “Everyday in every way I am getting healthier and healthier”

Just a simple statement like that is fine. Or lose the “everyday in every way”. Just go something like “I am becoming…….”.

Affirmations are made with statements ‘I am’, ‘I can’ and ‘I will’. Like “I am confident” or “I can be confident” etc.

What Makes Affirmations Work?

Self affirmations works because of the power of intention. Even though affirmations seem like is it just talk and no action, there is actually more to it. Practicing affirmations signals your intention to the universe. When you do that the universe will conspire to help you.

Our brains cannot differentiate between reality and something that is imagined vividly. Intellectually we know the difference, but the brain accepts both as reality. The more intense and real the imagination, the more the brain will accept it as real. This is the same when doing affirmations. The more intensity and emotion you put into it, the stronger the affirmation becomes. Then the brain will then accept that affirmation as reality.

The more you repeatedly chant the affirmations, the more ‘real’ it becomes to the brain.

If that is so, why does it not work for some people?

So why is it many people say that self affirmations are ineffective? Is it because the power of intention is not real? Or does the brain actually feel that what you’re affirming does not reflect the truth?

The following 2 reasons are the main cause of why self affirmations do not work for some people.

First of all it is because they are doing the affirmations the wrong way, without any power, passion, intensity or emotion. If you chant affirmations in a weak and non-enthusiastic manner, it will never work. That statement will not be accepted by your brain or the universe. There is no power of intention in it. Don’t practice affirmations just for the sake of it, don’t just go through the motions with it. Do it correctly, which is with belief and power.

The other reason is because there is no congruency after practicing the affirmation. People expect that practicing affirmations will solve all their problems. But the truth is they must put in effort to work together with it. Staying congruent is important for affirmations to work.

That is the mind-set to have when it comes to practicing affirmations. Affirmations should not be considered as the end all solution. We must work with it. Be determined to help the affirmation take effect by putting in the effort to change our lives to reflect the affirmation.

The first time I encountered the name of Bob Proctor was in a book called ‘The Secret’ by author Rhonda Byrne, which focused on the Law of attraction. He featured predominantly in the book, indeed being the one to reveal the ‘The Secret’, and after watching the film adaptation his vibrant personality and smiling face helped to further drill his beliefs on life success into me.

His words, empowering yet friendly, facilitated further investigation into who this man was exactly, and why he was qualified to be showing me the way to a life of abundance. It didn’t take long to recognise that this man was living proof of how one’s life can change in a short time with the right application of the mind. Here was a man who had been a High School dropout, had a back catalogue of dead end jobs and had faced the prospect of debt. Surely any Bob Proctor coaching could only be beneficial as he had made his own success, created something out of nothing to be earning a fortune within months.

Via his website, Bob Proctor coaching promises to show you how to bridge the gap from the life of wanting to the life of having. He offers his experience in a range of programs designed to target the specific areas of your life, those things about yourself which you want to change and improve upon.

If at first it sounded like I’d heard it all before, for the promise of getting rich quick and living an ideal life is nothing new. But, having seen this man talking passionately at me, having read his words and already having some knowledge of the Law of Attraction, this was a man I could believe in.

All that I needed was to be aware of was that it was the past conditioning of my own mind which was probably holding me back from the life of spiritual awareness and enjoying a wonderful relationship. All I needed to do in order to change, was to want to change, to take that plunge and ask for help in how to get it. The Bob Proctor program, the Bob Proctor success is there for all to see.

Listen to his own words “Tell me what you want and I’ll show you how to get it!” What more of a powerful message could there be to get something that you’ve always wanted?

Then I realised. I’d always wanted a life of success in writing.