This post was most recently updated on August 14th, 2023
[Guest Post]
Imagine with just a few sentences and a bit of work, you could;
- motivate yourself
- boost your confidence
- achieve better health
- improve your quality of life
- encourage better relationships
- set your self up for success
Would you do it? Because that’s exactly what daily affirmations do. So what exactly are affirmations?
Affirmations are powerful statements that we believe (or want to believe) to be true. They allow you to consciously control your thoughts. So, when you say or think them, they become the thoughts that shape your reality.
People have become more confident, outgrown their fears, achieved more because of affirmations.
An example of this is that let’s say you’re scared of spiders. You tell yourself, ‘I’m scared of spiders.’ and/or ‘I hate spiders, they scare me’. And you tell this to yourself again and again. This manifests into reality, and now when you see a spider, you feel scared. You told your brain, that you’re scared of spiders, so your brain caused your entire body to react with fear.
But luckily for us, we can use this for positive effects. huffpost.com says “Affirmations can be a powerful tool to help you to change your mood, state of mind and manifest the change you desire in your life.”
So, use these affirmations to change your life.
(PS. Affirmations aren’t quick-fixes and need consistency. But if you use them consistently use them, you’ll start to see the positive effects affirmations can have.)
Daily Affirmations
These are affirmations, you want to repeat daily. They are quite generic and are similar to goal affirmations. I use daily affirmations to start the day and go into a certain mindset. Like achieving a goal, or my attitude. Here are a few:
- I am worthy.
- I love being me.
- Amazing things are going to happen.
- I am proud of myself
- I can make it through anything.
- I am strong and healthy.
Motivational Affirmations
These affirmations spark powerful and motivated mindsets, which encourage you to work harder. Sometimes we need a push, and that’s what these affirmations are here for.
- I don’t sweat the small stuff.
- I am in charge of how I feel and today I am choosing happiness.
- I will not compare myself to strangers on the Internet.
- My presence is my power.
- I am successful in whatever I do.
- There are no limits to what I can achieve.
I’ll be talking about making tailored goal affirmations later in this post. These are generic goal affirmations, similar to daily ones.
- I can handle anything that comes my way
- I am limitless and anything is possible.
- I am financially prospering every day.
- I’m full of great ideas to accomplish my goals.
- Opportunities always find me at the right time.
- I am creating an amazing life for myself.
Self-Love Affirmations
Affirmations are a great way to boost your confidence and love towards yourself.
- I will always be there for myself.
- I love myself more every day.
- I choose to stop apologizing for being me.
- I am worthy of good things.
- I love and stand by myself, as I am.
Make Your Own Affirmations
Making your own affirmations isn’t that hard actually. I for one thought it would be difficult, but then I realized it’s pretty easy. Here are some areas of your life in which you would like to create your own affirmations.
Your Best Qualities
Confidence is knowing your best qualities and improving in others. Let’s say you’re a great artist you could make these affirmations.
- I’m a wonderful artist, and I’m becoming better every day.
- I am worthy of [something related to art] because my art is amazing.
- I’m becoming an amazing [something else your working on], just like I’m a great artist.
These are the ones that I got off the top of my head, but reminding yourself of your best qualities boosts your confidence. Try saying these every day, and see the difference in your attitude towards art and others.
If one of your best qualities is a characteristic trait such as generosity, loyalty, kindness, determination, honesty. You can also create affirmations off of them. For example on determination,
- I am strong, confident, and determined.
- I choose to work hard and stick to achieving my goals.
- I am a determined person and will put in the work to achieve the life I want.
A Change You Want To Make
Affirmations like said before, are a wonderful way to manifest the change in your life. And are easily customizable. Start with
- “I want to…”
- “I will…”
- I will accomplish (this) by doing (this).
- I have the power to make a change in my life and will do that by…
- I will start positive change in my life by…
These types of affirmations are great for baby step changes, and working toward a goal. For example, when I wanted to work on my fitness goals I said:
- I will become fitter by exercising almost every day.
- I will become stronger by lifting weights and doing toning exercises.
- I believe in, trust, and have confidence in myself.
Your Visualizations
Visualization affirmations range in meaning. Like where you want to be next month, next year, or in the next five years. Or how you’re life will be after a certain event and/or achievement. Here are a few examples, which you can alter to your visualizations.
- My blog will gain more visitors, and it will be successful.
- Next year I want to be happy with my fitness level.
- By next month, my grades will increase because I’ll study/pay attention/work more.
- After my birthday, I will try to be kinder to myself.
- After I get this award, I’ll be a magnet for new opportunities.
Please feel free to substitute your own goals and visualizations, and I would love to read them in the comments!
Personal Goals
While these are quite similar to visualizations, they’re more specific. As before, tailor these affirmations to your life.
- I will learn (…) by (a certain time)
- I can do anything I put my mind to.
- I have the courage to accomplish (…)
- I have the power to create change.
Well, these 8 different types of affirmations will surely help change your life for the better. There are about 50 affirmations in this post, and I hope you use them!
Let me know if you have any affirmations you love, I’m always looking to add more to my list. And if you’re having trouble creating your own, my social media links are down below. Feel free to contact me 🙂
And while you’re saying these affirmations, why not use this FREE 30-day self-growth calendar.
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This post is one of those you bookmark and keep goming back to, so helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Affirmations have such a huge impact on our mental health! I love the daily affirmations listed
This was such a great read! I started using affirmations almost a month ago now and I can truly feel the change in mood and over all esteem. I feel much better knowing that I can do it and they help even on the worse of days! Thanks for sharing x
I recently only started to learn more about affirmations so this was a great post to read! Thankyou for sharing, I’m sure these will be helpful to many people x
It’s incredible to see how affirmations can have such a profound impact on so many different areas of our life, isn’t it? This is a practice that I have been incorporating into my daily routine for a while now and it really does make a difference. Any time that I miss it, I feel the difference. That’s reasoning enough for me to keep making it a priority!
I am aware of the power of affirmationa, but had never considered a visualization affirmation. This has to be the equivalent of a vision board times ten. Thank your for the introduction and detailed information.
Self love all the way!!! Thanks for sharing this
These are all brilliant affirmations to help you feel better this year, and also to invest in a better life outlook. Thank you for sharing x
Great affirmations. I truly enjoyed
thanks for sharing
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It really is incredible how the mind works, isn’t it? Just repeating things over and over again can create such a massive effect – positive or negative. I read in a book recently that we create train tracks in our brain when we tell ourselves things over and over… in order to change that, we have to physically jump OUT of the train and redirect the track so that we can create a new path to follow. It takes a lot of intentional work, not just intellectual work, and it can make a huge difference!! Affirmations are like that!
Great suggestions for affirmations. Affirmations are great to add into your routine to create a more positive mindset x
I really started getting into affirmations around the middle of last year. I even have an affirmation journal that I use every morning and you can write your own affirmations and everything! They really do help and make you feel more powerful in a sense.
Great post! I love affirmations and have being using them since I was very young. I really like how you explained the different types of affirmations. It illustrated how affirmations can be helpful in all areas of your life. Thanks for sharing!
I love this! I think affirmations can be so powerful and I know I don’t use them often enough. I am definitely going to start using some of these.
I love the variety in the affirmations, this is a great post for collecting and putting together you own list. Love it! 🙂
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I think being able to genuinely praise your own worth is such a valuable skill, and surely helped by the repetition of these mantras. Thanks for sharing this wonderful advice!
That’s cool ! we all have to try it, the better life is in the corner