Self-Affirming Beliefs

To achieve self-determination, here are ten self- affirming beliefs you can internalize and incorporate in your own life to help bolster your self-acceptance and self-trust. They came from Denis Waitley's program The New Dynamics of Winning.

1. I control my thoughts, emotions and actions and direct them to improve the quality of my health, my relationships, my performance, and my life.
2. I am a good, valuable, and worthy person.
3. I am fully capable of achieving the goals that I set for myself today.
4. I trust my abilities and my judgment in taking risks that will test my limits, willing to live with the consequences and rewards of my decisions.
5. I am responsible for the values by which I live.
6. I learn from problems and setbacks, and through them find opportunities for improvement and more personal growth.
7. My spirit, mind and body are a powerful team which I set free to excel.
8. I am my own best friend and coach; when I talk to myself I am encouraging, supportive and respectful.
9. Every day I am becoming more knowledgeable, more aware, more curious, more caring, and more adaptable, more successful and more in control.
10. Regardless of what happens in my life, I have decided to be happy.

If these beliefs strike a chord with you too, print them out and frame them on your desk; incorporate them into who you are.