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There’s a joke I heard years ago:
“Why do people spend a couple of years writing a novel when they could just buy one for a few dollars?”
Yeah, yeah. Hilarious, I know.
Folks don’t write a novel to end up with one – they write one because there’s something churning inside of them, eager to break free. If they don’t get it out and onto the page, it’ll chew its way out of them.
So the notion of buying a novel instead of writing one doesn’t really make sense.
Which brings me to a question for you:
Is writing your own affirmations hard work?
I wouldn’t have thought so.
Sure, it involves sitting down and really thinking through what you want. And, sure, thinking is hard. But if you can’t manage that, there’s a lot that’ll get in your way.
The reason I bring this up?
A common cause of affirmation failure is stealing other folks’ affirmations instead of writing their own.
It pays to read other affirmations – you might find something that resonates with you, or a way of wording them you didn’t think of.
In other words, using them for inspiration.
But you don’t do it to mindlessly swipe them. “Hey, yeah, this sounds good, I’ll just use this.”
I’m glad you found something that appeals to you. My advice? Figure out what about that appeals you to.
What need is that meeting?
What fantasy is that prompting?
How does this appeal to you when a thousand other affirmations don’t?
By the time you dissect it, you’ll know what to write for your own. And who knows – maybe the wording will be identical to the one you read for inspiration.
But it won’t be the same.
This one came from the fires of your mind, forged by the heat of your untapped passions. The other is just something that tickles you.
Until you’ve gone through this process – until you can explain the why of your affirmation, not just the what – it won’t do much for you.
Affirmations aren’t spells – whatever magic they have comes from igniting the desire in your mind.
It stands a better chance of doing that if it comes from your mind in the first place.
Again, it’s like writing a novel. It makes sense to read novels you like – to figure out what makes them tick for you.
And to explore how to make them even better.
But it’s tacky to take someone else’s creation and claim it for your own. Illegal, too, but also really tacky.
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Source by William T Batten
