The Power of Affirmation

Wilma Rudolph was the first American woman to win three Gold Medals at a single Olympic Games. She was also an active civil rights campaigner and women’s right pioneer. She was, at her time, the fastest woman in the world.

Wilma perfectly demonstrated the power of affirmation in her life. During her childhood, Wilma suffered from numerous diseases, the most significant being infantile paralysis. As a result of this, she had to wear a brace on her left leg up until the age of twelve.

Wilma says that her doctor told her that she would never walk and her mother told her that she would. She says that she affirmed with her mother.

The fact that Wilma managed to walk, then run and, ultimately, become the fastest woman in the world, was due to the power of affirmation. Wilma kept her mother’s mantra at the forefront of her mind. She positively affirmed that she would walk – over and over again. As a result, she was able to walk, despite what the medical professionals had told her.

Although our goals may not be the same as Wilma’s goal, we still face the same challenge. We are constantly surrounded by people who tell us we cannot achieve our goals or live the lifestyle that we desire. Similarly, there is always a small voice that tells us to strive for what we want and affirms that we can achieve it.

The difference between success and failure is which affirmation you listen to, believe and, ultimately, repeat over and over again. Most people choose the affirmation that tells them that life is difficult, success is difficult and, as a result, they do not live the life that they deserve.

Successful people, however, consciously hold on to a positive affirmation. They make that voice the loudest in their head. Even if they do not believe that affirmation at first, they repeat it so many times that they start to believe it. As a result, this thought attracts the people and circumstance into their life that can turn their goals into reality.

Take some time to examine the affirmations that you constantly repeat to yourself. Do they help or hinder you? If they do not help you, write down an affirmation that will. Write it down and put it in several places. This could be by your bed, in your car, on your desk or on your bathroom mirror. See this affirmation in many places so that you are reminded of it. You can also put it on your computer so that it subconsciously flashes thousands of times a day with a program like MindZoom, so that you are constantly having this new affirmation programmed into you. Start the new week with a new affirmation. This is, for many, the first step towards the life that they want to live.