Affirmations For Writers - Enhance Your Creativity and Your Income

Have you discovered the benefits of affirmations for your writing career? Many successful writers use affirmations. If you're not using them, you're missing out on a super-simple way of reaching your full potential as a writer.

Basically affirmations are INSPIRING self-talk -- they're what you say to yourself to counteract damaging self-talk. We all have damaging self-talk running through our brains.

Damaging self-talk is the old tapes you play in your head, whenever they're triggered by something which happens. Many damaging self-talk tapes are recorded in childhood. Perhaps you broke a plate, and your exasperated mom said: "You're so clumsy!" Or you failed a test, and decided that you couldn't spell, or do maths, or draw.

In childhood, before the age of eight, you spent a lot of time in the alpha mind state. This is mind state in which you're highly suggestible, and lots of damaging mind tapes are recorded then.

If you were aware of your damaging self-talk, you could counteract it, but these old tapes play quickly, below the level of your conscious awareness.

You've got thousands of these old tapes waiting to be triggered. One of the biggest benefits of using affirmations is that you become aware of these old tapes, and once they're conscious, they lose any power they've had to affect your behavior or feelings.

For example, let's say you created an affirmation: "Writing is now easy and fun for me." You write this affirmation five times.

Here's what happens: your old tapes start to play, loudly.

Write down what these old tapes say -- you'll need to write quickly, you've probably got many tapes which say things like: "Writing is hard, I've never been good at writing"; "I can't write"; "Nothing I write is good or worthwhile, so it's a waste of time trying."

This is excellent -- write down as many of these old tapes as you can, because now you know what they are, they can't hurt you.

Affirmations Help You to Change Your Belief System

Affirmations help you to change disabling beliefs -- those beliefs you're not aware that you hold.

Here's how to create your own empowering affirmations: create them from your mind tapes. Just switch the old tapes from negative statements to positive ones.

For example:

* Writing is hard, I've never been good at writing BECOMES: "Writing is easy and fun for me, I've always been great at writing";

* I can't write BECOMES: "I write easily and effortlessly, I'm an excellent writer."

Try it. Affirmations enhance your creativity and your income. Why walk around with old, damaging self-talk? Start changing your self-talk today, with the power of affirmations.

How Scrapbooking And Paper Crafting Can Serve Practical And Inspiring Purposes

Paper crafting is an activity that allows us to open to our imagination and shape things than mean something to us as individuals. Sometimes, these objects are functional in the traditional sense, but often they are not. When the latter appears true, these items may have a shelf life that is short; think of holiday cards or origami pieces that weren't meant to last beyond a few weeks with general handling. But, are they really "non-functional" if they help motivate and inspire us to do the things we must do and live better lives?

These items can still be functional in the sense that they have the practical purpose of providing moments of pleasure as we make them and enjoy them later in life. They can even play major roles in how we attain goals or work in certain spaces; items on display have the purpose of reminding us of what is important and or adding to our general appreciation of life as we see something that brings us pleasure on a regular basis. These can function as creative motivators that generate ideas which are very specific to how we are motivated on an individual level.

Looking at things that give us pleasure is key to some people. And sometimes, the general cleanliness, orderliness or artistic design of a room can throw certain individuals way off kilter or swing them back into the range of productivity that helps them meet their work and life goals. Often these people, will say things like "it feels so much easier to work in here" or "now, I feel inspired" or the common one, "I can't work around a mess."

For example, a crafty YouTube personality, with the online handle, "athomewithnikki," has made an inspiring workplace out of close. Really. Important to Nikki, colors play a large role as well. One of her main motivators was to think of how a big business operates and set off sections of the closet according to that mindset, including inventory, supplies and so on. These are extreme examples of how combining the very practical function of using inspiration and craft projects can alter your general course in life and improve it for the better. Creativity extends from all of her crafty projects and culminates in her use of colors, words and concepts to help shape objects which will influence her life for the better. Most of us could use this kind of thinking in our lives.

How will these ideas affect your next paper crafting project?

Finding out what inspires you to meet goals could be as simple as looking at what you have that must be attended to and, then, finding the way to represent it in the most personally appealing and motivating matter. You can also notice what others say helps them. Be encouraged. And, consider if the essence of those ideas or the ideas themselves could aid your process ass you attempt to combine the inspiring with the practical.