Positive Affirmations & Positive Sayings

It is natural to have concerns. My concerns can help me identify worry and anxiety. By recognizing my concerns I can take actions to soothe my nerves and eliminate doubts.

Each concern I have is a thread. These threads occasionally enter my mind. When I ignore my concerns, I create an untidy and unmanageable tangle of threads.

I can take control of my life by addressing my concerns and organizing my thoughts. This allows me to loosen the threads, untangle them, and see each strand clearly.

By seeing my concerns as individual threads, I can manage them effectively. This allows me to be objective. I am able to organize my worries and address them in a practical way. I see where each concern begins and where it ends. I assess the value each concern may have in my life. Once I recognize my fears, I choose to move beyond them.

My mind is unburdened by the release of unnecessary and unhelpful worries. Eliminating troublesome concerns from my head is as easy as pulling a loose sting from my mind and throwing it to the wind. Organizing my thoughts and ridding myself of unproductive concerns is liberating.

Since I am in control of my thoughts, I do not allow my concerns to become an unmanageable jumble in my mind. I refuse to accumulate anxiety, so I deal with concerns in a rational manner. This allows me the freedom to release my worries and eliminate negative thoughts.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. Have I ignored my concerns and allowed anxiety to accumulate in my mind?
2. Can I look at each concern separately and decide why I give this concern space in my mind?
3. How can use positive thoughts and action to eliminate needless worries from my life and soothe recurring worries?

My past is only a benchmark for my present and future progression. Where I started does not dictate where I will end up. It is only a starting point, from which I launch into better things.

I am not defined by my past, but I do not allow myself to forget it either because it reminds me of how far I have come.

I compare myself only to me, gauging progress from where I began. I do not compare myself to anyone else. Everyone has his own history, his own personality, his own unique set of circumstances that shaped him and placed him where he is today.

I am not everyone. I am, simply, me.

I have my own history that has shaped me, and therefore my progress can only be effectively evaluated by looking at where I have come from.

I am not defined by how far I have yet to go, nor am I compared to the success of others. No one is better than anyone. We are merely, different.

Everyone has his own path to run. Comparing my journey to someone else's will lead only to arrogance or discouragement. The best thing I can do for myself is to keep my gaze on my own path, evaluating my progress only by how far I, myself, have come.

And I extend the same courtesy to others, allowing them the freedom to walk their own paths at their own pace, knowing that there is no universal measuring stick, that progress can only be gauged by how far one has come.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. How far have I come in my personal journey?
2. What lets me know that I have made progress?
3. Am I using anyone else's journey to try to evaluate my own progression?

The only person I can control is me. It's not my responsibility to ensure that my partner, children, siblings, co-workers, or neighbors make the right decisions.

Trying to control another person's actions is about as effective as staring at a silkworm and thinking that I can make it turn into a butterfly by wishing hard enough. It simply doesn't happen like that. The silkworm will only change when it's ready, and there is nothing I can do to rush that process.

Accepting this fact allows me to stop wasting my precious energy on situations that are outside of my control. I have only a limited amount of energy, and I should use it to improve the one person I can control: myself.

Stepping back from all attempts to control other people does not mean that I no longer care about what happens them. I do care! But their decisions are theirs alone, and I must allow them their choices, as I wish to be granted mine.

Respecting others' choices does not mean I have to be a victim when they choose poorly. The fact that I am in control of myself means that I have the freedom to remove myself from situations that are hurtful to me. I cannot change others, but I can change myself and the circumstances I am in, if and when I need to.

Caring for myself involves acknowledging that the only person who truly controls my life is me and that the only life I can truly control is my own.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. Who am I trying to control?
2. What steps do I need to take to let go of my attempts to control this person?
3. In what ways have I given up control of my own life?