Positive Affirmations & Positive Sayings

Sharon Melnick, a well-known life coach and a clinical psychologist, has been working with Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs and professionals to achieve the quality of life that they want.

In this video, she talks about the two ways in which people gain confidence. Most people use the indirect way (getting validation from other people which reinforces our confidence in our abilities). However, it is too time-consuming and not as effective as the direct way. The direct way consists of creating a core vision for yourself and acting to make it happen.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• 2 ways to be confident: indirect and direct
• Indirect behavior: getting validation from other people about your competence
• Direct behavior: build a core vision for yourself and your team and act on it
• What excites you about this vision?
• What benefits will it bring to your life?
• What strengths and talents do you have to make it happen?

Overall Rating (1-5): 3

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 4
She's a dynamic speaker and has lots of energy and uses movement to keep people engaged.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 3
Her examples for applying the direct way to confidence are vague.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

We can sabotage ourselves on the way to success. This is the reason why Sharon Melnick created a program entitled "How to Get Out of Your Own Way."

She has discovered the power of harnessing the direct route to gaining self-confidence. Many people validate themselves through others. Others cut off ways for people to reject them to protect their confidence from being bruised. These are both indirect ways of gaining confidence.

Melnick advocates using the direct route-that is, using energy and effort to harness one's core strengths so one doesn't have to borrow confidence from other people.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Indirect route to self-confidence: a person acts towards others to gain their approval
• The indirect route is like borrowing your confidence from others
• Direct route: use your energy and attention into things that strengthen your core competence
• Figure out how you can make yourself feel the same way as if other people have validated and affirmed you
• Make a game plan to help you measure up to your ideal self

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 2

Not much entertainment value.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 5
Excellent teaching and steps to follow.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

You are the captain of your own ship, says Sharon Melnick. Your conscious thoughts, whether you are aware of it or not, are sending orders to your subconscious mind on how to conduct yourself and how well you fare in every activity you do. Therefore, the only logical way to go is to control your thoughts in such a way that they will work for your own good.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Creating success means using each of the 60,000 to the service of attaining your goal
• Conscious mind=captain, subconscious=crew members
• Be aware of the captain's orders that take you away from your goal

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 3

As a speaker, Melnick looks comfortable and natural in her way of speaking.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 5

The video provides excellent advice and explanation behind the theory.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

Some people don't trust themselves. Failures in the past might have led them to believe that trusting themselves is not a good idea.
There is a scientific way of debunking this myth. Sharon Melnick recommends keeping an intuition log to record what happens when intuition is followed. The result can be a concrete proof that could build self-confidence.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Create an Intuition Log. (Context, Intuition: Yes/No, What happens after).
• The data is concrete evidence that helps you to trust yourself.

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 2
Not much entertainment value.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 5

The video provides excellent advice for viewers to follow.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

Our thoughts affect our lives more than we think. And we have plenty of them: between 50-60,000 thoughts a day translates to up to that many chances to improve or damage ourselves.

Sharon Melnick gives wise advice: "Use your thoughts to take you closer to your goal." If we take the necessary steps to ensure that we control our conscious thoughts, then we can be closer to our ideal selves faster in no time.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• We have 50,000-60,000 thoughts a day.
• Use your thoughts to take you closer to your goal.
• Take charge of your mind.

Overall Rating (1-5): 5

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 3
Sharon Melnick is an excellent psychologist, perhaps she could tone down the hand movements on camera as we found it a little distracting.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 5

She gives a concrete analogy to explain the concepts and simple things to do to take action.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!