Personally, I’ve had little trouble with the subject of affirmation for many years. When I first began looking for ways to improve my trading outside of market-related factors in my college years, I initially found affirmations somewhat silly. However, affirmations are a form of meditation and visualization and can help us to see our true potential. Affirmations are vitally important to become successful in all areas of our lives. I now believe that almost every successful person has some sort of affirmation tool that they use on a daily basis, even if they don’t call it “affirmation.”
Affirmations are a pep talk of self-esteem to help keep stress in check, allow us greater emotional intelligence and awareness, and ultimately result in a healthy ego.
This morning, on my way to the office, the radio station I like to listen to had on a little contest where they took random callers and they would ask them to give a “pep” talk to a team. This isn’t just one of those, “Let’s be positive, go get ‘em Tigers chant.” No, it’s more like, “Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens is injured and he has been put on the bench the entire season,” and the caller is the person replacing Ray Lewis! So in 15 seconds or less, say what you need to say to the Ravens, just as Ray Lewis would!
I’ve only gotten a chance to hear one caller, an elderly woman from Baltimore, and the call when something like this:
Radio DJ: “You have 15 seconds to get the Ravens ready for the Pittsburgh Steelers!, Ready, Set Go"!”
Caller: “Okay…team. Let’s get ready, we have to win…um…”
And, before she could calmly produce the next word, a loud buzz came on followed by laughter in the background!
Radio DJ: “If that’s what Ray Lewis says to the Ravens, I’d move to Pittsburgh and be a Steelers fan!”
The woman only wanted to win the Ravens tickets they were giving away, and I doubt she did with that monotone pep talk. But, all of us often give ourselves uninspiring, energy-less self-talk. Or worse, negative self-talk. So, like Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens, put some oomph behind those words and follow it up with a massive hit to the upper body area!
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