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I use to do confidence affirmations and they definitely had an effect on me.
It's not a case of doing them for a couple of weeks though - they need to be done for months and years. So you need to be disciplined and consistent. Affirmations don't mean that if you do them, you will be cured. It does reprogram your brain to think differently and respond differently (depending on what the affirmation is).
You still need to make practical progress and go beyond just affirmations - othrewise they won't work as well.
Perfect.
That's what I always say about affirmations: they reprogram your brain. As long as you are consistent, you will get results.
There are 2 keys:
1 - Repetition: Listen to it over and over, say it over and over, hear it over and over, be it over and over. The more you repeat it, the more it becomes internalized and a part of who you are.
2 - Consciousness: You have to be consciously aware of your thoughts and actions, so you can catch yourself thinking, behaving, or responding negatively, and then consciously say to yourself "wait a second...this is not how I want to think/behave/respond." Then consciously change it.
I have a lot of audios that I listen to, and my favorite place to listen to them is at the gym. Working out at the gym, combined with the audios, creates this perfect storm of motivation that has to be experienced to be understood. You get this amazing surge of energy and you feel like there is nothing in the world that you can't do.
The audios I listen to most often are:
"How to be a No Limit Person" by Wayne Dyer
"Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins
"On Becoming a Man" by David D'Angelo
"Iron John" by Robert Bly
"How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" by Dale Carnegie
"The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader" by John C. Maxwell