Update December 15:
- I updated this post to align my daily affirmation with what I shared in ‘lack-of-progress-in-my-quest-for-financial-independence’. I added the line “I accept the past, leave it where it belongs, and move forward toward a better future” to help prevent thoughts about the unchangeable past from distracting me from my final goal.
- I added the wording ‘whatever it takes’ to the sentence “I put in extraordinary effort to make my business generate $10,000 a week by the end of 2026″ to make myself fully aware that I need to do truly extraordinary and out-of-my-comfort-zone things, if I want to succeed
- In addition I changed: “Now I have total freedom of my time and money to use them without worries” to: “Now I have total control of my time and money, free from financial worries“, to make the wording more powerful and easier for me to visualize this goal.
- I also revised the final sentence of gratitude from: ‘I thank God and the Universe for all their help in making all this possible’ to: “Thank you, God and the Universe, for your help in making all this possible” to make it more personal, and therefore closer and more powerful.
I made all of these changes because, as you can read in this post, it’s important to have wording in your daily affirmation that truly resonates with you.
Listening to various personal growth audiobooks, many utilize the tool of repeating a phrase constantly (a “daily affirmation”) to “auto-suggest” the brain regarding what is supposed to become reality.
This is mentioned, in one form or another, in Think and Grow Rich, Grow Rich with the Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, and also in The Miracle Equation. The latter even refers to this daily affirmation as a “Mantra,” because it should be repeated many times during the day, where the definition of a mantra is: “a statement, slogan, word or sound repeated frequently to aid concentration.”
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, mentions something similar regarding the power of constantly repeating affirmations, in his video “A micro lesson on affirmation“, but in his case, he mention to write them on a piece of paper every 30 minutes.
Some of them associate its efficacy with God, saying that by repeating the phrase constantly, it gets recorded in the subconscious, which is the one that communicates with a higher being. Others simply mention it as a phrase to keep oneself focused on the actions that must be performed to achieve the goal.
as a side note, I suppose that if one is a believer, it is somewhat easier to “believe” that affirmation, because one can feel that one has “help” and is not alone in the “quest” to become a millionaire.
The "Improbable" vs. "Impossible" Shift
Regarding this “mantra” to repeat constantly, just as I mentioned in my post “My Struggle to Become 10X“, my brain simply doesn’t buy it.
However, I heard one of the authors mention that when he created his mantra, for him, that affirmation felt “possible” but highly “improbable.” That is, “there is a possibility that it will be fulfilled,” but “it is highly unlikely to occur.” Yet, after a few weeks of repeating the phrase so much, he said the goal started to feel more and more probable.
I consider this information super useful for me.
Previously, if I was looking for phrases and felt they were “highly unlikely to occur,” I would immediately discard them and categorize them as “impossible” (probably due to my past experience where nothing has worked).
But if I now think more objectively—considering the changes I will make regarding marketing and sales in the execution of my project (which I mention in “The Comfort Zone Trap“—projects that were considered “impossible” by me, with this new way of thinking, should be able to feel “possible.”
Finding the "How" First
Just as I indicated in “An Engineer’s Skeptical Experience with the Law of Attraction“, I need to know the “how” I am going to achieve the goal before I can create any mantra to “auto-suggest” my brain.
And now, finally, I think I have a business idea that will allow me to generate income.
To find the idea, I used the help of Artificial Intelligence, doing a type of brain-storming with it, according to what I feel I want to and can do.
Currently, I am trying to validate the idea by doing surveys with potential users (this is also a change in my way of attacking a new project; before, I simply executed without validating if there was a market or not).
So, since I already have an idea of the business/project to undertake, I can now create that phrase / mantra that will serve as a goal and, at the same time, as a daily affirmation.
Obviously, my brain still says that this is highly improbable, but for some reason, it doesn’t feel impossible like the phrases I mentioned in my post “My Struggle to Become 10X“.
My New Daily Affirmation
Here is the phrase I created:
“I’m a creative, productive, and disciplined person. I put in extraordinary effort, doing whatever it takes to make my business generate $10,000 dollars a week by the end of 2026, providing massive value to customers. I accept the past, leave it where it belongs, and move forward toward a better future. Now I have total control of my time and money, free from financial worries. Thank you God and the Universe, for your help in making all this possible”
If you notice, this phrase is much more elaborate than the options I mentioned in my past post: “An engineer’s skeptical experience with the law of attraction“. How did I arrive at it?
I asked (again) the the help of the Artificial Intelligence (in this case, I used Google Gemini). This was the prompt I used:
“I need you to help me create an affirmation that I will say to myself several times a day, short enough for me to memorize but long enough for me to imagine and feel it. For that, you are going to ask me questions, I will answer, and thus iteratively until you finally give me the affirmation. You cannot ask me more than 3 questions in each iteration.”
Using that prompt, plus the different questions the AI asked me, plus the indications I gave it, plus several days of reviewing and refining it, I finally arrived at that phrase (which seems to be the definitive one).
The Logic Behind Its Construction
Why This Specific Structure?
What were the points I needed to be in the phrase, so that for me it felt like a powerful, motivating, and realizable phrase? The following:
- Gratitude to God – The phrase had to have a thank you to God.
- Specificity – The phrase had to contain what I want specifically—in this case, a clear monetary amount.
- A Date: A specific date by when I expect this to become a reality
- The “How”- It also had to contain how I will achieve it.
- The Reward – It also had to contain the final reward part, the final objective, something I can imagine and motivate myself with regarding what I will do assuming I have that money.
- Self-Improvement – I added what I must improve about myself, focusing on what I lack the most. Initially, the AI put a sentence saying “I’m powerful,” but that sentence was too ethereal for me. I couldn’t understand what that meant—am I some kind of Superman with superhuman strength? – So I also made some modifications to that part to help keep me disciplined.
- Avoid distractions of the past: I added a line to my daily affirmation to help me accept the past and keep unnecessary thoughts and worries out of my mind, so I can move forward toward my goal free from distractions and negative energy.
My Brain Process When Reading the Phrase
Now, I will comment on the reasoning I used to arrive at that phrase, which I intend to use as a “daily affirmation.”
First: Define the Goal, its Size and the Date. As I indicated in my post “The Comfort Zone Trap”, one must try to set a goal 10 times the original goal. The truth is that in my case, it is 4 times my original goal, mainly because 10 times is already too big and for me not only feels improbable, it feels impossible too.
Second: Mention the “How.” As I mentioned earlier, in my personal case, I needed the “how” to be there. Not only due to “my experience with the law of attraction“, but it is also difficult for me to imagine that I earn money without having clarity on something that generates that money. I feel that if I don’t put the “how,” I am waiting for the money to fall from the sky, and that truly is hard to imagine.
(In any case, writers who speak of the Law of Attraction say that it is not necessary to know the “how” from the beginning, since by repeating the phrase, that “how” will appear).
Third: Who Must I “Become” Into? One of the authors mentions: “The objective of setting a goal is not to achieve the goal itself, but to become into the person you need to be, to achieve that goal, regardless of the final result.”
I think this is also important and super useful because it helps not to get demotivated.
If the goal is complex and requires a lot of time to come true (as is my case, where a business must be created from scratch), one is going to have more time to think “this is highly improbable”because in the creation of any business, there will be highs and lows, therefore there would be many possibilities of getting demotivated and “quitting” in the middle of the project.
But if I think that dealing with the problems and challenges of making the company successful will ‘transform’ me into a 10X person step-by-step, who later will be able to accomplish any goal, then I won’t get demotivated the first time I have problems and feel the objective is still very far away. Since the objective is my internal transformation (a more resilient, creative, productive and disciplined, person), then indirectly this “affirmation” will have more possibilities of success.
In my personal case, I must improve my discipline, and that is why I put it in the mantra. I also added “creative” (because I will need to be creative to offer a solution to customers better than what is currently on the market) and “productive” (to reinforce that the idea is to be disciplined, doing productive things for the business).
Fourth: The Final Objective. This affirmation must also have my final objective, the “why” I want to achieve all this—in this case, being able to have more freedom and fewer money worries. Adding it to the affirmation allows me to be able to imagine the final result and keep myself motivated during the entire process.
Fifth: Help leaving the past behind. The main reason I added this line is that after more than 30 years of past matters constantly resurfacing, it’s not easy to let them go, as I mentioned in my post “lack-of-progress-in-my-quest-for-financial-independence“. I added this line to my daily affirmation in the hope that repeating it will help me finally accept the past, leave it behind, and move forward toward my goal without distractions. This is especially important for someone who has more experience, because there are surely past matters that need to be left behind, which tend to follow us.
Sixth: Gratitude. It also had to have a “gratitude” part. Personally, I believe that we are all part of a higher being, just like the cells of our body, which are living beings but don’t know that adding them all up makes “me.” In the same way, I think that every living being: people, animals, plants, fish, insects, are part of a higher being that, through an appropriate communication, can help us. The book The Wealthy Gardener also mentions a “mysterious and inexplicable higher power” that helped him to achieve his goals
Seventh: Using the Right Words for Me. In my case, I feel that for me it is more “realizable” to say “I earn $10,000 a week” than to say “I earn $50,000 a month,” or “I earn $1000 daily,”even though they are very similar. Why? Because in my last job, they paid me weekly, so it is easier for me to imagine a weekly payment.
The Routine
Finally, this will be my cerebral process when I read/say the phrase:
- “I’m a creative, productive, and disciplined person.” I will imagine myself powerful, as a 10X person who can do everything, and that there are no impossibles if I am creative, productive, and disciplined.
- “I put in extraordinary effort, doing whatever it takes to make my business generate $10,000 dollars a week, by the end of 2026.” I will imagine myself doing everything necessary for the business to generate the $10,000 a week as soon as possible. Here I refer to all the things that will have to be done so that my business/solution is known, even if I don’t like them. Doing “whatever it takes”.
- “Providing massive value to customers.” I put this phrase in so as not to forget that the only way to achieve generating the weekly $10,000 is by focusing on providing massive value to my customers.
- “I accept the past, leave it where it belongs, and move forward toward a better future”. Here I will remind myself that there is nothing I can do to undo past actions, and that I should accept the past. I will also remember that, despite everything, today I am in a better financial position than I was 30 years ago, and that I should focus only on the better future that awaits me.
- “Now I have total control of my time and money, free from financial worries.” Here I will imagine traveling with my family through Europe, going to museums, buying the car I like, buying the car my wife wants, going to restaurants without worrying about the price, living in a super house that I will build, helping my family and my wife’s family, helping the homeless find work, helping older people find work, etc. The idea is to “feel” to keep myself motivated. (Obviously, $10,000 weekly won’t achieve all this, but it will be a first step and then we will increase the goal).
- “Thank you, God and the Universe, for your help in making all this possible.” Here I will think not only about thanking the Universe that it will help me achieve the goal, but I will also give thanks for everything it has done for me up to now.
This is because normally one focuses on the negative things and not on the positive things. I read that this is part of human nature. For example, if one is evaluated at work, the boss can say 10 positive things about you and only one negative thing, but from then on, you will only think about that negative thing.
Somehow, one must think positive, and being grateful for what I have helps. Keeping oneself thinking about negative past things is bad for you, and besides, they already happened, so one can’t do anything to resolve them.
Obviously, this is easier said than done. I have many things I regret not having executed at their due time—at least 5!—which I constantly think about, and I know they only produce negative vibrations.
So, what I must do is memorize and repeat this mantra several times a day.
But the idea is not just to repeat it like a parrot without knowing what I am saying.
Therefore, I will try to sit in a comfortable chair 3 times a day, close my eyes, breathe deeply 3 times, and start reciting the phrase. But at each point, I will take a pause of a few seconds to try to imagine and feel what I am saying.
Therefore, in this case, there are 5 points. If we calculate about 30-60 seconds of imagination per point, I should be ready in less than 10 minutes. If so, perhaps I could do it even more times a day.
But I’ll be telling you how it goes, because, as I mentioned before, I’m in the middle of a move, which is going to take about two weeks.
