I heard Zig Ziglar speak at an event several years ago and purchased some of his products. Inside the CD set was a card with this procedure on it.  This is a very powerful tool to turn your negative self talk to powerful self talk as a starting point to change your thinking.  Follow the directions below and watch how your world changes.  As Norman Vincent Peale said "change your thoughts and you change your world."

A Life-Changing Procedure

 

The eyes are the windows of the soul.  So, to the person you are capable of becoming, each evening, just before you go to bed, stand in front of a mirror alone and in the first person, present tense, look yourself in the eye and repeat with passion and enthusiasm paragraphs A, B, C and D.  Repeat this process every morning and every evening from this day forward.  Within one week you will notice remarkable changes in your life.  After thirty days add the procedure at the bottom of this card.

 

“ I, your name am an honest, intelligent, organized, responsible, committed, teachable person who is sober, loyal, and clearly understands that regardless of who signs my paycheck I am self-employed.  I am an optimistic, punctual, enthusiastic, goal-setting, smart working self starter who is a disciplined, focused, dependable, persistent positive thinker with great self-control, and am an energetic and diligent team player and hard worker who appreciates the opportunity my company and the free enterprise system offer me.  I am thrifty with my resources and apply common sense to my daily tasks.  I take honest pride in my competence, appearance and manners, and am motivated to be and do my best so that my healthy self-image will remain on solid ground. These are the qualities which enable me to manage myself and help give me employment security in a non job-security world.

 

I, your name, am a compassionate, respectful encourager who is a considerate, generous, gentle, patient, caring, sensitive, personable, attentive, fun-loving person.  I am a supportive, giving and forgiving, clean, kind, unselfish, affectionate, loving, family-oriented human being and I am a sincere and open-minded good listener and a good-finder who is trustworthy.  These are the qualities which enable me to build good relationships with my associates, neighbors, mate and family.

 

I your name, am a person of integrity, with the faith and wisdom to know what I should do and the courage and convictions to follow through.  I have the vision to manage myself and to lead others.  I am authoritative, confident, and humbly grateful for the opportunity life offers me.  I am fair, flexible, resourceful, creative, knowledgeable, decisive and an extra-miler with a servants attitude who communicates well with others.  I am a consistent, pragmatic teacher with character and a finely-tuned sense of humor.  I am an honorable person and am balanced in my personal, family and business life, and have a passion for being, doing and learning more today so I can be, do and have more tomorrow. 

 

“These are the qualities of the winner I was born to be and I am fully committed to developing these marvelous qualities with which I have been entrusted.  Tonight I’m going to sleep wonderfully well.  I will dream powerful, positive dreams.  I will awaken energized and refreshed; tomorrows going to be magnificent and my future is unlimited.  Recognizing, claiming and developing these qualities which I already have gives me a legitimate chance to be happier, healthier, more prosperous, more secure, have more friends, greater peace of mind, better family relationships and legitimate hope that the future will be even better”

 

Repeat the process the next morning and close by saying, “These are the qualities of the winner I was born to be and I will develop and use these qualities to achieve my worthy objectives.  Today is a brand new day and it’s mine to use in a marvelously productive way