| After about a week of repeating your new | | | | successfully move from where they are to where |
| affirmations, you've probably noticed something very | | | | they would like to be. Many people have started a |
| interesting and a bit frustrating as well. You are | | | | self-help program, including the use of affirmations |
| probably having lots of fun with some affirmations. | | | | only to give up a relatively short time later and |
| There are others, however, that have a little silent | | | | resume their former lives. Many of these programs |
| internal backlash with them. In other words, | | | | have systems of spaced repetition, in other words, |
| immediately after you repeat your affirmation, that | | | | selecting certain times of the day and/or night to |
| little voice inside your head lets loose with a barrage | | | | repeat the affirmations. I know of a course that |
| of the reverse of your affirmation. A version of a | | | | recommended 10 minutes of affirmations upon arising |
| "do not want" thought or image that you flushed | | | | in the morning, 10 minutes at the noon hour, and 10 |
| away earlier, has re-appeared with a vengeance! At | | | | more just before retiring at night. Assuming that a |
| other times though, it will slither back so quietly and | | | | person gets 8 hours of sleep, 18 waking hours remain |
| unobtrusively as to almost be imperceptible. Its | | | | in the 24 hour day. A person is engaged in |
| message is just as clear. | | | | affirmations 30 minutes or slightly less than 3% of |
| That negative response to an affirmation is called a | | | | those available waking hours (1,080 minutes). It does |
| "tail-ender". I'll give you an example. Let's say you | | | | not take very much imagination to guess what is |
| crafted the following affirmation, the end result is | | | | happening in the person's mind during the remaining |
| targeted at an increase in income so that the stress | | | | 1,050 minutes. |
| of saving for retirement is alleviated: "I am so happy | | | | Most of the unfortunate souls who start one of |
| and grateful now that I earn $10,000 a month in my | | | | these kinds of programs either do not have a tool to |
| online business from home and I dedicate $2,000 for | | | | deal with tail-enders or do not sufficiently recognize |
| my retirement fund." The tail-ender responds with: | | | | them in the first place. If tail-enders aren't dealt with |
| "Are you crazy? You know you've never earned | | | | immediately, they can retard or reverse the progress |
| more than $3,500 a month in you entire life and now | | | | of the best programs. The consistent "do not want" |
| you're talking about $10,000, and online no less. What | | | | thoughts, images and habits can be relentless in |
| do you know about the internet? Nobody makes | | | | attempting to ensure that they are consistently at |
| that much money from home. There are too many | | | | center stage in your consistent thoughts, images and |
| scams out there on that internet." The tail-ender is | | | | habits. I know it is a hard pill to swallow but lest you |
| your real affirmation. Successfully dealing with these | | | | forget, they have been in charge of your mind nearly |
| incessant gremlins marks another, and I think your | | | | all of your life. |
| greatest, crossroad. | | | | In the next article, I will share with you the tools I |
| Even though we symbolically got rid of your "do not | | | | used to subdue my tail-enders sufficiently to allow |
| want" thoughts, images and habits in truth they | | | | me to successfully move to what I wanted. |
| never really go away. They recede below the | | | | Remember, you do not have to live on less in |
| conscious level and await an opportunity to interject | | | | retirement. No matter where you are right now |
| themselves back into your consistent thinking. We | | | | financially, you can build and enjoy a Million Dollar |
| are now at the heart of why most people do not | | | | lifestyle retirement. |