Thursday, December 22, 2011

Thursday

"Today I decide to be wealthy."  Repeat morning and night, and during the day, whenever.

Affirmations are nothing new.  The Greatest Salesman in the World was very popular in the '70's, and I think my dad even had a copy of it.  I got a copy of it when I was in Eugene or Logan, and tried doing it, and failed by the second chapter.  One of my friends, a former missionary, said that the affirmation sentences were all put together and was basically a mission chant.  She wasn't even aware that there was a book, let alone the preaching published for each affirmation.

Saturday Night Live mocked affirmations I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!: Daily Affirmations With Stuart Smalley, is still available on-line.  The author of that is now in politics; you have to believe in yourself pretty good to have that job.

But I'm still going to try this one--  Today I decide to be wealthy.  (Not become, but to be.)

One of the other things in the book was about "making money in the margins."  I'm a trained writer; I've sold a short story and a children's puzzle, so I'm also a published one, even though it was decades ago.  I should be using this talent to make some money.

And goodness knows, I still have Sister B.'s book to do, the family history books and the neighborhood newsletter, all today.







 

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