Affirmations are powerful statements you tell yourself to move yourself into a positive reality, statements that you know at other times to be true, statements that empower you to bring out your best when you get into dangerous territory of thinking about the negative.

We all experience things that seek to destroy our motivation, setbacks when circumstances don’t go as expected, a prospect that decides not to move forward, a personal injury or family emergency that forces us to take time out, a negative comment that causes some of our underlying fears to surface.

We have a choice. We can play tapes in our heads that give into that emotional distress and put us in victim mode. Or we can play different tapes, ones that are uplifting, empowering, inspiring, confirming our value to ourselves and to others.

Here’s a fun video about a young girl who knows how to think positive.