A testimonial is defined as being a formal statement testifying to your character or qualifications. The key words in this definition are: statement and testifying.

Now, we know that people usually make statements that testify of something based upon EVIDENCE, right?

So here is a question for you: What would the evidence seen in your life testify of you?

Remember, a testimonial may be a good one (positive), or it may be not so good (negative) – it all depends on the evidence. A person will make a statement based upon the evidence that he or she sees or has seen.

The evidence that testifies of your character and qualifications would be:

• The words you speak.
• The attitudes you show.
• The actions (and reactions) you demonstrate.

These are the three things that someone who was asked to write a statement testifying of your character or qualifications would use as a basis for his or her testimonial about you.

This is because these are the three things that people around you can SEE for themselves. But I am sure that you know that these three things are actually created by hidden areas of your life. Only YOU (and God) know about these hidden areas. 

So what are these secret areas?

• Your thoughts
• Your secret attitudes (yes, your secret attitudes MAY be different from the attitudes you display to the world).
• The decisions that you are constantly making as a result of your thoughts and secret attitudes.

Now here are some sad facts:

• Too many people do not take control of their thoughts, secret attitudes and constant decisions.
• Instead they allow the influences of the world to control these hidden areas of their lives.
• The result is that their lives are controlled by the negative influences of the world. (The default influences of the world are negative).

This is the key difference between a winner and a loser.

A loser allows himself to be tossed around by the influences that surround his life.

A winner takes control of his thoughts, his secret attitudes and his daily decisions. He or she refuses to allow the negative influences that surround him to control his life.

• A winner takes an ACTIVE role in his life.
• A loser takes a PASSIVE role in his life.

A winner DELIBERATELY speaks positive words into his or her own life and the lives of those around him.

A winner recognizes that the default influence of the world is negative.

A winner makes a daily decision to live in the positive realm of life.

He or she does this by:

• Speaking positive words
• Thinking positive thoughts.
• Making positive decisions.
• Determining to maintain a positive attitude no matter what happens.

Affirmation #154 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Affirmation Challenge focuses on speaking words of faith.

When you SPEAK words of faith over your life, it will be easier to also THINK words of faith. 

When your thoughts and your spoken words agree, your decisions and your actions will also tend to be decisions and actions of faith. Your testimonial will be positive!

Take some time today to speak the following affirmation into your life:

I am building my Testimonial today

by speaking words of faith over my life.

Now make a deliberate and concentrated effort to make sure that today all of your words will be words of faith. If you can do this for one day, you can do it for two days – right?

Keep going, until you form a habit of speaking words of faith over your life, and notice the difference it makes!

And always remember:

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Be sure to check out this challenge and download your free motivational mp3s and mp4 from here as well.

One word – fear. Fear causes too many people to stay in their comfort zones.

Just this afternoon I was chatting with a friend who commented that she has it in her heart to achieve a certain goal.

However her dream is overwhelming to her at the moment, to the point that she commented “I am afraid”.

Yes – she has a dream, yet she was afraid. Afraid of what?

• Afraid of not being good enough to achieve it.
• Afraid of not being able to achieve it.
• Afraid of stepping out of her comfort zone!

The affirmation that we are looking at today is number 142 of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge.

I recently completed this challenge and it has made such an impact on my life. Each affirmation is strategically written by John Di Lemme so that when you faithfully make these declarations they WILL change your life.

Number 142 is all about your comfort zone:

I am sure you have noticed and likely even experienced the human tendency to stay safe. Of course this is one of our survival instincts. This can be a good thing but it can also be a bad thing.

While our survival instincts may keep us safe in some areas of life, in other areas they can be a negative influences in our lives:

• They can make you fear the disapproval of your friends. They will keep you under the approval of others.
• They can make you fear the unknown. If you give in to this fear, it wil keep you from stepping out to try new things in life.
• They may cause you to doubt your own abilities to learn new things. If you give in to this doubt, it will keep you from reaching out to attempt things that are beyond your ability.

Today’s Challenge:
Go against these fears and doubts that attack your mind and step out of your comfort zone. This is a great step forward towards conquering the fears and doubts that are holding you back.

When you do things every day that take your outside your comfort zone you are creating a path towards miracles in your life.

Of course these uncomfortable decisions you make every day are made with one focus. Your decisions and actions are strategically designed to take you closer to your goals and dreams.

Today’s Question:
Are your daily decisions and habits taking you closer to your goals and dreams?
If not, what are you going to do about it today?

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club

It is not too late to get involved with this challenge. Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Blog Click on the menu at the top that says “Affirmation Challenge” to get involved. It will be one of the best decisions of your life.

However, this was never something I wanted to do. As I grew up, I would always say

“Dad is the salesman, not me”. As much as I admired my father, I had no desire to follow in his footsteps as far as career is concerned.

My Life Purpose.
Yet I went off to the mission field in Mexico where I spent close to thirty great years working with people, speaking, holding seminars, participating in seminars, writing and teaching and training one on one. I mention all of this to say that in a nutshell I was selling (except I did not realize it).

No, I was not selling a product in exchange for money. I was changing lives through teaching and training. I was selling truths and principles that challenge people to change their mindsets, make strong decisions which resulted in transformed lives.

After my parent’s deaths life threw me some more curves which involved more losses and I was faced with needing the make some drastic decisions.

I had three choices:

• I could go back to New Zealand and “retire” from the mission field. Not an option for me.
• I could visit churches to raise funds that would bring in the support to enable me to return to the mission field. This was not an option either. It would take another article or two to explain why, but for today let’s just say that this was not an option.
• I could start a business to support myself. This was the only valid option, even though the business world was an area of life I never thought I would enter. This would involve selling! Oh my!

What I had not understood is that the key to true sales is not manipulating people to make them feel obligated to buy something they never really wanted. No, real salesmanship is the result of focusing on changing people’s lives.

This is what today’s affirmation is all about:

This affirmation is No. #115 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

It was a great blessing to meet up with Bob Burg on Twitter just as he was publishing his 2nd Go Giver book – Go Giver’s Sell More.

This book transformed my thinking and perspective completely about selling. It took away the stigma that I had in my mind towards sales and sales persons. Go Giver’s Sell More is all about learning to give and to change people’s lives.

This is the key to a successful business and indeed a successful life.

The author of the affirmations that we are following in this series of articles, John Di Lemme is also an expert on closing sales. John has a book I fully recommend called 17 Highly Guarded Strategies To Close Every Sale – Guaranteed

Today’s Challenge:

• If you are a business owner, ask yourself this question: Am I in business to make money or to change people’s lives? (Guess which answer will REALLY make you successful?)
• Even if you do not own a business here is a question to ask yourself: Am I seeking my own happiness in life or am I seeking to touch and change the lives of others? (Guess which answer will REALLY make YOU happy?)

Resource:
Every affirmation in this 210 Day Affirmation Challenge is authored by John Di Lemme, founder of the ” title = “Lifestyle Freedom Club” target = “blank”>Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

Follow Bob Burg on Twitter here

Here are some facts:
Most people who make New Year resolutions don’t even get to the end of January before they have broken them. Why?

Because:
When the clock strikes 12 midnight on December 31st, 2010, nothing magical happens.

Perhaps at the time you may be with a group of friends celebrating, and there is a corporate atmosphere of expectancy created by the emotion of the moment. But when you go home, reality starts to set in.

You see the same surroundings you left before going to the party. The same challenges and obstacles are awaiting your solution. They did not magically go away and clear the path for you to fulfill your new resolution

Here is the reality:
The outcome of your 2011 will not be the result of any New Resolution you make on the night of December 31st, 2010.

The outcome of your 2011 will be the result of your DAILY DECISIONS.

This is why I do not make New Years resolutions. Instead I make DAILY decisions.

Today’s challenge:
Every day is like a new page in your personal autobiography. YOU write on this page with your thoughts, your words and your actions (or lack of actions).

What are you planning to write on your page today?
(Hint: if you do not plan to write anything on today’s page, the world’s negative default will take you will it. Then your today will be filled with nothing but lack of results, fear and wishes).

• Take charge of your day TODAY.
• Take charge of 2011 NOW.
• Make a decision NOW to make deliberate decisions EVERY day to direct your thoughts, words and actions towards the achievement of your goals and dreams.

  Make 2011 your best year yet!

  

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