The answer may be already settled in your life, that is excellent. However, here is a secret I discovered across the years in Mexico.

Not everyone understands that THEY are responsible for achieving their why. Really!! Yes really.

Today’s affirmation is short yet powerful. This is Day 77 of this great 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

What is a CEO?

• The CEO is the one who is responsible for the direction of a company.
• The CEO is responsible for the success or failure of a company.
• The CEO has the vision for the company.
• The CEO is the only one who can impart this vision to others (when it is just getting started).
• The destiny of the company depends largely on the abilities or lack of abilities of the CEO to lead the company to fulfill its mission statement or purpose.

That is a huge responsibility right? And do you know this is EXACTLY the responsibility that you have with your WHY. Your WHY is like the company. You are the CEO.

YOU are responsible for achieving your WHY. YOU are the one who has the vision for your life purpose (your WHY).

• I vividly remember writing the first booklet (Templos de Dios).
• I was the only one at the time who could “see” where I was going.
• I had the vision. I had to do the spade work.
• I was the writer, the cartoonist, the printer and the publisher of the first edition, and it was not a five minute PLR effort! It took 6 months to develop and perfect. (Later volumes were completed in much less time because the first edition had set the direction).

THEN once it was visible and tangible, others around me caught the vision, and came to help as thousands of copies were printed and sent out to Mexico and Central America.

The success or failure of achieving your WHY depends on YOU.
Sadly too many people come to the end of their lives with the seed of their WHY’s still in their hearts. The seed never grew. They did not understand, or perhaps they did not accept the responsibility that it was THEY who were to nurture that seed and make it grow. It was their responsibility to achieve their why.

Your why is not a day dream. It does not belong in the land of wishing.
Your why is YOUR responsibility to accept, train for it and achieve it.

Today’s challenge:
Have you accepted the position of CEO of your WHY?
Have you accepted this responsibility?

Resource:

Today we are adding the following affirmation:

This declaration may well raise some questions in your mind.

• Is health a choice?
• Do my words really affect my health?
• How much control do I REALLY have over my state of health?

A little background from me:
After suffering a car accident in Mexico 5 years ago, I began to take a great interest in all of the documentaries, discussions and videos I could find about the brain.

I had already been teaching on many areas of motivation during the 25 years in Mexico. A study on imaginations in the Bible plus the book of Proverbs had opened my eyes to many truths about the power of positive and negative words and thoughts.

Now what I was learning from these scientific programs of discussions with researchers, doctors and scientists was deepening my understanding of these topics.

Discovery
All of the researchers and scientists I have listened closely to are in agreement concerning a few simple facts:

• There IS a definite relationship between the state of our imaginations and the state of our health. This includes our ability to recover from illness. (See resource below – Getting Well Again).
  
  
• Strong negative words and imagery DO contribute to provoking illness.
  
  
• Strong POSITIVE words and imagery DO contribute to staying well and getting well.

Dr Caroline Leaf, author of “Who Switched Off My Brain?” shows how negative thoughts actually send toxic chemicals to various parts of the body. Positive thoughts send non toxic chemicals which will support a normal healthy body. Incredible right?

Conclusion:
Can positive affirmations actually contribute to improving and maintaining your body in health?

The answer is a resounding YES!

So take today’s affirmation:

and declare it with STRONG CONFIDENCE.

Your brain will respond by sending out positive chemicals to your body.

And remember:

What does this mean to you?
You can’t expect good results if you are affirming “I am getting healthier by the second” with a coke or cake in your hand. (You get the picture right?)

So speak words of health PLUS eat right – exercise right – sleep right – dream right – act right and you WILL get healthier by the second.

And always remember:

Today is Day 5 / Tomorrow is: Day 6 Driving Out Indecision

Get involved in this Affirmation Challenge NOW:
210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge, then click on the menu at the top “Affirmation Challenge”.

Resources:
Who Switched Off My Brain? Revised: Controlling Toxic Thoughts and Emotions by Dr Caroline Leaf

Getting Well Again – a Step-By-Step, Self-help Guide to Overcoming Cancer for Patients and Their Families

Charlie Rose – Charlie Rose Brain Series Episode One (October 29, 2009)

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Today I have a real life story, which is in fact my own story – at least some of it (I promised to share in this story in the previous article Your Why and Your Dreams)

My Story:
Like millions of other folk on this planet, I have always loved the Disney cartoons. However I was not just interested in watching them. I also loved to copy the characters and soon found that I had some talent in this cartooning.

My parents encouraged and supported me in this pursuit and they had a cartoon course sent out from the USA at a price that was a sacrifice for them at the time. I am very blessed to have had very supportive parents. I still have that course today.

With help of this cartoon course, some of the Walter Foster books and lots of practice my drawings came to life. I loved what I was doing and began to dream of one day being a cartoonist in the Disney studios.

This dream was not a passing one, but persisted for several years, each year getting stronger.

I discovered my why.
Then one day while at a youth meeting, I discovered my WHY (or “my calling”). As the speaker delivered his message, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was called to the mission field.

That would mean leaving everything else behind, at least that was my understanding at the time. However, I was so sure that this was the path set out for my life that nothing else mattered.

I left my dream and set out to pursue my WHY:
So I set out to the mission field (in Mexico), leaving behind any dream to become a cartoonist.

At the USA/Mexico border, I met a missionary who had been in Mexico over 20 years. This gentleman gave me some very valuable advice.

Find a need and fulfill it and you will succeed.

(This is a valuable key that will lead you to succeed in any area of life).

The glaringly obvious gap in the churches at that time was the lack of attention given to the children. So I began by working directly with children. That led to looking for resources for them but there was very little children’s literature available in the Christian Bookstores (this was in 1978).

When I had taught Sunday School back in New Zealand, one of my projects was to create a children’s magazine. That led to creating worksheets for them with puzzles and quizzes. These worksheets became so popular that a large church in town asked permission to reproduce them for their children.

Now in Mexico when I saw that very little children’s literature available, I sat down to write AND draw.

A series of booklets entitled “Templos Vivientes” or “God’s Templos” was born.

These were cartoon illustrated booklets which were sent out to Mexico and Central America in large quantities.

My dream fulfilled:
No, I did not become a cartoonist in the Disney Studios, but YES I did become a cartoonist on the mission field.

My WHY did NOT conflict with my dreams.
The dream was simply tweaked on the way to fulfilling my WHY (my call or purpose) and as far as I am concerned my dream was fulfilled, and I sense there is still more to come.

So to sum up, here are:
Three steps that WILL lead you to success (including the fulfillment of your dreams):

• Find you WHY.
• Go after your WHY.
• Within the scope of your WHY, find a need and fulfill it.

Go after YOUR why, because: