Successful living is positive living.

Positive Living is when you have health in your body, in your mind, in your finances and in your relationships.

This is why the affirmation we are looking at today is so important. Affirmation #144 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Affirmation Challenge declares:

I am living a Healthy Lifestyle

This is an excellent affirmation to memorize (and easy to memorize), and speak out loud to yourself every time you find yourself tempted to do something that would not have a positive result in your mind, your body, your relationships or your finances.

Remember that affirmations alone will not lead you to achieve your desired goals. You need to add ACTION to your words!

However you will know that action alone will not lead you to achieve your desired goals either – it takes strategic action and that is why it is so important to create a roadmap for yourself.

Your roadmap to your life of positive living (success).

Paint yourself a picture in your mind and then with diagrams, words or however you like to make notes. This picture will depict what positive living will look like for YOU.

You might include things like:

• how much you weight,
• how you feel when you wake up each day,
• how sharp your mind is,
• how you react to life situations,
• how you relate to your loved ones and friends,
• how free you are financially to decide what to do each day, and most important of all: what difference you can make in the lives of those around you and in the world.

Remember the greater the freedom you are living in the greater the freedom you will have to make a difference in the lives of others. Your health is a VERY important ingredient in your freedom.

This picture that you have painted for yourself (with words, diagrams of illustrations) is the beginning of your road map to success. Now you are beginning to visualize what positive living (success) looks like for YOUR life, you need to nurture this vision with your words. Words like:

I am living a Healthy Lifestyle

Today’s challenge:

• Take some time to visualize what the positive living lifestyle will look like in YOUR life. Write your vision down.
• Write down the areas in life where you would most like to make a difference. This is a heart issue. Follow your heart, and ask yourself: who’s life would I most like to change? This will more likely be a group of people rather than an individual.
• Write down some ideas of how you plan to make this picture a reality.

This is the beginning of your road map to your success.

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. Determine to stay faithful to this challenge, and I guarantee you it will change your life.

A part of this positive living lifestyle is achieving your life dreams and goals. However this enemy has some goals also.

He does not want you to achieve YOUR dreams because that will make a positive difference in this world and in the lives of many.

Hence this enemy is on a mission to discourage you and make you want to give up your positive focus and turn back to your old negative ways.

His actual target though is not actually your dreams and goals, but your MIND.
Yes, that’s right. If the enemy of your life can take over your mind (your thoughts), he has achieved his purpose. With the takeover of your mind, he has full control of your life.

This is why it is so important to continually train AND maintain the positive conditioning of your mind in the same way you train and maintain the condition of your body.

A part of your training is to learn to become alert to the enemy’s tactics and resist them.

You do this by using your God given power of decision. This is what the affirmation we are looking at today is all about.

Affirmation #141 of the 210 Day Affirmation Challenge created by John Di Lemme of the Lifestyle Freedom Club declares:

Your Distinct Advantage:
Now when you give your life to God and His Son Jesus Christ, you have the added advantage of knowing that His help is always near.

It is like a small child walking with the protection of his big brother. The little child may be determined to win and will possibly win some battles.

However when his big brother is with him, the enemies often don’t even bother to stop and fight. Instead they flee! They know that they are no match for big brother.

Hence the little brother could declare with even more confidence:

The enemy of your soul and your ability to enjoy positive living is no match for your Big Brother (Jesus Christ)

The preparation that we considered in the previous article consists of:

• Your decision to never retreat – no turning back.
• Your daily training program which is designed to strengthen your mind to stay focused on the positive side of life.
• Above all – your decision to walk with God (see the Gospel of John 1:10-12).

Today’s Challenge:

• Have you made a strong decision to enjoy the benefits of positive living?
• Are you determined to win (this means no turning back or no retreats).
• What are you doing each day to demonstrate these decisions?

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.

First, here’s a question for you: do you feel that you are living a wonderful, amazing life?

You might have some questions in your mind similar to these:

• How can my life be so wonderful with all of these problems that keep coming my way?
  
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• How can my life be positive when I am surrounded by so many negative circumstances?
  
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• How can my life be joyful when happiness always seems to evade me?

If any of these questions are familiar to you, you may find the affirmation we are looking at today rather daring or even impossible. But go ahead and declare it anyway. This is your first step towards making it a reality in your life.

This is affirmation #134 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

Does this sound like a dream life? Positive living in this negative world may be (or at least seem to be) a dream life, but it is a dream life that you CAN enjoy. Do you know you CAN experience a life that IS wonderful, amazing and even remarkable.

How your life can always be wonderful and amazing no matter what challenges you may face.
The word amazing also implies adventure, and adventure implies exploring and conquering new territory (and challenges). It all starts with what you allow to reside in your mind. Yes, the first step is to take control of your life and that begins with taking responsibility.

Certainly there ARE things in this life that are outside of our control, but more things are INSIDE your control than you may realize.

First: Why do we place so much emphasis on your words – thought or spoken? What are they so important. Do you know that your words (yes your thoughts included) create an atmosphere around your life.

• Yes, everything that you allow to enter and reside in your mind.
• Everything that you repeat in your mind.
• Everything that you repeat with your mouth.

All of these things involve WORDS, and it is the words that YOU think, speak and allow to reside in your mind that set the atmosphere around your life.

It is the atmosphere that surrounds your life that attracts either positive things or negative things (people, opportunities, situations, solutions). And remember, YOU control this atmosphere, by the words you allow to reside in your mind and come out of your mouth.

Now I know you may have heard this thousands of times before:

But it is true.
The first step towards taking control of your life, is to take control of your mind (your thoughts).

The second step is to develop a daily habit of training and strengthening your mind, thoughts and focus to stay on positive, solution finding, creative words.

You do this by reading, listening to and watching positive inspirational teaching. Watching inspiration movies that challenge you such as Facing the Giants or even that very popular movie It’s a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition) are a great way to spend your relaxation time.

When you are relaxing, your mind is at ease and more open to receive what you are watching. It is imperative that you spend your leisure time receiving positive, inspirational images and words into your mind.

Avoid allowing your mind to stay on anything that is negative. It takes effort, but determine to always meditate on the positive. (Anything that you allow your mind to go over and over or rehearse is an act of meditation. Meditation is “thinking through” or “dwelling on” a situation or words spoken).

Today’s Challenge:

• Am I taking full responsibility for my life?
• Is there any area of my life where I am still playing the blame game? (Take a few moments to think about this one honestly.
• What steps can I take today to ensure that the direction of my life is pointed towards fulfilling my goals, dreams and destiny?

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 the best decision you make today!

You may be asking: If I was born a champion, how come I am not winning? Why do I not even feel like a champion? That’s a very good question. If you have read John Di Lemme’s little powerful book Champions Are Born, Losers Are Made you will know the answer to this question.

The Top Three Facts About Your Life And Destiny

1. You WERE born a champion.
The fact that you are here on this earth, speaking means that you won your first race against millions of sperms. You were born to be a winner! This is a biological fact!

2. You grew up in a very negative world.
You may have great parents and a loving family, or perhaps you grew up in an environment where there was only one parent or none at all.

Whichever of these describes your life so far, there is one thing we can be sure of. You grew up surrounded by a HUGE percentage of negative words, attitudes and events. This world is full of it.

• Turn on the television and what do you hear? Negative news, negative programs and a few positive ones right?
• Go to work and listen to the conversations of some of your co-workers and what do you hear? Complaints, gossip, negative comments and a few positive conversations right?
• Go to the store and you will likely overhear (whether you want to or not) a conversation between a parent (or guardian) and a child that is positive? No, more than likely it will be a very negative conversation with lots of emotion included.

All of these negative influences may well have compounded in your life to stifle, crush or even put out that positive spark with which you were born.

Am I saying that this world is 100% negative? No, there IS still a positive influence in this world. And guess what? This brings me to fact number 3.

3. You were born to make a POSITIVE difference in this world.
Yes, you were born to live in the positive realm of life, and to be a positive influence in this world.

• You were born to demonstrate to this world by your life, that positive living IS possible.
• You were born to develop as a champion with a vision to succeed, and an ability to achieve all that you find in your heart to do.
• You were born to live in abundance.

Getting back on track
Step 1: Ok, you may or may not consider this first step, but here is my secret: Step 1 is to return to your Creator, through His Son Jesus Christ. His purpose for your life is that you live life in abundance! (John 10:10).

I know of no other way, than to live in a relationship with Him. (I am not talking about religion – I AM talking about relationship).

Step 2: Retrain your mind to think in the positive realm. The apostle Paul called this exercise “renewing your mind” (See Romans 12:2).

You do this by:

• Creating and following a habit of reading positive inspirational teachings every day (including the Bible),
• Listening to positive inspirational teaching and
• Training your mind to meditate on you are reading and listening to instead of all of the negative things you hear and see during the course of your day.

Step 3 Apply and share what you are learning.
As you take time daily to read and listen to good inspirational material, write down what stands out to you in your journal.

Look for ways to apply and to share what you are learning during your daily activities. You are beginning to make a difference in the lives of those around you as you share the positive lessons you are learning.

This is the beginning of an adventure of living in the positive realm, and of your journey of discovering and reaching your destiny.

Always remember:

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

I recently read this book, and highly recommend it: Personal Development God’s Way

• A warrior will fight to defend his or her cause – or
• A warrior will fight to extend his or her cause.

Why do you have to fight to extend or defend your WHY? There is an enemy in this world. This enemy also has a purpose, a very negative purpose. His purpose is to destroy you and your dreams.

This series of articles entitled “Affirmation Challenge”, indeed this entire blog is dedicated to equipping you to fight to extend and to defend your life purpose and your dreams.

How to release your creativity.
Have you noticed that when you are under a lot of stress and your mind is full of negative words that you are not thinking creatively? This is because negative thinking and creative thinking do not mix.

How to turn your mind towards creative thinking:

• If you facing a stressful situation, stop and take a deep breath and refocus your mind.
• Now start to draw from the wealth of positive affirmations and thoughts that you have been archiving in your subconscious mind every day. (You have been doing this with your affirmations, reading motivational books and articles and listening to good motivational teaching every day).
• Once you start focusing on these positive thoughts, you will find your mind beginning to look for positive solutions to your situation. Your mind is not on the creative thinking path.

How to set the atmosphere in your life for miracles.
The exercise that you did above to free your mind to think creatively will also create an atmosphere in your life for miracles.
The more you discipline your mind to focus on the positive areas of life every day, the more you are creating the atmosphere for miracles to happen.

In today’s article we analyzed affirmation #130 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge that I am involved in and blogging about.

Affirmation #130 is a declaration of the three main headlines of this article:

When you do all of this, your life will be constantly changing positively.

Today’s Challenge:

• Make a decision to apply the principles suggested in this article to your life today.
• Discipline your mind to follow these suggestions every day, and you will soon notice a difference in your life.
• Do this every day and you will be creating an atmosphere in your life for miracles to happen.
• Now, begin to EXPECT miracles to happen in your life! When you expect something to happen, it means you are also focused on this thing. You are setting the stage for it to happen!

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 the best decision you make today!

Note: The slides I have created for this series of articles that follow the 210 Day Affirmation Challenge were created for my own use. I have made these available to you to give you an idea of what YOU can do for your own use. You of course will use your OWN photos.