Actually all 4 of these hindrances can be summarized with word, and that word is fear.

Let’s think about it for a second:

What creates doubt in your mind? Fear.
Fear will make you doubt any decisions you make. Fear will make you doubt your ability to face a challenge and win or to carry out a task you have never done before.

What causes you to procrastinate? Fear.
You may fear that you may the wrong choice, so you delay taking action on your decision “just to make sure that the decision was the right one”. You may fear that that action you plan on taking may offend someone or cause a reaction you may fear facing. You get the picture right?

What causes you to have low self-belief? Here is a question for you:
Which matters more to you, what others think about you? Or what you have in your heart (your dreams and goals in life).

Yes, outside of God Himself, the only person who really knows what is in your heart is YOU. (And I DO highly recommend seeking God’s help and support in everything you do in life, and planting your faith first and foremost in Him and His Son).

The affirmation from the Lifestyle Freedom Club’s 210 Day Affirmation Challenge that we are looking at today is affirmation #136:

(See the foot of this article for more details about this challenge).

This affirmation addresses all four of these negative hindrances, which we have already determined may actually be summed up in one word – FEAR.

Today’s Challenge:
Take some time to reflect on your daily habits and ask yourself these questions:

• Is fear driving my life in any area?
• How many of these four attitudes are affecting my life and in which areas?
• What do I plan to do about it?

Now take your journal, note or sheet of paper where you have written down today’s affirmation and declare it 5 times with a bold, strong voice.

Then declare it 7 times, in fact if you dare, continue to declare it until you sense a change in your present state. Do you feel bolder? More sure of yourself.

Good. Now take the action you wrote down in response to the question above: What do I plan to do about it?

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!

Here is a possibility to consider. While you are waiting for your breakthrough, your breakthrough may well be waiting for you! – to be ready!

Here is a question for you:
Have you been preparing for your breakthrough?

Mm, this question may have you thinking. Good.

Now here is a question that you may be asking:

Just how DOES one prepare for a breakthrough? Ah, that is a great question.

Here are three top things you can do (and should be doing) every day that will guarantee to put you in a position to receive your breakthrough.

1. Develop a daily habit of personal development.
The first foundation to build into your life that will empower you to achieve your dreams is a daily disciplined habit of training your brain to focus on the positive.

You will achieve this by making sure that you feed your mind with positive, inspirational words every day.

This is why it is so necessary to have a deliberate, disciplined plan of reading and listening to good inspirational teachings every day.

Remember in the last article we talked about feeding your mind. Every word you read, listen to, think and act on is feeding your mind.

Make sure that what you are feeding your mind with WILL prepare you to receive the breakthrough that you desire to see in your life.

2. Have you discovered your WHY?
What is your why? This is also known as your life purpose. You were born onto this earth for a purpose.

The greatest discovery you will ever make in this life is the discovery of your WHY. (If you have not yet ordered your free CD Find Your Why Now, do it now!

3. Make a plan and follow your plan.
Once you have discovered your life purpose, create a plan of action that you can follow to achieve your why. Then TAKE ACTION . Follow your plan, taking one step every day.

Let’s suppose you have decided to take a vacation in Yellowstone Park.

Would you start driving without a map? I am sure you would not.

Would you get out your map, plan your journey and then file your plan and forget about it? Of course not. That would not get you to your destination right?

In order to arrive at your dream vacation (Yellowstone Park) you will:
Plan your trip and then follow your plan (map), right?

In the same way, once you find your WHY (your destination), you need to create your plan and then take ACTION. Follow your plan and then you WILL soon be ready for your breakthrough!

How can I be so sure of that? Because, if you are following these 3 steps you are preparing for your breakthrough!

Now you can confidently make the declaration which is affirmation #120 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge which is:

Today’s Challenge:

• Are you ready for the Champion Breakthrough?
• Have you been diligently following these three steps every day.
• Take some time to look at your daily schedule and may any adjustments necessary to ensure that you ARE preparing for your breakthrough every day.

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

If you are not involved in this challenge, it is not too late to start. Go now to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge”.

If you have subscribed to most any online marketer’s mailing list it probably won’t be long before you will be offered a product that comes promising some form of instant success.

But is this REALLY possible?

I have been reading (well scanning) many of these emails for several years now and from my observation there is one common denominator. Anyone who appears to have suddenly arrived on the success did not actually get there overnight.

There were many many hours, months and even years of trial and error, failures and all of the lessons that were learned during this long building process, built the foundation for this “sudden” success.

Today is Day 51 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge, and today’s affirmation is about building the foundation:

Success for you is when you are actually achieving your life purpose and dreams (your WHY).

This affirmation talks about achieving your why NOW, but it also gives you the key to being able to achieve it NOW.

The key is to build the foundation, and then the house CAN go up fast.

One of the very essential ingredients in the foundation of your house of success is your daily learning program. Of course there is a lot of spontaneous learning experience in our daily lives as we encounter new things, ask questions and learn from the answers.

Interlude: Here’s an interesting question for you:
Do you know who would have been one of the world’s greatest question askers? In fact this person started asking questions practically as soon as they could talk. When the response received was “I don’t know”, this person replied: “why don’t you know?”.

(See the answer at the end of this article

Along with the spontaneous learning experiences you enjoy every day, when you plan and follow a strategic daily learning program the foundation for your “house of success” will be strong. Then “overnight success” could happen in your life too. BUT the foundation must be in place.

Two Top Ingredients of a Strategic Daily Learning Program

• Read, listen ond watch a material that show you how to increase your skills in your chosen field of interest and business.
• Books, audio and videos that will help you to learn more about how to learn and how to develop and train your brain for success.

  There is a great variety of material available that will teach you about accelerated learning techniques, speed reading e (download Kris Madden’s free ebook here) and related topics.

  There is also a LOT of very valuable material available to motivate and challenge you to train your brain for success.

  This includes biographies and autobiographies of highly success men and women (such as the question asker: Thomas Edison), magazines (for example The Success Magazine – which also comes with a monthly CD), audios and videos to purchase and/or download. Start with a collection of FREE downloadable audios and videos here.

This is today’s affirmation AND today’s challenge.

• Create for yourself a strategic daily program of learning.
• Follow your plan every day

Champions are constantly learning, constantly training and constantly taking new steps to new heights. That why they are champions. And I know that you –

Every word you speak.
Every word you think.
Every word you hear.

Every word you allow to enter into your mind will influence your life.

• Your words are your seed.
• Your inner (subconscious) mind and heart are the ground where the seed is planted.
• The harvest is your future.

In the last article (What Affirmations Can Do You) we considered the negative influence that this world has on us all. There are thousands of times more negative words than there are positive.

So now the challenge for you is to focus on deliberately sowing POSITIVE words.

One of the best ways to achieve this is by deliberately making daily affirmations.

Daily diligent affirmations WILL change your life.

Why?

Because your daily affirmations are positive seeds that you are sowing into your life.

And, when you sow a seed it will grow, especially when it is sown into good ground.

Today I have a challenge for you!

Are you ready to change your life?
Are you prepared to pay the price?

What is the price?

• Diligence, discipline and determination to declare positive affirmations over your life that will sow GOOD seeds into your future.
• A receptive heart that will BELIEVE what you are declaring.
• A plan of action and diligent daily action in accordance with your affirmations.

If you put this plan into action what results can you expect? Your life will change drastically and you will reach your dreams.

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You might have decided you want to lose weight or perhaps simply live healthier. In order to achieve this goal you will need to make some very definite adjustments to your present life style. They may be small adjustments or they may be major disruptions. This will depend on how drastic a change you need to make and just how determined you are to achieve your goal.

You might have decided you want to change your thoughts because you understand that this will change your life. This is going to take some focused discipline and determination.

Whatever firm decision of deliberate personal change you make, know this:

You have just made a declaration of war!

As you act on your decision you will find yourself needing to move out of your comfort zone. Your life needs to change and change is not something that most human beings REALLY like. Change can be a threat to your sense of security, even when you know that the change is necessary.

• You know you need to break out of your present lifestyle patterns in order to reach your dreams.
• You know that your present lifestyle patterns are actually destroying your dreams.
• You know that you really don’t want to still be where you are now in 5 or 10 years time.

The three enemies that will try to stop you:

• You will still find your inner self putting up a fight.
• You will probably find some naysayers around you critising or scoffing at your effort.
• There is a universal enemy out doing his best to pull everyone down to destruction.

We find Jesus talking about this in John 10:10 (International Version) “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”.

This enemy is behind those negative thoughts, the negative words you hear and speak and anything else that is lanzed at you with the intention of destroying your dreams, your health and your life.

Are you prepared for war?

So what will it take to evict the enemy and win this war?

1. A Definite decision.
You will need to make a your decision a definite one, no “maybes” or let’s see how I go. You need to decide once and for all: “This is what I want, this is what it will take to get there and this is what I am going to do”.

2. Determination and Discipline
It will take determination and discipline to change your diet, stop destructive habits and change your thinking patterns. Your resolution to change will include a decision that you are going to do what it takes and push against old habits.

3. Defined action plan.
To reach any destination, you need a map. If you are familiar with the area you are moving towards, this map may already in your mind. If you are moving into territory unknown to you, then you will carry a map to consult.

Create a written plan. Then break your plan down into a daily “to do list”. This plan will include one area of your thought life that you are focusing on making positive. It may be an area that you have spoken and thought many negative words about in the past. Now, you are focusing on turning this around.

Your map (plan) will focus on your destination. Your destination is success. You are planning to overcome all negative influences in your life and reach your success goals.

Always focus on your destination (your final goal). This will make it easier to exercise the determination and discipline you need evict any enemy you encounter as your move towards achieving your goal.

And don’t forget, you DO have the power to evict the enemy in your life  (if you choose to use it) because: