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.

No, true success is being able to do what you want, when you want to do it, with whom you want to do it, for however long you want to do it. (quoted from John Di Lemme).

Here is a secret: You will not be able to reach this lifestyle without applying some focus, discipline and diligence to the pursuit of your dreams.

Well, this should not really be a secret, but if you look around you and see so many people chasing their fairy tale dreams (for example: success the easy way – win the lottery), you would think that the genuine way was a secret.

Hindrances to Positive Living:
The biggest hindrance to living in the positive realm where faith rules is FEAR.

Fear very often reveals itself with excuses. This is why today’s affirmation (which is #119 of John Di Lemme’s 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge is so important.

When you repeat this affirmation, you are also making a decision to look fear in the face and resist it.

• Excuses justify fear, but in reality they reveal that you are more focused on fear than on faith.
• Fear hides behind excuses.
• Your excuses may seem logical and valid, but stop and analyze them and you will see that they are fear in disguise.

The more you resist a negative voice, the less it will bother you. This will certainly happen when you choose to resist the negative voice by focusing on the positive voice.

This is the strategy of displacement, and is in my experience the most effective way of running the negative thoughts, words and mindset out of your life.

Focus on faith, on positive words and thoughts and there is no room for the negative fear thoughts.

The attitudes and thoughts that you feed with words are the ones that become strong in your life.

You choose which attitudes and thoughts to feed (by agreeing with them, repeating them and living them).

Feed your mind and brain with thoughts and words of faith and your attitudes and mindset will become strong in faith. You will tend to look at obstacles and problems with solution seeking glasses. You are learning to live in the positive realm and success is within your grasp.

Feed your mind and brain with thoughts and words of fear and you will find yourself running from obstacles, fearing challenges and constantly making excuses.

Today’s Challenge:

• Make a decision to become alert to any excuses you may unconsciously be making.
• Make a fresh decision to feed your mind every day with positive words, articles, books, recordings and videos. This is how you give your brain the right tools to enable you to focus on the positive, and consequently live in the positive realm.

  (Have you downloaded your free mp3s from Lifestyle Freedom Club yet?

The more you build yourself up in faith, the less fear will have a foothold in your life.

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”.

Fear is that hidden enemy that is ready to ambush you when you least expect it.

• Fear will paralyze you, making it difficult if not impossible to move out of your comfort zone and take action on your plans.
• Fear will stop you from turning your dreams into reality and leave you in the land of “I wish”.

How did fear become such a strong enemy in your life?

First, let’s answer the question: What is fear?

• Fear is a belief system.
• Fear is faith contaminated.
• Fear is faith in evil, faith in the worst that could happen.

How did your belief systems get built?
Everything that you hear, read, see, touch, taste and smell makes an impact on your life. Some things make a small impact, sometimes it may be so small that it is unnoticeable. Some things make a large impact on you.

Every impact or impression that touched your life through one of your 5 senses, which are like gates, was processed in your mind. You may a decision and took action on every one of those impressions.

Those decisions and actions went into your subconscious mind to build your belief system.

Many of those decisions you made not just with thoughts, but they were accompanied by emotions. The more passionate the decision, the stronger the addition to your belief system.

• A positive decision accompanied by emotion or passion builds faith into your life.
• A negative decision accompanied by emotion or passion builds fear into your life.

Do you have any control over this building process?
Absolutely! First let’s take a look at an interesting verse found in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible.

This verse is actually the very foundation for much of the teaching that is known as the Law of Attraction today, as well as being the foundation for faith teaching.

If you go back to the original language that Solomon used to write this statement, you will find that the word “think” actually means the gatekeeper! Interesting no?

What does this mean for you?
This means that your thoughts are the gatekeeper of your life.

• With your thoughts you decide what impact those impressions that touch your life will have on your emotions.
• With your thoughts you shield or protect your emotions AND in the process you protect your belief system.
• With your thoughts you decide whether you want to build a belief system of faith or one of fear.

What are thoughts? They are words!

Today is Day 58 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge. Today’s affirmation is all about conquering fear with your words.

You can retrain your thought process by deliberately speaking out positive words of faith. Because it is your voice speaking those words, your gatekeeper will allow those words to enter into your subconscious mind.

Positive words will displace all the negative words that may be there. Yes, you CAN terminate fear from your life!

Speak this out today AND take action. Make sure that your words ARE designed to terminate fear in your life NOW.

This will release you to step out and take the action you really want to take because that paralyzing force called fear is being terminated in your life.

You can do it! You have the control. Take it! Start speaking out those words that will have fear crying out SOS as it is terminated from your life.

Do visit the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge? Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog right now, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge” and get started NOW.

Get involved in this challenge. It is never too late. Your 210 days can start today, and this will help you immensely to get started on your journey to retrain your thoughts and terminate fear in your life. My day in this challenge is day 116, and I can assure you that it will challenge and change your life.

Thanks to aheram on Flickr for the image used in the slide.

Miracles happen within an atmosphere of faith. They cannot manifest in an atmosphere of fear.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God make this very clear in His life on this earth. He did not perform miracles in His hometown, in fact he COULD NOT! Why? Because there was no faith there!

Mark 6:5,6 in the New Testament of the Bible.

And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
And He marveled because of their unbelief. English Standard Translation of the Bible.

What builds (or destroys) faith in your life?
Your words, thought or spoken create your belief (or doubt) system. This means that every word you speak either builds or destroys your belief system.

Are your words building up your faith or creating doubts in your mind and life?

Today is Day 31 of following the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge.

Today’s affirmation reveals the first step towards a strategy for miracles.

What does the word “orchestrate” mean?
The dictionary gives words such as “mastermind, direct, organize, engineer”.

These words all speak of strategy right?

How then can you apply this to your life?

Let’s say one of your dreams is to build an orphanage in Haiti, or take a train trip across Canada.

How would you organize what you say and what you think?
To begin with, you would NOT use the words: hope, if,

I hope I can (build an orphanage) one day. Or I hope to (build an orphanage).
If I am make enough money I will (take a trip).

Instead you would say:
I am building this successful business now that is funding my orphanage in Haiti. You might only have $5.00 saved from your business so far, thats fine. It is the mustard seed faith that grows into large trees.

I am taking a trip across Canada in the winter next year. I love the snow.

Do you see the difference?

Thought provoking questions.

Stop and think about what you are saying (and thinking).

• Is there any strategy in what you are declaring and thinking?
  (Your actions will always follow what you are thinking and saying).
• Are you organized in your mind? (That’s a huge question!)
• Are your thoughts and words directing your path towards receiving miracles?
  (You think first, then ACT. Your actions are the second step in the strategy for miracles).
• Are they creating the atmosphere for miracles?
• Do you have a strategy that is bringing miracles into your life?

An excellent way to help you to create that strategy and build your faith so you can attract the miracles you are expecting is to submit to the discipline of a daily affirmation plan.

Are you involved in the 210 Day Lifestyle Freedom Club Affirmation Challenge? I am on day 88 of this challenge today, and my experience with submitting to such a daily discipline DOES help you to organize and direct your thoughts.

You are filling your mind with positive words as your brain hears your own voice repeating them consistently. This builds your faith and makes you alert to opportunities that will lead you to achieving your dreams.

Go to the Lifestyle Freedom Club Blog right now, then click on the menu at the top that says: “Affirmation Challenge” and get started NOW.

Your life will never be the same. You owe it to yourself because:

This one is a series of clips from his conferences. It is packed with great quotes and thought provokers about the power of mindset. You might have to watch it more than once to catch some of the nuggets.

What stands out the most for you today? Please share in the comment section below.

Here is what stood out to me:

• Your imagination is going on 24 hours a day – so monitor your thoughts.
• Make your life a playground of positive thoughts (and consequently experiences)
• Are you giver or a taker?
• You have to plant a seed before you can ever expect to have a harvest.
• Your self images is is damaged because it is based on your belief system. Your belief system was created by the things you heard around you as you grew up. Get rid of that stuff and be courageous enough to challenge the new you that will emerge.
• In relationships – don’t look for the perfect person – learn to love perfectly the person you have.
• All we have is a present moment – (use it wisely and to the full).

Again, please share what stands out to you in the comment section below.