Daily affirmations are essential. Affirmations are positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts. When you repeat them often and believe in them, you can start to make positive changes.

Success starts from the mind- by thinking and telling yourself you can achieve something makes that thing possible. I know, telling yourself how awesome you are can seem bizarre, but if that’s all you’re doing, there are probably more effective ways to go about it. And if you’re a skeptic, it doesn’t hurt to understand how and why positive affirmations became so popular. And yes, there is genuine theory and a fair amount of neuroscience behind this practice.

Positive affirmations require regular practice if you want to make lasting, long-term changes to your worldview and the way to think and feel. The good news is that positive affirmations’ approach and popularity are based on widely accepted and well-established psychological theory.