“You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich”. -Jim Carrey
“The number one factor for resilience—for actually getting through hard things—is self-efficacy. Which is basically the belief that you can handle whatever you’re going through…Positive thinking while you’re sitting on the couch scrolling cat videos is useless. In fact, it’s probably keeping you on that couch longer. But positive thinking mid-struggle, when everything in you wants to quit? That’s when it can be the difference between pushing through and giving up.”
Positive affirmations are great. And research shows that they can help you get through times when you’re struggling.
But their power lies in the fact that you’re first actually trying to do something hard to then affirm.
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