55 Dream and Goal Affirmations

Today’s Thought

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
~ Lao-tzu

Without goals and dreams, we quickly become victims of the status quo. We often use goals and dreams interchangeably. For me, the distinction is that a dream is the big vision and goals are the milestones that build the dream. Dreams are summit of the mountain and goals are the footholds along the way.

It is my belief that we can be, do, or have anything we want in life, if we are committed enough to believe and take action.

Accomplishing goals and dreams requires clarity of purpose (Napoleon Hill called this a burning desire), focus, and perseverance. There are few things in life more in the wheelhouse for affirmations.

What is your vision and what your steps, commitments, and milestones to get there? These affirmations are written to support you in that quest. There are a few that are similar to help you find the one with the right wording for you.

1. When my why is strong enough, my how always appears.
2. I follow my bliss. I experience my bliss. I become my bliss.
3. Today I am absolutely committed to being the person I came to the planet to be!
4. I am the engine of my dreams. My dreams never give up on me and I never give up on them!
5. It is not the mountain I conquer, but myself. I am reaching for the top of the mountain and my day in the sun is here!
6. My doubts become shadows in the sunlight of my determination.
7. Roadblocks are simply shortcuts to something better than I had planned!
8. I aspire to great things. One by one, I am achieving all of them!
9. Today I have a clear goal in mind and I am focused like a laser on accomplishing it!
10. My goal is my target and today I am on target!
11. Today I block out distractions and remain committed to my tasks!
12. When I set out to achieve something I eliminate all the negatives and naysayers and focus completely on my goal!
13. Everything that happens in my life perfectly prepares me to achieve my dreams!
14. When I really want my goals and dreams, my goals and dreams really want me!
15. Today I am at the top of my game. I have unstoppable momentum all the way to my dreams!
16. My life is a testament to the power of determination. When I go the extra mile success is always waiting.
17. Today I listen deeply to the goals and dreams that are speaking to me right now.
18. Today I pay attention to what is most important to me and I pursue that!
19. Today I live with purpose and my purpose lights my path to my goals and dreams!
20. I take committed action for my dreams. I am on the fast track to them right now!
21. Today my purpose is clear and my life path opens before me.
22. I CAN! I know I CAN! And today I AM!
23. Today the road to my goals has green lights as far as I can see.
24. Today I master my distractions and stay on purpose.
25. Today I am moving unstoppably like a tsunami toward my goals!
26. Today I am out of blocks fast and racing down the track towards my goals.
27. I am ready for whatever challenges life brings today. I am digging in and pushing forward towards my goals.
28. Empowered thoughts and determined action are manifesting my dreams faster than ever today!
29. I think power thoughts! I take power action! I achieve power results!
30. Today I am turning my goals into action and my actions into results.
31. My goals are right in front of me. Today I’m all about achieving them!
32. Today I master my distractions before they master me!
33. Today my believing becomes achieving, as my actions turn to results.
34. I am blowing by my limitations and achieving my most cherished dreams.
35. Today I am digging deep, reaching high, and achieving great things!
36. Today I leave my doubts in the dust and climb the mountain of my dreams!
37. Like a laser to a target, I am achieving every goal!
38. Today I am converting the energy of my dreams into the momentum of action!
39. Today I convert my potential into action and results!
40. Today I am pushing through my barriers and on to bigger and better things.
41. When I encounter a mountain in my life I put on my climbing gear and start climbing!
42. I push my limits and I achieve great things!
43. Every giant achievement was once a small dream acted upon. Today I act on my dreams!
44. Whatever I can unify in my mind and in my heart I can manifest in my world.
45. Today every “must do” gets me one step closer to living my goal!
46. Today I spend more energy on my goals than on my worries!
47. Today I release every attachment that holds me back from my goals!
48. Each and every day provides me with a perfect mix of sun and rain to grow my dreams into realities!
49. Today I am ready, willing, and able to follow my dreams!
50. I give myself completely to my purpose and my purpose gives me completely to success and happiness.
51. Today I remember that every situation is part of my purpose and my plan coming together perfectly!
52. I AM HERE. And if I am here, I am here for a reason.
53. I am a find-a-way, make-a-way person! Every dream is possible for me!
54. A new sense of purpose is totally permeating my being. I am upbeat and moving toward my goals.
55. Today and every day, all the pieces are falling together perfectly in my life.

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. Download a 17-minute audio recording containing many of these affirmations Attracting the Life You Want Affirmations.

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Your To Be List – The Affirmation Spot for Thursday October 20, 2011

Today’s Affirmation:

“I absorb knowledge like a sponge and retain it for use at the appropriate time.”
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Our society is built on getting things done. Productive action is an important ingredient to our success. The “To-Do List” is a staple of our productivity society.

We make these lists to remind us of the tasks we need to complete in a day, a week, or some other time period. Some people use them as a guide, while others meticulously check off each task as it is completed.

The super-organized among us are probably already creating their 2012 To-Do Lists. Nearly all of us are thinking about the things we “have to get done” in the next year.

Numerous motivational speakers and spiritual teachers have commented that we are human “beings” not human “doings”. This is commentary on our propensity to focus on the doing at the expense of the being.

Their goal is to remind us that we are here as surely TO BE as we are to do. They are suggesting an imbalance in our lives between doing and being. With our fast-paced, modern, rush, rush, rush society; who can argue?

The extreme answer to reducing your “doingness” is to sell your possessions and go live as a monk on a mountain top somewhere. You could then spend your entire life just being. That’s not a realistic or even appealing option for most of us.

So, how do you find a beingness/doingness balance in your life? How do you keep yourself reminded to “just be” or to become who you want TO BE?

Create a To-Be List. I know, I know, I see the paradox in suggesting a doing to improve your ability to be. Life is full of paradoxes.

Your To-Be List has two aspects:

1. Planned Beingness - these times can go right on your calendar along with your to-dos. They are planned times in your day or week where you plan to just be. Just being can mean meditating, sitting quietly, or brainstorming…you get to define what it means for you. There are just two rules. This time must be time away from your To-Do List activites. You’re not doing any of them or thinking about them. PLANNED BEINGNESS IS YOU TIME. Place this in your daily To-Do List or on your calendar. Plan your beingness.
2. Visionary Beingness- answers the question, “Who do I want TO BE a year from now?” A To-Do List enumerates the tasks you want to get done in the next year. Your To-Be List can enumerate the characteristics you want TO BE in the next year. These can be self-development goals, career goals, or personal characteristics. This is your list of things TO BE in the coming year. It’s an organized way to spell out who you want TO BE the same way you list what you need to do. Examples include the following.
   • By ______, I will BE less judgmental than I am now.
   • By ______, I will BE more courageous in following my dreams than I am now.
   • By ______, I will BE in a managerial role.
   • By ______, I will BE more at peace than I am today.
   • By ______, I will BE a more accomplished writer.
   • By ______, I will BE a more effective business owner.

Tips for Success:

• Make your To-Be List as important as your To-Do List.
• Use existing tools like your current electronic calendar or hard copy planner to create your To-Be List right along side your To-Do List.
• Make it part of your routine.
• Spend time each day reviewing your To-Be List just as you do your To-Do List.

By making time TO BE, you will experience greater peace and contentment. By envisioning who you want TO BE, you are focusing your mind and your efforts to create the circumstances, opportunities, and intention to make it so. Create an expectation that you will complete your T0-Be List the same way you complete your To-Do List and you will!

Let me take this opportunity to say thank you for reading this blog. I know your time is valuable and I am really working to bring you the best blog possible – one that adds real value to your life each day. Your readership makes it all worth it.

Please let me know what I can do to make it more empowering, thought-provoking, or meaningful for you. I do read every comment and email. If this blog is adding value to your life, please tell at least one friend about it! Thank you for your support.

Follow your bliss! Experience your bliss! Become your bliss!

Ray

Ray Davis is the Founder of The Affirmation Spot and focuses on empowering minds to think positively, achieve goals, and live dreams. He is author of the ebook The Power to Be You and the forthcoming The Power to Be You 2: 1001 Power Thoughts for Daily Life.

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Never Give Up on a Dream – The Affirmation Spot for Wednesday August 4, 2010

Today’s affirmation:

“Today I am ready to convert my perseverance into success.”

Quitting is the answer to your dilemma. You know you want to give up. So, do it. You have a dream, but it is just pie-in-the-sky nonsense. What are you thinking? Are you crazy?

Do you really believe you could be the next great childrens’ author. Are you really visualizing yourself sitting on Oprah’s couch discussing your latest best seller? YOU??? Come on! Get real. You’ve sent 20 manuscripts out and how many rejection letters? That’s right. 20.

And you, thinking you are the next great country music star. You’ve made five demo records and not one call back. You’ve been at this for three years now. When are you going to face reality?

Oh, and Mr. basketball, you have dreams of a major college scholarship and then the NBA? Yeah right! You play three minutes a game on your high school team. The coach barely knows your name. And you think you’re the next Michael Jordan? Face it, my friend, basketball is a dead end for you.

Do you ever have thoughts like these? Do you ever hear those around you say things like this because they “care about you”? There’s always someone around to shoot down your dreams, if you are not already doing it. In some cases, it’s even an expert – an editor, a coach, or record producer. I mean they know what they are talking about, right?

The next time you have these kinds of thoughts I want you remember the following.

His sophomore year in high school, Michael Jordan didn’t even know he was the next Michael Jordan.

He was cut from his high school basketball team. I don’t know if that high school basketball team was unbelievably talented or the coach just wasn’t a very good judge of ability. Can you imagine arguably the greatest basketball player ever cut from his basketball team? The coach was presumedly an expert.

Michael could have taken the expert’s word and given up. He could have taken up the vilolin or given up on school activities all together. Instead, he worked harder; became more determined. Three years later he was starting for one of the top college programs in the country and on his way to a Hall of Fame NBA career and six NBA championships.

What if Michael Jordan had accepted the judgment of an expert and quit? The man revitalized a sport, gave a city with a reputation for losing the opportunity to be champions, inspired millions of young athletes, and gave every fan a highlight film that will run in their minds forever.

Back in the 1920s there was an unknown cartoonist from the midwest shopping his idea for an animated cartoon featuring a mouse. Walt Disney made two cartoons featuring Mickey Mouse that were rejected by distributors. Then timing and adaptability intervened.

Disney latched on to the new sound technology in Hollywood and created a third Mickey Mouse film with sound called Steamboat Willie which debuted in New York on November 18, 1928.

The mouse and Walt went on to do quite well for themselves. A major media empire and the world’s number one tourist destination bear the name Disney because he believed in his idea and he did not stop at “no”.

Had Disney quit generations would have been deprived of the eternal childhood represented by Disney message.

A retired motel and restaurant owner in his 70s spent two years driving the country pitching his secret recipe for fried chicken to restaurant owners. The story goes that Harland Sanders heard no over 1000 times before someone finally said, “yes”.

Today Kentucky Fried Chicken is served in more than 80 countries around the world. Everyone knows about “The Colonel’s secret recipe.”

What is the common element here? Belief? Yes. Commitment. Sure. The real common element here is perserverence converted into success. These people pushed through their own doubts and the opinions of others to achieve their goals.

They also didn’t listen to the experts who said it couldn’t be done. The experts thought the train, the automobile, the airplane, radio, television, and the Internet would never succeed. Experts are always learned people about “what is”. They are entrenched in “what is”. Experts are weak at seeing what “can be.”

That takes a visionary. Find a visionary who believes in you and what you are trying to accomplish. That restaurant owner who finally said yes to Colonel Sanders was a visionary.

The world would have been worse off if any of these men had given up. What will the world be missing out on if you quit on your dream?

So how about it? Are you up for that 21st manuscript submission? Are you ready to make another demo and make this cut the one that gets noticed? Are you ready to give a little extra at practice today and let the coach really see what you can do?

If you are inspired to keep going, continue visualizing Oprah. If you are motivated to take Nashville by storm, keep seeing yourself accepting your award as newcomer of the year in country music. If you are ready to take the court with a new purpose and determination, then keep dreaming of the NBA.

Others are going to call you crazy. “They” called Jordan, Disney, and Sanders crazy too. “They” called the Wright Brothers and Edison and Leonardo DaVinci crazy.

You might have another bout of you calling yourself crazy. That’s normal. Just don’t give up on your talent, don’t give up on your passion, don’t give up on the promise of your dreams.

Start right now by restating your dream to the universe and your commitment to achieving it. I’d be honored if you began by leaving a comment on this blog.

Quitting is an answer. It is just not the right answer when it comes to your dreams.

Be peaceful Be prosperous

Ray

15 Greatness Affirmations and Original Quotes – The Affirmation Spot for Friday February 5, 2010

Today’s topic is greatness. You know you and everyone and everything around you is an absolute miracle. The odds that you are even be here against the astronomical possibilities otherwise confirms your status as a miracle.

Just to remind you; here are a few thoughts and affirmations to remind you of your greatness. Hope you find the one that sparks your greatness today! You ARE a one in a trillion miracle!

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1. Go ahead! Give in to your greatness!
2. Always Remember to see your greatness and help those around you see theirs!
3. The Prego Rule of Greatness: When you look for your greatness within; you find it because, “It’s in there!”
4. You think less of yourself than you should. Remember your greatness!
5. Your greatness is locked in a box called “Believing in Yourself”. You have the key!
6. Worry more about the false humility of denying your greatness rather than the vanity of just admitting to it! You’re amazing!
7. Today I am the Johnny Appleseed of greatness; the Paul Revere of possibility here to remind those around me who they truly are.
8. Today I release older lesser versions of myself and grow into my greatness!
9. I am a magnificent possibility headed for certain greatness!
10. My greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon me, but by the light that shines within me.
11. I believe in myself. I believe in my now. I believe in my future. I believe in my greatness!
12. I may not be perfect, but I have ALWAYS been great!
13. Today I thunder away at my doubts and weaknesses. As I do, they fade away and my greatness emerges!
14. It’s time for every person on this planet to embrace his or her greatness and pursue his or her dreams.
15. My weaknesses are invisible in the radiant light of my greatness!

Stay inspired!

Ray

2010 Affirmation

2010 is MY year! This is the year I break free! This is the year I break through! This is the year I break out!

Random Thoughts #13 – The Affirmation Spot for Monday January 25, 2010

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Sharing a few random thoughts and affirmations going through my mind this Monday.

• Failure is only final when you quit. Until that moment, you are a success in progress!
• The end of a dream is the end of one dream; not the end of dreaming.
• Monday is one-seventh of your life. Never write it off!
• Learning Affirmation: Today I pledge to learn from what I don’t understand rather than fearing it!
• Bliss Affirmation: As I follow my bliss, I find that my bliss starts chasing me!
• Let doubt run wild in your life! Doubt your fears. Doubt your limitations. Doubt your doubts. Just never doubt yourself!

Stay inspired!

Ray

2010 Affirmation

“2010 is MY year! This is the year I break free! This is the year I break through! This is the year I break out!”