My Tools Are Yours To Use 42

Hi Friends,

It’s time to stare down the third and final enemy of New Year Res­o­lu­tions.

Are you ready to put it down for good? Let’s begin…

This is the third enemy:

3. You don’t have the right tools to get you started

Stay­ing focused on your goals can some­times be chal­leng­ing. There are count­less dis­trac­tions and temp­ta­tions in life, all of which can put you on a detour, and leave you miles away from where you want to be.

Are you try­ing to lose weight?

“Hey that pecan pie in the fridge looks pretty tempting…”

Are you plan­ning to start a new hobby?

“My favorite show’s on tv, I’ll do i tomorrow…”

Are you deter­mined to give up drinking?

“It’s Happy Hour at the bar tonight, maybe I should treat myself one more time…”

*You need a set of tools or tech­niques to keep you focused, dis­ci­plined and determined.*

Some peo­ple use vision boards. Some write down their progress in jour­nals. Some form a pact with friends so they can check up on each other.

One of my favorite tools that I have now made into a daily rit­ual is affir­ma­tions.

Every morn­ing, with­out fail, I recite a list of affir­ma­tions out loud to myself.

It gives me a great start to my day, and it’s a con­stant reminder of the com­mit­ments I have made to myself.

Why don’t you give it a try?

I’ve put together a lit­tle affir­ma­tion toolkit for you. Below you’ll find a video and a PDF that I highly rec­om­mend you start using every day.

Watch the video first:

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Now, save and print out this PDF document:

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Down­load It Here

Once you’ve printed it out, add your own affir­ma­tions to it–the ones you com­mit­ted to doing yesterday.

Don’t for­get the com­mit­ment you made to yourself!

As long as you stay focused and deter­mined, you’ll be achiev­ing your goals in no time.

Remem­ber to start work­ing on your daily, weekly or monthly goals right away.

I’d love to hear from you. Send me a mes­sage in the com­ments sec­tion below, and tell me how you’re doing with your resolutions.

Remem­ber, just as you are com­mit­ted to your res­o­lu­tions, I’m com­mit­ted to help­ing you achieve them.

Lets take on 2010 together and make it the best year yet!

Sin­cerely,

Burt

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Joseph says

I really enjoyed your video but it is dif­fi­cult to view it in the morn­ing when the web takes time to open.Can you give it away?

Tania says

I loved it, very up lift­ing Thankyou

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Ioana (Spain) says

Dear Burt,
I’m rather new to your site and mate­ri­als (I just received this Christ­mas, on request, your Mind­Box CD’s, and enjoy­ing them a lot, btw), so, please apol­o­gize if I’m ask­ing some­thing you already addressed some­where before; when heal­ing, for instance the ener­gized water, should the other per­son know what you are doing, or is not nec­es­sary? I’m talk­ing about 2 years old daugh­ter here, with big sleep prob­lems, so, should I tell her, for instance, that this is a spe­cial water, who will help her sleep very well the whole night, or I can skip it? Thank you very much, and again, thank you so much for every­thing you do and are, I feel myself so blessed to have got to know you!
p.s. I find this last video very inspi­ra­tional, reminds me of Chris­t­ian Larson’s “opti­mists creed”, but more warm and famil­iar, a la Burt Gold­man… a big THANK YOU, and all the bless­ings be with you!

josi geloso says

dear burt…i ‘ve started my prac­tice since i recieved this affir­ma­tion video an has given me my inner peace back…if our thoughts don’t get fed reg­u­larly with good spir­i­tual infor­ma­tion we won’t expe­ri­ence what an how we are to be from within ourselves…this world tries to choke us with neg­a­tiv­ity an all the influ­ences that we get caught up in…so thanks so much for the musi­cal video along with pic­ture of nature to bring a pos­i­tiv­ity into our spirit heart an mind…love to all…josi***

Seetharam says

Its an excel­lent video Burt. It helps real­is­ing my own self. Thanks a lot for this.

Dallen Hall says

Dear Burt — Thank you for always keep­ing things in a down to earth pre­sen­ta­tion that never fails to lift me up. Despite the some­times pro­found con­tent, you always keep it real.

Your guid­ance is appre­ci­ated at a time in my life when I am going through some sig­nif­i­cant changes… and mak­ing a few too. This note to you is going to be the start of my jour­nal, for one. This par­tic­u­lar topic address­ing goals and res­o­lu­tions is timely for me. I’ve started some recent changes before and with­out con­sid­er­a­tion of the “New Year” per se. You help to make my efforts more effec­tive! I appre­ci­ate you.

I have a chal­lenge in life; and I know I am not alone. I explore an end­less stream of self devel­op­ment and spir­i­tual teach­ings, as a result of my ongo­ing inter­net, (soul), search­ing. One thing leads to another. It is easy to be over­whelmed with the vast­ness of the con­tent avail­able, as well as the num­ber of result­ing emails to sift through. I reg­u­larly unsub­scribe from sites just to keep it more manageable.

At some point there can just be too much cream filled cen­ter in the mid­dle of an Oreo cookie.

It is easy to sense the unwise temp­ta­tions to go after so much that you are left with lit­tle or noth­ing sub­stan­tial in hand. Although there is so much won­der­ful con­tent to look into there comes a point that the “wheat must be sep­a­rated from the chaff”. Yes, there are weeds and this­tle patches out there. So there is a need to be more focused and avoid the pit­falls and increase the har­vest. This has always been a par­tic­u­larly per­sonal challenge.

Well, it is back to the “Daisy Pond” for me.

I am reminded of the carousel at an amuse­ment park as a child and my strug­gle to decide which of the horses I should ride. I was never a one horse man but there are only so many rides to fit into a day at the park. I would start my delib­er­a­tions while wait­ing in line. I never con­sid­ered the occa­sional zebra, giraffe, ostrich, or the “unthink­able” inan­i­mate… sleigh!

On this carousel of life a most steady and trusty of mounts is a black Ara­bian stal­lion named, Burt.

Thanks for being there and help­ing me along to my “Where”.

Your Friend,

Dallen

Ann Matthews says

I bought your set of Mind Box CD’s. I am enjoy­ing them so very much as I do lear­ing from all of your expe­ri­ences and gifts to us.
Thank you!

Caroline Dunipace says

Dear Burt– Thank-you so much for remem­ber­ing me w/ this
e-mail!!
I AM now study­ing both your courses at Mind
Valley-THE LIFE ACCELERATOR,& THE HEALING TRIANGLE!! So
do not think you are far away from my heart & soul!!
After I was diag­nosed with cancer-I knew it was my Soul speaking-directing me to take com­plete
respondsabil­ity for chang­ing my life.
Your Quan­tum Leap­ing pro­grams #1 and #2 and the 2 pro­grams above have been INCREDIBLE!!I would rec­comend them to ALL!!
Please keep me on your mail­ing list/ and you
will be w/ me in Spirit dur­ing my surgery in Feb­ru­ary.
Love, Car­o­line P.S..my African Gray Par­rot says“UNCLE
BURT NOW?” when ever your voice fills our home!You are
very much beloved!(:

josi geloso says

good morn­ing burt an friends…i love te thought of MARILYN WILLIAMS…‘ALOWING OTHER PEOPLE RUNNING MY THOUGHTS”…GOOD PHRASE…people do that so the affir­ma­tions are sealed into our sub­con­scious to safe­guard our reac­tions to things they say…thanks burt..josi***

Betty Iams says

Hello Burt,

Thank you for your lovely gift. Actu­ally you are the gift that just keeps giv­ing and giv­ing. You seem to be a clas­sic exam­ple of the law of attrac­tion — the more YOU give the more YOU get! And so it is for all of us. A great lesson.

Words and beliefs cre­ate emo­tions and feel­ings, and from the emo­tions and feel­ings we cre­ate our lives, every day.

Bless­ings to you.
Betty Iams

Moonflower says

I love doing affir­ma­tions. I am a Divine Instru­ment of Cre­ation. I am cre­ative instru­ment of the Divine.

Leila says

Thanks Burt for your affir­ma­tions — they work for you that’s certain!

Branko Zecevic says

Thank you Bart!
Dis­ci­pline is the most important.One more way for us to take con­trol of our lifes!

Giovanni says

Thank you for your great work.The affir­ma­tions are the best i have come across.You are so inspiring.Keep up the great work.It is always so inspir­ing to read your blog and tips.
have a great day

Valerie says

Thank you so much. Very lovely video. I am smiling…BIG!! Valerie

Sanjana says

Dear Burt, this is beautiful,so very pos­i­tive and res­onates so very well with me as I am sure it will with oth­ers. Wat a lovely start to the day. Thank you ever so much for your generosity.

With joy and grat­i­tude, Love, Sanjana

Leo Wisted says

Hi Burt,

I love your blog and your work is out­stand­ing. I hope you keep it up. You are a won­der­ful per­son and thank you so much for these Affirmations.

Leo

jaziel erizil says

thanks 4 da help you i look at life bet­ter n i m a bet­ter per­son now n i will stay dat way god bless

chris tidman says

Ask­ing for a hand­out and expect­ing a gift because I am a spe­cial per­son, is a prayer. Know­ing what to do and hav­ing the tools and oppor­tu­nity to cre­ate wealth is a plan.

Why affir­ma­tions work is unknown, so they fall into the clas­si­fi­ca­tion of prayer rather than plan.

They are how­ever a start for the cre­ation of a plan to pro­duce the desired effect.

Donna says

Thank you Burt for these won­der­ful affir­ma­tions. The pic­tures are so beau­ti­ful and peace­ful. You are the best!
Donna

PHIL WILSON says

AMAZING SPIRITUAL MASTER HERE IN THIS MOMENT OF

~~

THANK YOU YOU

COSMIC LOVE MASTER ~~~

GIFT TO US ~~

Margie says

Thank you for your smile. Thank you for your lov­ing and encour­ag­ing thoughts, they keep me going on with a lov­ing pur­pose! Thank you

Susan says

Wow, what an inspir­ing video. I will be using this every day. Thank you for shar­ing this with us.

Susan
England

Bernard Trit says

Hello Burt
At Christ­mas a friend gave me your mind in a box, and I have lis­ten and used some the con­tent mostly for finan­cial free­dom and heal­ing.
I have yet to see a results in those two domain.Personal growth is doing very well I am grow­ing and I am grate­ful.
I was just won­der­ing what can I do to make things work for me, it’s quite sim­ple but I see no results. And now I get­ting down again.
Thank you
Bernard

Ljerka says

Thank you, Burt! I wish you a nice and sunny weekend,

Ljerka

GiGi says

Burt…Thank you for being with us at the start of 2010. You so keep me on track. We love you Burt for the energy and wis­dom that you give to all.

Lee from Canada says

Awe­some Burt, just awe­some espe­cially thank you for shar­ing the affir­ma­tions with pic­tures in the print out.

Joette Snyder says

Thank you for this Affir­ma­tion I think it’s the best one yet. I will use it daily. Burt thanks agin. From the Artist for Wildlife.

Joette Snyder says

This is a great Affir­ma­tion. I think the best one yet, Thank you Burt so much.

Monica says

Thank you Burt!

Marilyn R Williams says

Thank you Burt — Affir­ma­tions changed my life — even though repeat­ing sim­ple words would seem to not make a dif­fer­ence, they really do!

After lis­ten­ing to my self talk (things my brain would repeat through­out the day), I real­ized how many other peo­ples words were run­ning my thoughts!

Chang­ing those neg­a­tives into pos­i­tives has cre­ated last­ing pos­i­tive change in my life. I’m still liv­ing through the stuff I called into exis­tence before I knew how pow­er­ful thoughts were, but know all this is temporary.

Two of the affir­ma­tions that I use are: I am grate­ful for help­ful peo­ple. I am grate­ful for free stuff.

So, you are the result of two years of pos­i­tive affir­ma­tions and proof of the power of thought! :)

Have a fab­u­lous day,
Marilyn

Ron Daack says

Burt this is a won­der­ful video and I will be usng it daily with the affir­ma­tions. Good way to start my day.

Thanks Burt
Ron Daack in Virginia

Denise says

Dear won­der­ful Burt,

Thank you for the fan­tas­tic video and affir­ma­tions! I appre­ci­ate you and all you are doing in ser­vice to others.

pamellapure says

Lis­ten­ing to yoour affir­ma­tions gave a lift and lilt to my morn­ing. The begin­ning of a beau­ti­ful won­der­ment of joy­ful liv­ing. This week is a spe­cial invi­ta­tion from Burt for all of us to live LIFE IN ALL WAYS, IN EVERY WAY a life in full abudance.Again and again thannk you Burt
Pamellapure

James Caldwell says

Thanks Burt,

I needed this, just in time to do my own affir­ma­tions you give the gift of guid­ance, thank you brother, thank you in deed!

JC

Mariola says

Hello Burt!
I Love that video for me is every­thing what i need at this time is like YOU read my mind ‚That what may lift my energy and spirit.Thank you

Daniel says

What a great video! Thank you for the words of wis­dom. It helps to hear things expressed so well.

Adriana (Canada) says

What a won­der­ful mes­sage.
I like the pos­i­tive affir­ma­tions and the effect they have in my soul. Words are so powerful!

Yes, life could be beau­ti­ful and we have to really try to feel it fully every day. The uni­verse pro­vides us with an infi­nite source of energy and inspi­ra­tion. We just have to know how to look for it.

You are a true inspi­ra­tion, dear Burt.

Lucia says

Burt, Wow, What a FANTASTIC VIDEO! I have always felt that who ever was with me would have GOLD. I still feel this way but now I have two won­der­ful young adults (my chil­dren) who are liv­ing exam­ples about liv­ing with affir­ma­tions and stay­ing focus. I do think that as we mature into who we want to be it becomes eas­ier and eas­ier as we prac­tice being kind, lov­ing and giv­ing. Thank you Burt for all this great infor­ma­tion– Cheers to Life

Dora-Lynn Magill says

Burt your a won­der­ful man to have at this place and time thank you for your gen­er­ous affir­ma­tions gift!Dora

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