- Positive thoughts bring me benefits I desire

- Negative thoughts have no influence over me

- Everyday and in everyway I am getting better and better

To start day with confidence...

- I am confident and charming with people I meet

- I radiate confidence and relaxation

- I start great conversations easily and effortlessly

- I approve of myself and feel great about myself

- I have sky-high self-esteem

You can do same.

Remember to say these affirmations with feeling and do so quietly inside your head while in that relaxed awakening state.

Unless I use this ritual each morning I tend to feel negative about day ahead. The difference from feeling negative to feeling positive is huge for sake of those few minutes in morning.

You can also go one step further and imagine day ahead working out well. See yourself doing your best and easily dealing with challenges. Imagine yourself feeling confident and behaving in that way no matter who you deal with.

Imagine you will have a great day in this way and you are directing your unconscious to make it happen in language it understands best - feelings and images.

Forget about will power.

Will power is a waste of time because it´s like talking to most powerful part of your mind in a language it does not understand.

I also don’t understand why at nearly every restaurant there is someone with a cell phone talking loud enough to be heard in three counties. Is it to impress folks with fact he/she has a phone? It’s really not that big a deal. Some underprivileged school kids also have them.

And, what ever happened to private conversations? I long for days when people went into phone booths – and closed door. Is there no sense of privacy anymore? Who wants to overhear conversations about private business deals or someone’s love life?

For five straight days, while Dawn Princess was at sea, we were out of range for cell phones. It was wonderful. The moment we made land, like smokers starved for nicotine, many began to dial frantically. I began looking for a “no phoning section.”

BARBER-OSOPHY: Somewhat like money, electronic devices make wonderful servants and lousy masters.

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