This is the roundup post for the 15-Day Affirmation Challenge held in July 2014, where we practice positive affirmations for 15 days. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Hi everyone, welcome to the roundup for our 15-Day Affirmation Challenge! :D This is the final post of the challenge, where we do a roundup, reflect on our challenge experience, and post next steps moving forward. :D
Hi everyone, welcome to the roundup for our 15-Day Affirmation Challenge! :D This is the final post of the challenge, where we do a roundup, reflect on our challenge experience, and post next steps moving forward. :D15 Days, 15 Positive Affirmations — Completed
After nearly three weeks (with 15 days being active task days and the others being break days) and 15 positive affirmations, we’re now at the end of the challenge.Throughout the 15 active days of the challenge, I’ve assigned you 15 affirmations covering different growth categories.Week 1 was all about unrooting limiting beliefs surrounding ourselves and life.- On Day 1, we kicked off the challenge with an affirmation to declare the new beginning in our life and let go of any (unhappy) past, because every day IS a new beginning.
- On Day 2, we practiced unconditional self-love, because love of any form starts with loving ourselves.
- On Day 3, we affirmed our inner power, our ability to do anything we want, as long as we set our heart to it.
- On Day 4, we looked at setbacks and how we’ve all the power in us to overcome any setback.
- On Day 5, we practiced gratitude as that’s an essential value in living a fulfilling life.
- On Day 6, we affirmed our self-worth and worthiness of love, success, and happiness.
- On Day 7, we opened our mind to recognize the unlimited opportunities in the world waiting for us to create them.
- On Day 8, we broke out of conventional beauty conditioning and recognized our beauty as it is meant to be.
- On Day 9, we explored the question of, “What is my ideal relationship?” (where relationship here refers to any connection, beyond romantic relationship) and affirmed that we are in “conscious relationships that elevate and support me.“
- On Day 10, we looked at love. The singles started the process to attract their soulmate, while those in a relationship affirmed that they are in a loving relationship filled with (unconditional) love, trust, and respect.
- On Day 11, we delved into career and began taking steps towards creating that ideal career that we love and are making lots of money with.
- On Day 12, we addressed some of our limiting money beliefs and began the process of attracting financial abundance into our life.
- On Day 13, we looked at our all-important health and tackled bad habits so that we can “grow healthier and stronger every day.”
- Then on Day 14, we worked on our self-image (because it’s the foundation of personal growth) and recognized that we are perfect as we are.
Today’s Task: Roundup of the 15-Day Affirmation Challenge
Reflect over the following questions today:- How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you? (Have you found the tasks helpful in cultivating positivity, removing your limiting beliefs and limiting blocks, and creating a new, empowered life ahead?)
- What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why?
- What have you learned in the challenge? Elaborate.
- Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent (positive) change?
- Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Challenge Overview
For convenience, I have listed all challenge tasks and posts in an overview page. Visit here: Affirmation Challenge Overview, Jul 2014Moving Forward
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How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you?
This challenge has opened my eyes to many things related to my life (especially the areas of love and money).
What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why?
My favorite affirmation was “I am grateful for everything in my life.” I think gratefulness is one of the best feelings one can experience in one’s life. When I actively think about the things that I’m grateful for, I feel warmth, joy, and abundance flooding me. So this affirmation made me feel exactly the same way.
What have you learned in the challenge?
A few of the things that I’ve learned thanks to the affirmations and the questions joined to them are: my goal in life isn’t to make money, but money will find its way to me when I contribute enough/bring value; loving myself shouldn’t be based on exterior factors; most of my current limiting beliefs are related to childhood stories; and finally, a community of like-minded people can have a major positive impact on my quality of life.
Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent (positive) change?
1) Reducing to a minimum the amount of processed food that I consume daily.
2) Creating a site/blog on which to share what I learn about living healthy and inspired.
3) Getting into the habit of offering myself a weekly pamper, head to toe.
Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Honestly, I keep coming back to PE on a consistent basis and this is due to the fact that I like it a lot. As such, I really can’t think of anything right now that I would like to add or suggest.
I absolutely loved the level of interaction between the participants and all the valuable insights and encouragement that all have offered each other (including to me, something for which I am really grateful). This challenge was an uplifting experience which made me say “A-ha!” several times. I’m ready to take all these puzzle pieces and put them together, so that I may build the life of my dreams. Thank you, everyone, and of course, thank you, Celes! :)
Lina, thank you so much for being such an active part of this challenge! :) *hugs* You, and the other participants, have made this challenge a success for me and all of you.
If I recall right, don’t you already have a blog (which you wrote about in PE forums)? Would this be a different blog, or a revamp of this blog? (What happened to that blog that you mentioned in the forums previously?)
More than happy to have been part of the challenge. :) -hugs-
My old blog was a free one on Blogger, and it was more of an experiment. I didn’t have a clear message or audience, hence why it never really took off. Plus the name wasn’t the kind which is found easily (Life Mosaique). So now I’m working on a new one, with a more accessible name and a better-defined message/mission. I’m currently making plans for it although I’m really scared, but I guess it’s a natural thing since I’ve never done this before (I already got the domain name, so slowly but surely I’m getting there :lol:).
That sounds great, Lina! The lessons from Blogging Success Program (which you already have) will be crucial — it consists of the top strategies of A-list blog building, and it’s easy to see where blogs “fail” by cross-checking them with the principles of the program. Interestingly, many bloggers, even intermediate and veteran bloggers (i.e. those blogging for as long as 3-5 years), miss these fundamentals, and that’s why they’re not able to grow their blog bigger than X number of visitors/day.
I think it sounds like a great idea that you’re working on a more accessible name and better-defined message/mission; these are important fundamentals as I share in the first module. One baby step at a time — getting the domain name is a great (and big) start!!! The next will be working on what you’re doing now. Doing this step by step will help you to get through the process steadily (and surely).
Yes, your blogging course comes in really handy (once again, thank you very much!). I’ve been watching the videos and taking notes for the past few days, and they surely clarified certain aspects of blogging for me; or if there was something that I knew about, but not well-enough, the information provided in the videos helped me better understand the respective things.
I was to say the same thing about the “A-ha!” moments that I had over the challenge!
It’s been wonderful learning together!
Wishing you all the best :)
Thank you, same to you, ASLO! :) Good luck with everything.
Hi everyone! While I had previously announced that we’ll be having Live a Better Life in 30 Days Program in August, the (very) slow responses and engagement for the Affirmation Challenge towards the last leg of the challenge made me feel that perhaps the community isn’t ready for another challenge so soon — even if this is a private-members-only challenge, and even if I truly do feel that Live a Better Life in 30 Days Program is most needed when we are supposedly too taken with life’s demands and “have no time for anything else”.
As such, for the best interest of the community, I’ve decided to postpone the community run for Live a Better Life in 30 Days Program, as running a challenge without sufficient audience mass can be counterproductive. I’ll see if my schedule allows for a new run in September instead (and also provided that the community is more ready for a new run of 30DLBL then).
(Calae, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry about this as I know you were looking forward to it!! I hope you’ll still be able to do 30DLBL in your own time though next month and not put it off just because we’re not having a public run!)
Thanks for the shout out at the end! I was definitely sad when I first read this comment, but you’re right that I shouldn’t put it off either!
I feel like the slower response near the end may have to do with the deeper thinking involved with the past few tasks (at least, they felt that way to me!) I consciously put off the final task by a day because I had plans with friends last evening and I really wanted to take time to sit down and think of something good, so in a way I was doing the task way before I even began to write about it! The few tasks before that as well really hit my core, so those took me longer to work through as for a few days I just felt unable to face them/my limiting beliefs about them. This was in no way the fault of the challenge, I think I was just feeling “raw” from other things and found I needed some “recovery” time to get the most out of the challenges.
I’m just throwing out my two-cents on why I think it happened — I don’t think it’s a bad thing (or that you think it’s a bad thing, either!) that things slowed down, I’m just theorizing why I think it may be the case. xD
I have to say though, I will probably go ahead with the 30DLBL in August because I’m afraid putting it off will (for me) allow me to lose the momentum that I’ve built up these past two weeks. I may even do it alongside the 30BBM, because I feel this challenge has really opened me up to some great things and I think it will be “easier” (as in, take less time) to go through the tasks in the 30BBM/30DLBL than it has taken me in the past. But, I’ll see, I still have a few days to decide if I’d do both/one of them or not. x)
Maybe I can do 30BBM this month and join you guys with the 30DLBL next month? I’m honestly not sure what my best course of action is for next month, because I can see either program being super beneficial immediately after this challenge. xD
Hi Calae! I thought so too, and for me, the implication as the challenge conductor (lol this word makes me think of electrical conductors) is that either to have simplified tasks every day, or to change the challenge format to maybe one task every two days. But with the latter, it may slow down the challenge momentum (there was a challenge when I had break days and one participant complained that it slowed down the challenge pace). Or maybe even, a shorter challenge like participant Aatiya suggested in Week 1’s review. Just different considerations for me for a future new challenge. (This will be a year from now though, don’t think it’ll be anytime soon. Conducting a challenge takes a lot of time and effort and is also a largely community-initiative with no revenue payoff, so holding it too often prevents me from getting to other work priorities.)
That actually sounds like a plan! 30BBM this month and 30DLBL next month. I don’t want to promise anything (I don’t like that I had previously said that we’ll be having 30DLBL for August and am now shifting it out, even if it’s for the betterment of the community), but if there are enough people up for it (and committed) I’ll definitely love to hold 30DLBL in September.
That all makes sense, Celes! I totally understand, as I can only imagine the immensity of the challenges when you put them on, and for the 30-day challenges it only makes sense to make sure plenty of people are on board!
How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you?
This challenge has been amazing! I loved the depth it allowed me to go, and the affirmations going with it really helped me remember the lessons of the day in a concise manner. It was a fair amount of work because I went super-deep into thinking about things, but in the end it was definitely worth it as I’ve come out of it with a lot of new insights.
What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why?
I think the affirmations about ability and making our own affirmations. Personally, I need to remind myself constantly that I -can- do things, so the one for ability helped me tremendously. Making up my own affirmation was a great exercise in thinking about what really motivates me, which I think is awesome!
What have you learned in the challenge? Elaborate.
I’ve learned the power of our thoughts. Just thinking about an affirmation doesn’t grant us its strength, but delving into how it applies in our lives and what our limitations to believing in it are can certainly shake up your thought process. It’s hard to, say, dislike yourself when you realize/can logically challenge these reasons and prove why they really mean nothing, hence giving you no reason to dislike yourself. I think the hardest part is remembering what you learn, as thoughts come and go much like habits and so it can take a long time to change negative thoughts, even if you have the logic to prove they have no place!
Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three
biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent
(positive) change?
1. I’m going to take the lessons I learned each day of the challenge, summarize them, and then put them somewhere where I can easily refer to them and review them each day. I don’t want to lose the lessons I’ve learned just because I forget!
2. Don’t see the things that are good for me but not a habit (such as exercise, flossing, etc.) as a huge inconvenience, but reframe my thoughts so that I see it for what it really is: me valuing myself enough to take good care of myself! I’m worth it! I would rather be someone that does my best than someone who lets my fears/lethargy get the best of them!
3. Make sure I leave myself time to do whatever I want. I get easily burnt out because I feel like there’s a million different things I “need” to do — but one thing I do “need” that I don’t give myself a lot of is the permission to just relax and not concern myself with the million things I should be doing or didn’t do.
Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Nothing in particular I can think of, I feel like most of my struggles are addressed within the pages of the site somewhere already. xD I will say though, the thing I struggle most with recently is a sense of lethargy/apathy. I feel like few things get me genuinely excited, so it’s hard sometimes to work on tasks even if it’s something I enjoy. In my life in general, people have even noticed that I rarely get excited about things, and it makes me feel a little bad as logically I realize how amazing life as a whole is, but I wonder if I truly understand it? Also every time I try to come up with my purpose in life, I can hit something, perhaps even feel some kind of visceral “wow, I think this is it!” response, but then after a short while I won’t react the same and it’s hard to get motivated. Sorry I’m rambling, but I thought perhaps sharing what I struggle with might prove some insight somehow. ^^;
Hi Calae! That’s interesting — are you talking about lethargy towards life in general (jadedness), or lethargy from having too many things to do / doing too many things, and hence just overall physically and mentally exhausted?
If you don’t react the same after a while, it probably means that that was never a thing meant for you. This may sound like a very hasty conclusion, but it is very much the case. And this isn’t a bad thing too. As you repeat this process of thinking “Wow, I think this is it!” and then realizing that this isn’t it, it’s a matter of time before you collect enough experience and realize what is it (i.e. what are the things that excite you) and what isn’t it (i.e. what are the things that *don’t* excite you).
Hi Celes! For the first part, I’d say it’s a bit of both, but probably slightly more the latter (feeling mentally and physically exhausted). The thing is though, I can feel this way even if I haven’t done much of anything recently! I’m hoping it might just be a matter of increasing my energy (by exercising and the like), but we’ll see I guess. My main reason for thinking it’s mostly the latter is because in the morning when I first get up/get to work I can be super excited and energized about everything I want to do during the day, but as soon as I get home I want to just relax and surround myself with mindless entertainment.
And thanks for the thoughts on my purpose! I think I was feeling a bit down because I didn’t have my purpose “yet,” but really, I shouldn’t let that bother me. As long as I do my best to aiming in the direction I think my purpose is, it’ll probably come to me eventually. Worst case scenario I realize my current direction isn’t the right one for me. =)
Hi Calae, what you said! It’s like what I advocate in How To Know What You Want To Do In Life — to know what we want to do, we need to first be actively exploring, and to be actively exploring, we need to be trying new, different things. This is exactly what you’re doing now. :) Don’t be worried about finding what your purpose is, but rather focus on exploring and identifying what you like and enjoy doing. I’d say a purpose is like a very intense version of a deep interest, so the more you find something you enjoy doing, the more you’re getting warm.
On, and on the energy thing — I’m not sure if I’ve already mentioned this, but the chapter on creating your productivity ritual in 10 Rules of Super Productive People will truly be the key. And as what I emphasize in the chapter, know that sometimes perhaps relaxing and just surrounding yourself with “mindless entertainment” may well be what you need at that moment, in which case it wouldn’t be an unproductive moment per se because you’re actually recharging yourself for a productive work session later on. :)
How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you?
I found that the tasks were helpful in reminding me to constantly remove limiting beliefs so that I can move forward. I am usually the one standing in my own way.
What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why?
“I am perfect as myself” because it reminds me that everyone is a “package deal”. You get the good with the bad, and you work on the bad to make it good, but at any given moment, the package is the perfect you that you were meant to be. We are never “done” evolving, but that doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with us now.
What have you learned in the challenge?
I learned that everyone struggles with universal challenges in one way or another, but that people deserve the time an respect that they need to overcome these challenges in their own way. Reaching out and loving people in their challenge is very helpful.
Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent (positive) change?
1. Constantly examine my beliefs to see if they are the root cause of any issue.
2. Keep working at my goals. Never give up.
3. Help others as much as I can, because that helps me, too.
Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Yes, I would like more challenges. I will sign up for the 30DLBL when you hold it.
Hi Susan! I love this — this statement really summarizes the intent of Day 14’s affirmation perfectly.
That’s great to hear! :D I really loved your participation during the last 30DLBL you were in (I believe it was all the way back in 2012), and totally look forward to conducting a new run with you in it. It may be in September, so stay tuned for that.
Hello everybody,
I wanted to say heartfelt thanks to everybody who has been part of this journey and has touched my life for the better :) Challenge has been great on its own, but without your feedback, insights and advice, I wouldn’t get so good results. Celes You were right from the start – those who share about their experience indeed gain the most. I am sure everybody who did their tasks day by day gained something. When I decided to become part of those who publicly share, I didn’t expect it to turn out this way. At first I thought, that if I announce my participation publicly it will somehow keep me on track, it will make me come back to the challenge daily and do my part no matter what. Well it did, and not only out of duty, but the excitement as well. ;)
I can’t believe 15 days has passed so fast. When I look back to day one it seems like a lifetime ago. Without any exaggeration I can say that I feel like another person. Magic happened to me on day 8. I probably never realized that my self image was holding me back for so many areas in my life. It felt great to connect with my beauty and it sure does still. It’s amazing what can happen to us if we just embrace who we are, if we just fall in love with ourselves. Of course, nothing of this would happen if I skipped challenges from day 1 to day 7. Celes you have done a great program, everything at the right time, in the right order, for the right people.. ;)
This has been a meaningful experience for me and made me look inside myself, find and admit the faults that I have been carrying within myself. That’s really tough. Each day we needed to break ourselves down and built up anew. Also defining action steps all along the journey isn’t an easy task. It’s easy to point out what should be done in such a situation. But it’s hard to give yourself tasks and know that you will need fully commit yourself to them on daily basis.
(My goodness, I just typed a very lengthy response to you and it got lost thanks to
Disqus’ bad administrative interface setup. I’m going to retype it as best as possible.)
Firstly Santas, I want to thank you for being such a critical part of this challenge. Not only did you openly share your task results each day without holding back (and this really helps the community to grow; the challenge with 0 responses every day would never be as helpful to other participants as what it is today), you even take time to READ others’ responses AND PROVIDE CRITICAL POINTERS, ON TOP OF SUPPORTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT, to help them in what they are facing. To that, I thank you greatly. *bows*
Next, regarding your post on Love during the Love affirmation day (Day 10) — are you referring to response from VickiB or Educate Yourself? Because I just checked and I don’t see any responses from EY to you on your task response on that day, but there are responses from VickiB.
Regardless, I’m really ecstatic that you’ve received critical breakthroughs with regards to your relationship, and that you have been seeing positive results!!! I actually had some thoughts to share with you after reading your task response for that day, but because of time constraints, wasn’t able to. (It’s sort of the same every day — there are many participants whom I want to get to, but never enough time to address everyone. So instead, I respond to as many as possible, and respond to different people for the next day, so that I get to interact with as many as possible.)
But seeing the revelations that you have arrived at YOURSELF (albeit with the aid of another participant), it sounds like there wasn’t a need for me to respond at all. What you have come to realize — how changing your “inner position”, changes the vibe at home, before even taking any action, and how your partner seeing you “operating” different than usually also responded differently — are EXACTLY the things which I would have said to you there and then. (It’s also the same thing that I cover in Day 22: Mirror an Annoyance of <a href="https://personalexcellence.co/30bbm/Be a Better Me in 30 Days Program.) You have applied and arrived at the lesson yourself, and I’m really happy for you. *hugs*
On your comment “Each day we needed to break ourselves down and built up anew,” you are so 100% right. Actually, the ones with the most takeaways from this challenge are (1) those who do it with an open mind, and (2) THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO BREAK THEMSELVES DOWN to build themselves back up. Because reading the tasks with preconceived notions will lead to those same preconceived notions. For example, someone who reads the wealth task with the thought “The world has greedy money grubbers,” “I don’t want to be like those money grubbers,” and “What’s the point of being rich? Not interested.” will forever remain in a sub-optimum financial situation, even if the task is encouraging people to let go of such beliefs. The extent we can gain, is the extent which we open our mind and fill it in with new possibilities. Like Bruce Lee said, “Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
Indeed. Those who shared not only gain for themselves from their very sharing, but allowed others to the opportunity to touch them (like how other participants touched you when they responded to your task results, and the way you touched them when YOU responded to them). For me in particular, all of you have helped to build the PE community by your very sharing too. Some participants may have resisted sharing because they don’t see the point of doing so (and also for other privacy concerns as mentioned in Day 3’s discussion thread).
Addressing the first point — not sharing because don’t see the point in doing so — every task sharing counts in community building. A challenge with 0 responses would never be as valuable as our challenge today with its body of comments and open sharing (even today, there are still participants posting their results for earlier tasks). When 1 person shares, every person in the challenge benefits too; when more people share, more people benefit. Also like I said in Day 3, reading the task sharing lets me know the participants’ status, so that I can better fine-tune the subsequent tasks. So to all of you who have openly participated in the Affirmation Challenge in one way or another (whether it’s by posting in one task thread only or in every day’s thread), all of you helped the make the difference for me in running this challenge. Thank you. *bows*
Thank you for letting me know! I’ll keep this in mind. Seems like there are other participants open to having it in September too, so that’s good!
Last but not least, just curious Santas — how did you know PE and when did you start reading it? (I don’t recall ever seeing you comment before, so just wondering when you started being a part of the community! :) )
You are welcome Celes :) It was my pleasure to share my part of story and be the part other people stories as well. I really enjoyed those interactions and I hope that somehow all together we improved each others lives by bringing different perspectives. To sum this all up and make it shorter to read, I can only say that by helping others I have greatly helped myself as well :) and if I contributed to build a community or encourage more participants to share I am double happy ;)
The challenge about Love, indeed my mistake – I was referring to Samuel Lim (by mistake I had written Educate Yourself because of his impact on more recent days I guess), he responded to me under his own post of the day, after reading my post and probably interaction with VickiB. I have much bigger understanding about myself in relationships now, but still it’s a hard job to keep alive in myself what I want to see in my love life. No to write too long again here, I think of going back to the challenge and post there my follow – up experience on this.
I found PE by searching for inspirational quotes. It’s quite long time ago, I guess it was in 2010. I loved 101 series and I bookmarked your blog. I also added Celestine Chua as my friend on FB ( back then PE didn’t have a facebook page) to be updated about latest articles. Soon after that was (probably the first) 30LBL challenge and I participated on it without sharing my responses. This is my first time that I have became part of the community and now when I have discovered the benefits of sharing openly I will try to participate more and more.
I wish everybody a fresh, beautiful and abundant August :)
ps. I am sorry for late reply. Me and my husband, we have been out of town trying new things and we left our pc at home :)
How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you? It was variable — sometimes the responses came quickly, sometimes slowly, sometimes I had more than one idea to work with… once I was going to paste in what I had written in my offline journal but when I reread the challenge, I wrote a different response. The questions have inspired some deep thinking.
What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why? My favorite was the one about finding or creating opportunities. That day I not only identified them but acted on them promptly!
What have you learned in the challenge? Elaborate. It was not so much new learning as relearning or being reminded of things I already knew about the value of speaking positively to myself about myself and my life but also of looking behind the responses to find motivations and obstacles. What I say to myself is extremely important!
Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent (positive) change? I’ll be doing more of the looking behind my first responses to things, and I will continue to use positive language and affirmations. I will also focus attention on action steps. When I don’t take those action steps, I’ll look behind them to the reason/cause/explanation for not doing them. I think this approach will be helpful with the biggest ongoing problems in my life!
Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it? I can’t think of anything at this time. I am confident that you will continue to provide good useful information to your subscribers!
And when you know that the end is not truly an ‘end’ but rather a new beginning….is when you shall sit back with new vigour, self love and positivity about your self and use the the lessons learnt from this pit stop in the journey to come :) I shall miss this challenge which has been so effective, has pushed me out of my self-imposed limitations and has let me soar into the world, coming out as a rejuvenated me :)
Before every thing else, I shall thank Celes. over many of the challenges we have done I have said you are my inspiration, I say it yet again for I truly mean it! Kudos for the good work! You are doing a fantastic job :)
1. How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you?
I was down and disappointed with me and my life before this challenge happened….this challenge filled me with motivation and chiseled out all the bits I was doing wrong and has now let me out to the world to pursue again but this time with the power of all the affirmations in me :)
2. What has/have been your favourite affirmation(s)? Why?
Without doubt, my favourite affirmation was “I love myself unconditionally” (Day 2) for before then I had no idea of self-love, my life had meant if I love others, they’ll love me and that is how I’ll find love…but if I have the ability to give love and warmth and kindness to others, I definitely have the power to give the same to me :) Self Hug :D
Though all other days of the challenge have been wonderful and dear to my heart :)
3. What have you learned in the challenge?
The most important thing I have learned is that till now I had made assumptions about myself that I thought were given….”I am not beautiful” “I am not worth it” “I cannot do anything” this challenge has changed these assumptions to wonderful affirmations!
I have learnt my worth and my potential. I have learnt accepting my self. I have set out with these wonderful affirmations into the world and I know I shall not fall back to my old ways again..
4. Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent (positive) change?
– In all that I do, I shall not forget to love myself, pamper myself from time to time, give myself a self hug :) (It seems overly obvious that Day 2 was the best day for me in this challenge ;) )
– Many of the tasks involved action steps, I have written all my action steps down and I shall implement on these action steps
– I shall print the affirmation images and put it up on my wall :)
5. Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Honestly you have given us so much Celes, that too selflessly, it is unfair to ask for more…..
But there is one thing I shall like to see at PE from now on…and that is my input in the Forums and comments in the Articles :)
Is there anything you’d like to see from us Celes?
Lastly, thank you to everyone who participated in this challenge, motivated and encouraged each other. We are in for spectacular changes in life. Best of luck to all of you :)
much love
How sweet is that, ASLO??? I, for one, would really welcome seeing your comments! :) But even if you don’t have the time to leave them, it’s perfectly fine too! :) I always like to read comments because it helps me know how all of you are doing, and it is of course a way of getting (invaluable) feedback too.
Just for all of you to continue to be yourselves, rock who you are, and live your life to the fullest! :D This is really the most important thing and why PE was born.
I’m so glad that the challenge came at that right moment ASLO. *hugs* If you like, there’s actually the Live Your Best Life sub-forum in PE Forums where you can post your life goals and document your journal through those goals (as well as any obstacles too). It’s a great way to get personal accountability and support from other members. Some of the name you see in the Affirmation Challenge (Lina, Calae) are actually regulars in the forums too!
To those who haven’t shared your roundup feedback yet, please do so soon! All your feedback and thoughts, however little, are important to me. I’ll be “closing” the challenge in a few days’ time (closing as in moving on to the next project for PE and no longer administrating over the comments section, but I’ll leave all comments threads open in case others want to do the tasks in their own time and share their answers in the comments area).
1. How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you?
This is the greatest challenge I have ever been part of. Each task was helpful. I thought I believed in myself before but I really believe in myself now. If I can share what I shared. I can do anything. I hate sharing myself. I never shared myself like that. Actually I have been meaning to edit or delete everything but I won’t. I don’t mind my weaknesses anymore. Thanks for sharing too.
2. What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why?
My favorite affirmation was “I am perfect as myself.” I don’t have to be unhappy anymore this is me and I will always be me. For example, I hated my accent, so now I joined meetups to shine my confidence to love my “cat” voice. People tell me I sound like a cat when I talk. :) For some weird reason I feel like I am a cat if I was an animal. Before I learned I sounded like one.
3. What have you learned in the challenge? Elaborate.
I learned a lot about myself and I am more clear now about my goals. Before it used to be ideas about what I plan to do but I was missing the steps. And the task made it easier to think and the steps pop out like they were there already but most of them weren’t.
4. Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three
biggest actions you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent
(positive) change?
I used to say “ACTION” to motivate me to do something but I don’t so now I think it would be easier to:
-stick to one challenge only no matter what
-ignore anything else and have a deadline for it
-finish it (the hardest for me). I can do it because I finished this challenge.
5. Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
I have been begging God for a place where I can grow and it’s here. OMG, and it’s FREE! I ♥ FREE! Every problem I have I know there is a solution somewhere here in your articles. I plan to read them all. I have everything I need right now so thanks!
Note: OMG = Oh my God (I don’t understand some things that people write so I write what mine means just in case there a twin somewhere). Peace!
That’s probably the best thing I can ever hear about the challenge. Thank you so much for your kind words, EY. :) *bows*
That’s so funny EY because I think the same about myself too! So much so that Ken’s nickname for me is cat (in Chinese) and we always talk about cats like they are my friends (which in a way I do regard them as my friends). In fact, a cat sneaked into our house today when I was out (and Ken was in), and then Ken was saying how the cat was here to look for me, haha!
Really?? That must sound so unique and cute!! I’d love to hear your voice if you are open to publishing a video or audio clip of yourself on YouTube one day!!!!!
All in all, like what I said to Santas, thanks so much for not only actively sharing in the challenge, but also being a beacon of light and support for the other participants. Like what I said to you in an earlier task, I really do believe you are born to do this (inspire others), so it’s really awesome that it’s in line with what you wish to do in the future (helping others through your field of Engineering). I still remember one of the goals you outlined in the beginning of the challenge, which is to be in the Dean’s List, and I totally believe you can do it EY!!! If you haven’t, do watch this video which is my Celes.TV interview on how to score a top GPA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpkJjUFaeo
Thanks so much for the video!
I am glad I am not the only stray cat lol :)
God bless you Celestine!
I found the challenge to be one of the best in PE :) . It was amazing!!! Personally I was frustrated (and still am) at how hard it can get for me to find opportunities to comment but overall this challenge was one of the most intimate and special ones I’ve done in PE.
My favorite affirmation was day 10 which had to do with love.
In the challenge I learned that ever so often the roots to almost each day’s soul searching was that I value my self-worth uppon what others think of me and I realized that I really have to start working on my self-confidence and self-love.
My action steps are:
1-dedicating my own personal challenge to
work on my self-confidence.
I’d love to see more challenges up ahead!! :)
2-continue re-cultivating friendship and love in my relationship
3-continue my protein and exercise diet.
Reflect over the following questions
today:
1. How has the Affirmation Challenge
been for you? (Have you found the tasks helpful in cultivating positivity,
removing your limiting beliefs and limiting blocks, and creating a new,
empowered life ahead?) It has been a very positive experience because I’ve learned
so much stuff about myself that I would had never realized otherwise.
2. What has/have been your favorite
affirmation(s)? Why?
Day 3 because that was the day I most got inspired and was finally able to finish
my video game demo #1
3. What have you learned in the
challenge? Elaborate.
That I really need to work on my views on self-worth
and that I can achieve anything that I set myself to believe and with a strict
schedule, break days in between and deadlines.
4. Based on what you’ve learned in the
challenge, what are three biggest actions you’d now be taking in your
life to create permanent (positive) change?
a-keep working on my video games
b-pay more attention to the love I deserve
from myself.
c-cultivate friendship and love in my
relationship no matter how much time we’ve been together.
5. Anything you would like to see at PE
moving forward? If so, what is it?
For some odd reason my answer to this
question did not appear on my comment in the last day’s post but I’d totally
love to see more challenges!!! At least 2 each year? : ) 3 I think is asking
for too much haha but if it can be made possible than 3 is also welcome :D
Wow you made a video game from Day 3?! Are you a programmer? I want to make an app game I don’t know what to do or where to start so i am just learning how to simply code for now. You’re my inspiration!
Dear Celes and participants,
Sorry to post my roundup results so late. Constant power cut and internet connection challenges since last Friday. You may imagine how frustrated and angry people are here! Power is now restored but internet connection is still very slow. Here is my result. Hope it’s not too late.
This Affirmation Challenge Training has been very challenging for me, first because I started late (on July 18th, at the Affirmation Challenge Day8), second the tasks need deep reflection to be carried out. I had to work out two to three tasks a day to be able to catch up with the group; which was a little stressful for me. I am very glad I’ve been able to make it eventually. This training has been an initiatory journey deep inside my own psyche to identify the strongholds (limiting beliefs and blocks) that hamper my personal development. The clear formulation of the tasks has been very “helpful in removing them; in cultivating positivity and creating a new, empowered life ahead”
The Day3 affirmation on ability “I can Achieve Anything As Long As I set My Heart to It” is my favorite because it is the kick-starter that releases all other affirmations and the fuel that will, from now on, set me off and propel me from one achievement to the other.
I have learned much about myself, about my inner capability to create value, about the bountiful opportunities around me. The training has roused my awareness as if I am awakening from a long hibernating boreal sleep into broad daylight. Now is the time for me to take action and catch up with the huge amount of time that I have wasted so far.
Based on what I’ve learned in the challenge, three biggest actions I’d now be taking in my life to create permanent (positive) change are the following. I will endeavor:
a. to develop healthy living habits ( feeding, regular practice of sport, having enough sleep/rest)
b. to act positively (show love and confidence to myself and to all around me), to reach out and learn more from my environment be it social or physical (on Saturday July 26th, I joined the local Toastmasters’ Organization, to improve my oral communication skills and new people.
c. to find ways and means to develop a business plan, to create my ideal/dream business (language center, school, personal development business etc), to get rich, to live a comfortable
and happy life by 2016 latest.
God bless you, Celes, for your selfless commitment! God grant you a long life and make PE a sustainable Company!!!!!!! I know I have acquired a lot from this challenge training. All of the participants who have taken part in it with commitment have certainly received a great deal. Millions of people in the world (including me) still badly need help, personal development, life coaching to put us on the right track. I have been following PE since July 2012. In three weeks’ Affirmative Challenge coaching, I have gained more than I did in these last two years’ following you. Time constraints and finances have been the greatest challenges for enrolling in trainings. Whenever I have the possibility I will enroll in trainings. Please, continue with e-books, constructive manifestos, trainings, direct or online coaching, articles. I am considering the possibility to buy some PE e-books. Thank you so much, Celes!!!
Foli
Thank you Celes for creating this challenge. It has been really useful. I’ve been very irregular and had to take breaks in between. But I’m glad that I’ve completed all the tasks :)
Favorite affirmations:
I’m financially abundant. Money comes to me naturally. This one is my favorite because I’d never thought this way. The other affirmations, one would just ‘know’ to be true. But this one was an eye-opener. Also listening to other people’s limiting beliefs about money, it just showed me how many good people have hidden barriers agianst welcoming the flow of money into their lives.
Learnings:
People say that thoughts originate actions. Which is true in my limited knowledge. Affirmations are actions in thoughts. And you taught us to go a step beyond. To not only visualize ideal states of being, but charting out our course, at least the first few steps, for getting there. So the challenge was in fact ‘affirmations and beyond – into the land of action’! The journey of going through this challenge has in fact shown us what we could do with any limiting belief that we’ve. Identify the belief. Try to root-cause the origin. Challenge it. List a set of immediate actions that you could take to break the belief that has dissolved in you. And visualize yourself having reached your better stage of life, having overcome that limiting belief. And having taken these steps for manysuch beliefs through the duration of the challenge, it’s clear that it works. It gives the starting impetus. And all we need to address a problem(, any problem,) is to get cracking on it.
3 immediate actions:
– sleep early and thus wake up early
– exercise every day for at least 30 mins
– incorporate at least 30 mins of learning time in each day
Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Maybe a challenge where people work in smaller groups? Maybe in pairs? I think that mode of working maybe more useful. Each person is more accountable. And the depth to which one may analyze the problem would probably be more, and the realizations stronger, when working with another person.
Thank you for everything you do for us Celes!
For me, I feel that affirmation challenge been a wake up call to conditional my mind to
fully get the insight how blessed I am after all, despite many personal disappointments.
Therefore I realize that affirmations I been gone through, are source ingredients to motivate me to change my actions and feelings to get control of my life.
I am accountable for todays opportunity.
If I do not affirm daily I loose gradually little of myself and miss the importance of what life is really about.
THANKS for sharing your affirmation challenge concept to all of us.
Hi Celes,
I was a passive reader of your blog from past one year. I read a lot of personality development books. That helped me to change my outlook. But I was never able to follow them all the time. Once the situation is negative I was getting back to my old self.
There was a time when I was tensed about everything on earth. Sometimes I was scared to get up and go through the day so I was sleeping as long I was able to.
But after joining your affirmation challenge I learned how to implement something. I am still in day one task though which I started last week :). But after failing many times I am able to do it successfully from past 3 days.
My goal was to
1 drive my car (I stared driving after 2 months learning and my car was damaged on the 3rd day I was driving independently)
2 get up early morning(I was trying this from years)
3 To stay positive and happy during the day no matter what.
When I say this to myself in the morning and remind myself my goals and start my day
“Today is a brand new day. My past does not define me.My future is mine to create.”
I achieved the first two goals. The 3rd one I am able to implement partially. The 3rd one I am successful 90% of the time. But when things does not go my way I loose control for sometime. But I am able get back to control after few hours.
I know I have a lot to practice. But I am happy I started my journey.
Thanks you very
I finished the first 13 days, but take me 1 month to complete the last 2 days. I used to leave half way, this affirmation challenge is the 1st online challenge I fully engaged and complete.
I am grateful that I finally did it.
Reflect over the following questions today:
1. How has the Affirmation Challenge been for you? (Have you found the tasks helpful in cultivating
positivity, removing your limiting beliefs and limiting blocks, and
creating a new, empowered life ahead?)
The affirmation Challenge is great. All the tasks are very helpful and make to reflect in my daily life and I will continue to do that regularly.
2. What has/have been your favorite affirmation(s)? Why?
Self-love on Day 2, Self-worth on day 6, and the self-image on Day 14. The foundation for a fulfilled life is the ability to believe that I am deserve the best, a love, happiness and fulfilled life.
With the mind-set in place, I can start to love myself and accept who I am, and
continue to pursue my dream and appreciate all the time and efforts I spent for
that. I used to require and continue acquire appreciate from others, need to be
validated. In fact, I don’t need to be validated by others, I am good enough.
3. What have you learned in the challenge? Elaborate.
Lots of things I learned from the
challenge. The biggest learning is I realized how hard I treat myself and find
a way to get myself released. I play the negative belief music (self-limitation
thoughts) in my mental i-pod on and on, this challenge provide solution for me
to access, which allow me to aware and even turn off those negative thoughts,
and create the new music for me.
4. Based on what you’ve learned in the challenge, what are three biggest actions
you’d now be taking in your life to create permanent (positive)
change?
1)
Make my vision board—completed
yesterday, I will continue renew.
2)
Create my own wall-paper for
the affirmation challenge,-Done. Set as my desktop screen.
3)
Regular review my learning and
redo the affirmation challenge in Oct/Dec.
5. Anything you would like to see at PE moving forward? If so, what is it?
Thanks for Celes bring this to us, which
thousands of thanks for Celes, soul sisterJ
Continue the challenges like this, I learned a lot from participant in the session and learn
from others. It’s very powerful. Thanks for everyone share your personal story,
I may not have chance to comment or relate today, but I do believe your words
will make impact to me when I redo the challenge, and to others who join the
affirmation later. That’s the power of words.
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