Review: Positive affirmations: you are what you tell yourself you are
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2013
Many people expend unneeded energy on negative thinking, hearing criticisms as personal assaults, and bending to the errors of the past as predictors for future failure.  Hattie T Hoerner's simple little book does not purport to be a psychoanalytical treatise, the magnum self help book, or a cure all. But what this book does offer is advice from a friend who has some easy suggestions for becoming happier and more successful. Yes, there are grammatical and spelling errors here, and if you choose to focus on those you will be missing the message: this is, after all, an eBook placed before the public with an earnest attempt to guide the reader to a happier life.Positive affirmations are simply sentences to tell yourself that support your self esteem and build confidence that with belief in yourself and the empowerment that provides can alter your state of success and happiness. Negative input - doubt, fear, criticism, underestimating or even negating goals - all can produce the stasis that happens in the mind that believes what it is told.Hoerner suggests sentences (or quotes) to tell ourselves that build our spirit and our confidence and our security as a person. These statements we make in a positive way are not just one time instances, but need to become a repetitive pattern on a daily (and at times even more frequent) basis in order to reinforce our subconscious by repetition that we need not fear rejection and failure but instead accept the positive build blocks these positive affirmations create. For many this little book will be a kick start toward comfortably finding success and happiness.  Grady Harp, May 13