Comments on: Motivational messages

By: albert from english language learners

albert from english language learners — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:18:14 +0000

I think a book of affirmations is great tool for motivation, because they are less commercial than mass produced mugs.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:25:32 +0000

Great article! I used simple note cards and wrote positive messages to myself when I was going through a rough time and believe me it worked. I posted them around my mirror and on my dashboard in my car. I still use this method for encouragement. I have taken it a step further and made my note cards a little more colorful. But it is a great idea and much cheaper than buying something at the store. Thanks for the article.
Vicki

By: Yumi

Yumi — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:31:49 +0000

During a very difficult marriage (I got out 2 months ago at the end of 8 years in total), I tried exactly that, sticking messages and half-written letters telling myself how lucky I was and to think positive, and trying to boost myself up. Towards the end of the marriage, when my depression got worse but I was still trying to make the best of it, my messages got more desperate, and ended up just making me feel worse. Even now, although I am off antidepressants for the first time in 5 years, and feeling heaps better, in re-reading some of my messages while sorting out my baggage, including of the emotional kind, I find myself closing my eyes in pain and tearing them up. Even looking at them from an objective viewpoint, thinking of using it as a basis for the future and a book I am going to write, I can tell how hard I was trying and how emotionally at an edge I was. So, from own experience, I would dare advocate that it is worth paying some yen/dollars/pounds/euro if one can afford it, for something that has been cultivated to be cheerful but is neutral of emotions.