How To Use Affirmations For Greater Homeschool Joy

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You can have greater homeschool joy every day. The power to overcome negative thoughts and situations that arise in your homeschool is something that you can learn, practice, and use. Discover how to harness the power of affirmations as a homeschool mom.

Affirmations are positive self-statements used to remind, refocus, and redirect. A few of the factors that make affirmations accessible and easy to implement include:

free
customizable
short
easy to use
positive
growth-oriented

How to Use Affirmations for Greater Homeschool Joy

Before you start this positive practice for self-growth and greater joy, you must determine what affirmation you will focus on first.

Consider your personal and homeschool goals.
Prioritize your goals and use the affirmation that will help you focus and achieve.
Customize (learn more below) your affirmations to best meet your needs and help you succeed.
Record your affirmation.
Read your affirmation every morning and repeat aloud.
Repeat affirmation throughout your day, whenever you need it.
Say affirmation, internally or externally, in a positive tone.
Stick with affirmation for at least one day before modifying it.

Customize Your Homeschool Affirmations

Affirmations are "I" statements. As long as your affirmations include positive words that focus on growth, you can create them for any topic, issue, or situation. With positive, growth-oriented affirmations, your homeschool joy will soar!

A few tips on customizing your affirmations:

Focus on the present or future-not the past. You are not looking forwards but moving forward towards positive change.
Use power words for effective growth.
Select words that are meaningful and significant for you.
Keep your affirmations short and easy to recall.
Your affirmations are most effective when rational and realistic. (For example, you may want to work out for three hours a day but an affirmation with the specific goal is not realistic if you have been a couch potato).

Of course, no resource on affirmations would be complete without a reference to that amicable Saturday Night Live character, Stuart Smalley.