{"id":781,"date":"2009-12-01T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/fresh-morning-a-positive-affirmation.html"},"modified":"2009-12-01T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-a-positive-affirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/fresh-morning-a-positive-affirmation.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: A &#8216;Positive&#8217; Affirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>My aquacize teacher is fond of joking around, and last night, as we all flailed and splashed in our attempts to balance our bodies on foam noodles, he riffed a bit on positive affirmations.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look yourself in the mirror in the morning and give yourself a positive affirmation,&#8221; he said.&nbsp; &#8220;Say, &#8216;I&#8217;m <i>positive<\/i> I can&#8217;t do it!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to be positive (even those of us who do it for a living think so!).&nbsp; So for this morning, I like his version of an affirmation.&nbsp; Say it with me, filling in whatever &#8220;it&#8221; you&#8217;re facing today:&nbsp; I&#8217;m positive I can&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Now go prove yourself wrong.<\/p>\n<p><font><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><font color=\"#023d89\" size=\"3\"><strong>Need more morning inspiration?&nbsp; Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><font color=\"#023d89\" size=\"3\"><\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard to be positive (even those of us who do it for a living think so!). 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