I really don't have a lot of motivation.

I've been doubting a lot about what I've been doing

with my life. (laughs)

And, you know, I just, I-I feel like I'm-I'm in a rut.

And so I thought, hey, why not try daily affirmations?

Why not?

(upbeat instrumental music)

If you haven't yet been initiated into the wonderful world

of positive thinking and daily affirmations,

here's what it's all about.

Most people go throughout their day

followed by a trail of negative self-talk.

(text popping) We're filled with doubt,

anxieties, and we're constantly questioning

our own abilities.

A daily affirmation is intended to break that cycle

by reinforcing positive thoughts about yourself.

How do you do this?

By reading a script in front of a mirror every morning.

I am beautiful, (text popping)

confident and strong. (text popping)

And the repetition is supposed to change

how you actually think about yourself.

Does it work?

Well, that's what I wanna find out,

and so I'm gonna try daily affirmations for the next week.

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Okay, and so to get started, I need to find an affirmation.

Now, I suppose I could write one myself

but I wanna get started off nice and easy.

So I'm just gonna Google it, and I'm just gonna see

if I can find any daily affirmations that really align

with what I'm going through right now.

And so primarily what I'm going through

is lack of motivation, self-doubt, and perfectionism.

So I don't know if I can find one

that hits all three, (chuckles)

or really there's probably like five or 10 things

that are going on right now.

But anyway, I'm gonna find one that fits best

with what I'm going through,

and then I'm gonna do it.

(uplifting instrumental music)

So let's do it.

(uplifting instrumental music) (keyboard keys clacking)

(whistling)

I don't like these.

(laughing)

Okay. No, this is so bad.

This is gross.

I thought an affirmation was like a paragraph.

This is fucking hard.

I don't think I can do this. (laughing)

Oh my God.

I don't think I can do it.

These are so corny. (clicking)

I'd rather do cold showers every day for an entire year.

Then have to read this out loud.

It's fine.

It's fine.

This is cool.

Nobody's going to laugh at me.

Okay, so I have found one that feels somewhat reasonable

for me.

It's not completely corny and over the top, and it seems to

have some of what I'm going through, baked into it

and so I'm going to do it.

Now.

(sigh)

(clears throat)

Life doesn't have to be perfect, to be beautiful.

I am more than enough.

Okay. Don't joke.

This is serious.

Take it seriously.

Peace and happiness are inside me. (laughs)

It's hard not to like, okay, this is serious.

This is real. This is real.

Okay, here we go.

(laughs)

If you can't already tell daily affirmations

aren't exactly my thing.

I'm not into woo woo self-development stuff.

And this is clearly not in my very small comfort zone

but I'm a strong believer

in experimentation and testing your own assumptions

and since I'm currently in a funk, I thought, why not?

In fact, I think this should actually be an ongoing series

on this channel.

We can call it.

Don't knock it because you shouldn't knock it

until you try it unless we're talking about drugs

because then you should definitely try it.

Don't try it.

Don't do drugs kids.

It's a bad idea.

I accept and love myself for who I am.

That's it?

That was it. That's not bad.

I can get used to that.

It was weird in the beginning, but cool.

(alarm)

All right, so I've been doing this daily affirmation thing

for a couple of days now.

It's been going pretty well

but I feel like there's something missing.

I think it's more of the personal touch,

so catering the daily affirmations to my own life

and more to the things that I'm going through as-as

great as it feels

looking in the mirror and calling myself beautiful.

I want to kind of narrow it

in on myself and-and my life more specifically.

And so I figured I should get some help with this.

And so I'm going to actually ask Natalie to help me

out in crafting the perfect affirmation.

All right, Nat, so I need your help.

So I've been working on daily affirmations

- Have you? Did you start?

- Yeah, I did actually look it, these are the

- No, you didn't.

- Yeah, look it, these are the daily affirmations.

- Oh my god, really?

- Yeah, yeah

(laughs)

- Do we even know each other?

You want me to write one?

- Yeah, so this is the deal is that these are

daily affirmations I just pulled from the internet

and some of them are really corny.

Like it's, it's been kind of funny

but it's like, I am strong, beautiful and confident.

I just ripped, I just pulled one.

- You are strong.

- I know.

- Beautiful and confident.

- It actually felt good to-to go through that

but I kind of want something a little bit more personalized.

I feel like, you know me better than anybody

and so you'll be able to like

you understand my insecurities, the things that I go through

- and also your values, like you value things

like relationships and quality of relationships.

- Yeah. So help me write affirmation

and then I'm gonna do it.

- Your not going to look, right?

- Nope.

- [Matt] You feel good about them?

- Yeah, I think they're really good.

- [Matt] Great.

- Yep, I put a lot of thought into them.

- [Matt] Give me, thank you.

Now I've got an audience for my affirmation.

That's all right. You can just stand out of frame.

I have never done a daily affirmation

with an audience before, so okay, here we go.

- [Natalie] Read it out loud.

- I'm trying.

I'm trying.

Okay, here we go.

Just because you have to shave your nose does not

mean you are not worthy.

There comes a day when you realize

that it's actually impossible to hum while holding your nose

and you're 100% okay with that.

That's like about acceptance.

That's like nice.

If avocados teach us anything

it's that you don't have to be rock hard to be delicious.

That's really beautiful.

And that's it.

Those are my daily affirmations now.

Yeah, you did a great job.

- [Natalie] Oh, good. I'm glad.

I might have to change these.

- No, you're welcome.

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All right, so I think it's safe to say

that Natalie's daily affirmations aren't gonna really work

out for me.

And so I want to find some daily affirmations

that really resonate with me to wrap up

this experiment and to see

if it really can make a positive change in my life.

And so what I'm going to do is

because I don't want to just write these from scratch.

I'm not super confident

that I'll be able to do a good job myself.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to look

up my personality type online.

Now this isn't something that's necessarily backed

by science but I have found it to be pretty accurate

in the past.

The personality types that I typically look at

are called Enneagrams.

And so I think there are like nine types

of Enneagrams and I find that I resonate most with type one.

The type one Enneagram is

defines somebody that's rational and idealistic, principled,

purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionist.

So right there, you can already see

that that pretty much aligns with my personality.

(typing)

All right,

so I'm all wrapped up with my new daily affirmations.

What I've done is I've pulled some new ones using

my Enneagram type one here.

I've also pulled some of my favorites from the old one

that I was doing.

I didn't take any of Nat's, not even happy wife, happy life.

And I also did write a couple original ones that I

didn't see there, but I was inspired by-by what

I read online to make a new one.

And so let me read a couple of these to you

that I think maybe resonate the most with me.

I release my need for control.

I am perfect, even in all my imperfections,

I set reasonable expectations with myself.

I think that's a really big one.

I have enough to be happy in this moment.

That's-that's one that's that I-that I wrote

that's definitely deeply rooted in minimalism and really

figuring out how much is enough for you.

No matter how long you've been practicing minimalism,

intentionality, whatever.

This is something you constantly have to remind yourself

that you are enough and you have enough.

And so I'm going to give a crack at this

the new daily affirmations

and see how these go for the next couple of days.

Heading into this experiment

I wanted to hate it.

I really did.

I had a bias going into this.

I'm not going to lie.

I thought daily affirmations were dumb.

They were cliche.

And I was certain that there was no way