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Your positive mindset provides the cornerstone for achieving your dreams. It’s how you expand your influence and help elevate those goals important to you. Learn how to develop a positive mindset in this book of affirmations.

We too often listen to negative self-chatter about ourselves or others but are not so inclined to listen to our instincts or trust ourselves. Where would you be in your life today if you had trusted yourself in the past and not talked yourself out of things that felt right? When you listen to Trust Yourself from My Mind Valley, your mind-set will be reoriented toward taking that leap and betting on yourself. Just absorb the material and let the change happen without you even knowing it!

Have you ever imagined what it would feel like to be profoundly connected with the universal energy and power and experience the peace that comes along with that? At My Mind Valley, we have developed affirmations that will allow you to invite the spiritual connection we all yearn for, whether to connect better with ourselves, people we care about, or the world in which we live.

Many of us believe we are just not very creative. This couldn’t be further from the truth. It just means we haven’t unlocked the creative force that lives within us.

Developing personal power is all about gaining a greater sense of self. It is about your belief in your own competency and your self-worth. It is about your self-confidence in both who you are and your ability to conquer challenges. Unfortunately, we are often so caught up in our day-to-day routines that we never take the time to think about how to break our cycle of fear, unworthiness, and self-sabotage. Nor do we wonder about the barriers that prevent us from pointing to our true North. However, with this remarkable affirmations in Develop Personal Power, tapping in to your personal power has never been easier.

People tend to be relentlessly focused on what happened or what will happen. The problem is neither of those thought paradigms allows you to solve the problem of the moment, and the best part is anyone can acquire this mind-set with just a bit of fortitude and our awesome affirmation tool, which cuts straight to the solution requiring minimum effort.

Thinking big is all about creating a mentality of lofty thoughts and ideals, far beyond the musings of the daily rat race. It is about dreaming and envisioning what you can achieve on a bold scale - with no limits on your thinking. It involves being open-minded, positive, and imaginative and seeing opportunities in the bigger picture.

Inner peace is a major factor for success in your personal and professional lives - in fact it is something everyone wants, but it’s hard to find and maintain. Fortunately for you, our program is the easiest and quickest way to obtain and sustain inner peace without having to spend countless hours with gurus or on deep therapy.

Using the Develop Discipline and Order affirmations, you will achieve the mind-set you need to become the organized and disciplined person you have always aspired to be.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is not that one group failed and the other didn’t. Rather, one overcame fears of failure by learning from mistakes and pushing through in spite of the fear. The other was captivated by fear and stopped right there. So, halt your fear of failure and join the list of successful people. Successful people have all failed, but got up, climbed their own ladder, and claimed their crown. You can do the same with our transformational tool - Get over Fear of Failure words of affirmation.

In psychology it has long been believed that people who procrastinate have a faulty sense of time - thinking they will have more time to get things done than they actually do. Other research suggests that procrastinators are trying to avoid distress. Ironically, procrastination is the cause of much stress, anxiety, guilt, shame, self-criticism, and lowered self-esteem, which all lead to health issues and poorer performance in the long run.

The magical quality that sets some apart from others is called "charisma". Many of us dream of becoming such magnets of confidence and influence but often lack the tools and techniques necessary to make this happen. Learn how you can exert sheer charm, power, and magnetism with this affirmation program that will transform you into your natural, authentic self.

When around new people there are often awkward moments when neither of you know what to say. Maybe you fumble and say something stupid. Afterwards, you say to yourself, "I can’t believe I said that". Speaking in public with confidence not only means you are a "public speaker". It can put you in line for the next promotion, or keep your head off the chopping block when your company is making people redundant. It also means connecting to people you want to connect with, at social events, and elsewhere.

This positive affirmation program will help you get rid of bad habits that are keeping you awake at night, enabling gentle sleep for eight hours, 10 hours, or 12 hours by reprogramming your subconscious mind, so you are able to get the proper rest, clarity, and focus you need.

Cosa può permettersi chi non ha denaro? Non certo l'affetto, ma soltanto l'onore, per lo meno nella Sicilia di fine '800 che ci presenta Giovanni Verga. "Pane nero", pubblicata originariamente da Verga all'interno di "Novelle rusticane", ci mostra uno spaccato di miseria e povertà. Un testo che ancora oggi pone interrogativi e spunti di riflessione attualissimi.

Giovanni Verga ci presenta la vita di Pentolaccia, povero bracciante siciliano perdutamente innamorato de "la Venera". Inganni e tradimenti renderanno però la vita di Pentolaccia un vero inferno, fino al drammatico epilogo finale.

Verga ci racconta la storia di Jeli, ragazzo povero che vive da solo insieme alla pecore che porta al pascolo. Attraverso il suo rapporto conflittuale con Don Alfonso, ricco rampollo di famiglia, assistiamo alla graduale emarginazione di Jeli che, a causa della sua povertà e della sua condizione sociale, viene sempre più marginalizzato.

"Cavalleria Rusticana" racconta la storia di Turiddu, umile contadino siciliano innamorato della bella Lola, promessa sposa al ricco carrettiere Alfio. Gelosia, vendetta, umiliazione, passione... Sentimenti intensi che si incrociano nella Sicilia ottocentesca e che esploderanno in un drammatico duello finale.

Le altre donne del paese la temono perché è spregiudicata e disinibita. Gli uomini la guardano con un misto di paura e lussuria. Tutti la chiamano "la lupa", per quel suo spirito anticonformista così raro nella Sicilia ottocentesca. Una storia fatta di sentimenti fortissimi che sorprende il lettore per la sua intensità e per il suo climax drammatico ed avvincente.

Celebre storia d'amore tra una ragazza di buona famiglia e un bandito, "L'amante di Gramigna" venne portata sul grande schermo anche da Carlo Lizzani nel 1968, nel celebre film interpretato da Gian Maria Volonté e Stefania Sandrelli. In questa novella Verga ci racconta un amore intenso e unico, capace di sfidare leggi e convenzioni. Un sentimento totalizzante che legherà in maniera indissolubile la bella Peppa al bandito Gramigna.