Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org, and I have a question for you.

Have you ever doubted yourself?

Doubted whether you could handle the kind of tough situation that came up for you in life. So maybe life

threw you a curveball. Maybe you're in this position right now where you're just dealing

with something, whether it's a relationship or some trouble at work

just something that is exceptionally hard and you feel like you don't know if you can do it

you don't know if you can handle it why why is it so hard, why is life unfair,

what's going to happen if you fail, how are you going to get through this, maybe there's a money

problem, you don't know how you're going to get those bills paid, and you don't know what kind of catastrophe will happen if you don't.

Maybe there's a relationship and it's going to break up and you don't know how to salvage it or what you can do and it seems like it's a lost cause.

Well, I think we've all been there. I've certainly had many moments like that in my life.

And one of the things that I've been doing lately as a practice to build myself up against these kinds of situations

I've been doing affirmations and specifically the affirmation that I've been doing is one that goes like this. Try it on for size and see how you like it and the

affirmation is I can handle any challenge any situation that life throws at me.

So that's my affirmation.

I can handle any challenge,

any situation that life throws at me.

Now why did I pick this affirmation and what's the importance of it? So the reason I

brought this up is because I've been doing also not just affirmations but I've also

been doing a contemplation exercise where I've been thinking about this.

So by affirmation I mean that this is something that I say to myself for at least five minutes

every day.

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