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“I realized that the words you hear shape you, but the most important words you’ll ever hear in your entire life are the words you say to yourself.”
― Marisa Peer

“Focus only on what you want to move towards and accomplish, never on the opposite, which is what you want to leave behind. This becomes easier as you find the flip side of every negative thought and use that instead. • Whatever we focus on we move towards. • Whatever we focus on we experience and feel. • Whatever we focus on we get more of; it becomes more real to us.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“So much depression is down to people not doing what they want to with their lives and suffering because of it. I”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“One of the reasons men love stockings, heels, lipstick, eyeshadow, long silky hair, and hairless legs is because it is entirely the opposite of them. They also love curves and the waist to hip ratio since it’s something they don’t have. Women tend to like square jaws, muscly arms and chests, and deep voices as this is something they don’t have. Keep these opposites active and obvious in your sex life.”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“If your habitual shame dates back to childhood, it is very likely that it is not your shame. It is likely that your mother or father or grandparents instilled in you their own sense of shame about not measuring up, and then made it so familiar to you that you feel as though it is yours. It is an unfortunate fact that it’s possible for us to learn shame. Just as you can make a cat or dog feel shameful if you yell at it each time it jumps on the couch, you can make a human feel shame if they don’t live up to some culturally imposed standard which you remind them of constantly.”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“One of the most important lessons I ever learnt was to stop fearing rejection.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“You can share a bathroom and pee while your partner is in the shower. It’s wonderful to have this security, but it is not erotic.”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“to find connection, and to avoid rejection. If you dig deep enough into the emotional problems of almost anyone, you can trace their issues back to a lack of fulfilment of those two needs. It's really that simple because that truth is so powerful and part of its strength is its simplicity.”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“The only risk in life is to not take the risk; not taking risks is the biggest gamble of all.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“Not letting in criticisms and insults is one of the most beneficial things you can do to boost your self-esteem.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“You must write out your goals, think about your goals and talk about your goals and make plans to achieve them so your subconscious mind then works to make your goals come to fruition.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“• Your past is not you. • Your bank account is not you. • Your body is not you. • Your weight is not you. • Your age is not you. • Your job is not you.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“By changing what you link pain and pleasure to, and by seeing that no one can reject you, you will stop avoiding situations and live a fuller life.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“link a huge amount of pleasure to achieving all your goals, having high self-esteem, liking yourself and being happy.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“You must say I AM ENOUGH constantly, say it out loud, say it with feeling, say it like you mean it and say it over and over again and do so for weeks until it sinks in and replaces the feeling that you are not enough which may be holding you back.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr, Spokesperson and Leader”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“I have ultimate confidence’ or • ‘I have regained the huge amount of self-esteem I was born with’ • ‘I like myself and I believe in myself”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“you have the power to not allow that.”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“The more you practise being confident and happy the more it will become your natural and automatic state. At”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“In order to have real inner confidence and lasting self-esteem you must know, feel and believe that you are enough because this realisation is very much at the heart of confidence of all types.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“So the key is repetition of these positive visualisations. It takes repeating and practising something twenty-one times over twenty-one days for the brain to create new neurological habit pathways, and in turn it takes twenty-one days for those pathways to begin to diminish if you cease the actions. Various studies have shown that it takes the brain a minimum of ten days and a maximum of twenty-one days to let go of an old belief and replace it with another one. Twenty-one days of affirmations and new habits of language and”
― Marisa Peer, You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting...Forever

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we have been waiting for, we are the change that we seek.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“as far behind you as you can, look behind you and notice where it is. Now return your arm to the beginning position in front of you then close your eyes for a moment and just imagine and see your arm moving even further, up to 25 per cent, behind you. Really see this in your mind for a moment. Now tell yourself your arm is going to move 25 per cent further. Say this to yourself three or four times. Now open your eyes, repeat the arm moving out behind you procedure and notice just how much further your arm will move.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“When you know and believe you are enough you don’t need more. When you feel and believe you are not enough you will always want more.”
― Marisa Peer, You Can Be Thin: The Ultimate Programme to End Dieting...Forever

“One of the rules of the mind is that feelings will ALWAYS overcome logic as they are so much more powerful, so it stands to reason we have to change the feelings rather than the logic. We have to change the feelings that make you hold back and fear taking risks or taking action. This is exactly what you are going to learn to do. By changing the feelings about putting yourself forward, being the centre of attention or speaking to strangers, those actions will cease to be a worry to you and you will find you can enjoy them.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“Here is how to express yourself: forgive, let go, move on, have high self-esteem and BE HAPPY.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“The key is not to try to belong or try to fit in but to feel comfortable enough in ourselves to feel good about being around other people and to radiate that out to others.”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day

“Despite all this, my successful clients seem to share a common trait when it comes to tackling their problems and going after their dreams. Each morning, when they get up, they do what they hate or dislike and get it done first. Indeed, doing what you hate—and getting it out of the way by doing it first—is one of the quickest ways to inject success into your life. If you can create this habit and apply it across your life, you will see your life change.”
― Marisa Peer, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror And Change Your Life

“What is necessary is the ability to get an image of how you plan to be and to hold that image in your mind, relax into the image and use language that matches the image, and keep rerunning the image so you are rehearsing it to such an extent that your brain thinks, ‘I have been here before, I know how to do this, it is”
― Marisa Peer, Ultimate Confidence: The Secrets to Feeling Great About Yourself Every Day