Positive self-affirmations can be a powerful tool for improving your self-esteem, motivation, and overall well-being.
If you want to boost your confidence and achieve your goals (even pass your boards), try incorporating positive self-affirmations into your daily routine. Being positive will help you stay on course.
Keep these positive statements handy, and read them whenever you need a boost!
- Some study every day, even just a little, is a significant step forward.
- I only have to work on it a little bit today.
- I can start to study even though I don’t feel as ready as I’d like.
- Only 25 more minutes … Only 25 more minutes …
- Even if it’s hard, I’ll figure it out; I always do.
- I can learn from my mistakes.
- I will take it one step at a time.
- I will focus on this task now and not worry about what will come later.
- I bet many people don’t understand this either.
- I am confident that I will learn the material because I have scheduled several content review cycles.
- The work I need to do is a simple and enjoyable task.
- I feel calm and accomplished when I complete each small task.
- Of course I can get this done.
- I am making progress every day.
- Others struggled while working too.
- I am building good lifelong habits of learning.
- I know I can; I know I will!
- I deserve to take time off to rest.
- I am learning how to learn more efficiently and effectively.
- I am using new strategies to learn and enjoy the process.
- I can do this.
- Others think I can do it, and I can.
- I am a very strong and determined person.
- I am persistent and capable.
- I’m open to comments that improve my ability to learn and retain information.
- I am smart enough to pass my boards.
- I will reward myself for small bits of progress.
- I can be comfortable with confusion, knowing it leads to answers.
- Switching to another topic will not get the challenging topic completed.
- If you feel a bit burned out today, start with something easier. The easier stuff needs to get done, too, so you are still moving toward the finish line.
- Don’t let the inner critic disrupt your thinking.
- Any work is better than no work.
- Keep it simple!
- The study you do today will make it easier to do questions tomorrow.
- Take a moment to reflect: “I have completed 30 MCQs in 30 minutes by
staying focused.” - By studying every day, it makes it easier to study the next day.
- Keep focused; you can do it.
- You can successfully pass your boards!
- You can make this work.
- It is important to follow through, and it will be worth the time invested.
- Enjoy the process.
- New learning strategies will help you understand and remember the information better.
- Remember, this is not your life’s work, just the keys to the club.
- It’s not the end of the world if you miss something.
- You’re building on existing knowledge. Everyone adds incrementally to what they learned before. You are expanding and reshaping your knowledge base.
- Doing anything towards your goal is helpful.
- Slow and steady gets you to the finish line just fine!
- Look forward and live in the moment.
- Just do it!
- Trust.
- With effort, time, and patience, your learning issues will be understood.
- Reflective writing to recap what I’ve learned helps deepen my understanding.
- Creating visual images of what I’ve learned helps me remember the content.
- Testing myself by doing MCQs to discover what I know may surprise me.
- It’s ok if you don’t understand something right now — remain curious to figure it out.
- There’s no such thing as perfect scores all the time.
- Just keep plugging.
_______________
Linda L. Carr, Ph.D., Founder/Principal at Coaching for Medical Specialty Boards, is a medical educator and learning specialist who coaches physicians preparing for specialty boards through virtual, one-on-one coaching. Visit www.DrLindaCarr.org to learn more about her program and download her FREE Study Guide.