The Rule of
Affirmations is a means of reaching an end by, in essence, being
stubborn. To begin, you must have a
goal. Say, for example, that your goal is to become a
pedant on
E2. By writing your goal on a piece of paper 15 times in a row
every day in the form "I,
your name here, will blah blah blah...." after an indeterminate (unless otherwise stated) period of time, you will reach your goal. Goals can be to become
rich or powerful, or less material things like becoming more
personable or friendly. And obviously an element of realism is required, if my
affirmation was "I,
lambda68, will be given 10 million dollars and a new decked-out
PowerBook G4 by a bum on the street
tomorrow my affirmation would almost certainly fail, even if I did write it 15 times.
Affirmations certainly work, I have the hardware I have now because of (largely because of, at least) them. However, these goals may take more than just the affirmations. To become a pedant, you need something like 5000 write-ups and absurd numbers in XP. These things may not happen by themselves. Perhaps people will spontaneously upvote all of your nodes, but you'll have to write the write-ups. Keep it realistic, folks, but don't give up!