I am Amin Motin. For more than forty years I have practised affirmations daily — not as slogans on a mirror, but as a deliberate way of changing the running commentary most of us never chose. This site is where I write about what has actually worked.
I spent years being described as capable while quietly believing something else. I built a career across legal practice, software consultancy and corporate training, and none of it touched the voice that kept score in the background. External validation never reached it. Plenty of people know that gap intimately and assume it is a private defect.
What changed it, eventually, was not confidence or achievement. It was learning to answer that voice deliberately — consistently, with attention, and in my own words. The results were slow, then obvious, and then other people started remarking on them before I had said anything.
Everything here comes out of that. Practical writing on affirmations, meditation and mindset for people who are competent on the outside and less certain on the inside, and who would rather have something they can use on a Tuesday than a theory.
Short, practical pieces on the small daily habits that change how you speak to yourself.
Most mornings don’t start badly by accident. You reach for the phone before the kettle has boiled, take on everyone else’s news before your own day has begun, and by ten o’clock the tone is set. This is about changing the first ten minutes.
The word lazy gets used for a dozen different problems that have nothing to do with laziness. What is actually going on when the day disappears and nothing on the list gets touched.
You have picked the perfect words and you say them faithfully, and nothing is changing. Before you give up on affirmations altogether, three things worth checking first.
Short videos you can put on while you make a cup of tea. Each one carries its full set of affirmations written out underneath, so you can read along, or come back to the words later without replaying anything.
They pair well with the writing here: the articles explain why a practice works, the videos are the practice itself.
Every article, affirmation and resource on this site is written and reviewed by me personally. I write only about what I have practised, studied and used myself.
The background behind that: over four decades of daily affirmations practice, and formal work through the Silva Method, the Sedona Method and Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within, alongside ongoing study across positive psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, meditation, breathwork and counselling. I hold a certified life coaching qualification with a diploma in coaching. Before this became full-time work, I spent years in legal practice, software consultancy and professional training — which is mostly why I write for people under real professional pressure rather than from an ivory tower.
If the writing here is useful and you want the whole method in one place, I put it into a book. It covers how to write affirmations that hold up, when to say them, and why most people quietly abandon the practice in the third week.
Available on Amazon Kindle.