This Is Your Life

When you set goals and write them down, when you write and speak affirmations too you do not necessarily move your life forward. The reason is simple: you can only be what you allow yourself to be as defined by your self-image.
If you make an affirmation or set a goal that your self image says does not fit for you then you waste your time and energy, In fact, you actually weaken yourself simply by thinking such thoughts.
Real change is only possible when you alter your self-image. How do you know what your self image is? Look at your life. The people and events that compose your world are there because they reflect who you are in the world. Like attracts like. Want to attract different people? Want to attract and live different experiences? You gotta become the kind of person who attracts those people and those experiences.

Only conscious living allows your self-image and therefore your self esteem to change.