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Repeating positive affirmations to yourself — “This is going to be great!” — might help get into a productive flow.

Convincing yourself that you want to do it or that you’ll feel so much better if you stick to it is easier than trying to force yourself into it.

Positive affirmations can actually be detrimental.

If you have low self-esteem, repeating feel-good phrases can make you feel worse. And for those with high self-esteem, although positive affirmations tend to improve your mood only slightly, there's no lasting effect.

H. Bernard Wechsler believes that repeating positive affirmations 30 seconds a day for 21 days helps to "create linked brain cells (neurons) in permanent neural networks."