Aye':
Anytime I begin talking much about affirmations I'm in danger of becoming a bit preachy, so I don't talk about them a lot. For me, my most valuable affirmations are ones of gratitude, which I try to do as many times every day as I can remember during an idle moment. I'm a complete believer that those have changed my life, reversed some fundamental, negative patterns of thinking... made my life a better place. I've explained somewhere on the threads, or on my blog, how I use those.
But when I only have a moment I use the simplest one I've ever come up with:
I'm grateful for everything that's ever happened to me;
I'm grateful for everything that's happening to me now;
I'm grateful for everything that's going to happen to me in the future.
If I find there's any place I haven't managed to make this true, I examine whatever the experience is and find ways I can be grateful for it.
I began doing forgiveness affirmations about a decade ago, forgiving everyone I could think of whom I believed had done me wrong in any way, wishing them the best, meaning it, starting with the 'worst offenders', eventually getting down to the guy who just shot me a finger in traffic. Difficult job of work, but worth it.
For winning affirmations, hell aye, I believe everything that happens to me in life is a win. I do a sort of mantra on some events I'd like to see come into my life, such as understanding these communist lottery numbers, but it's too simple and redundant to give a lot of words to, explaining.
In short, I see myself as the luckiest, most fortunate man who's ever trod this planet. Affirmations helped me to recognize it and know it's true, why it's true, and cause me to believe at a foundation level that there's no person on earth who shouldn't want to be me, whereas, I would absolutely refuse to be anyone else.
Thanks again for a great thread,
Jack