"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art" - Andy Warhol
Before we label "I AM", we feel that state. We feel sick before stating "I am sick", just as we feel healthy before consciously being it. Likewise for "I AM...poor / rich, free / stuck, etc", we feel before we label. The key is embodying the feeling, not just verbal affirmations.
"When you read a good book through a second time, you don't see something you didn't see before, you see something in yourself that wasn't there before."
"We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe." - Alan Watts
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius
"You're already that which you want to be and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it. To seek on the outside for that which you do not feel you are is to seek in vain, for we never find that which we want; we find only that which we are"-Neville Goddard