AffirmIt - make it happen this year.

Let your iPhone help you with your new year affirmations.

Type in your carefully worded assertion, press play and see your statement repeatedly written out for you.

An electronic prayer wheel, if you will.

One important teaching of Tao, derived from its Zen tradition, states that the material world is illusory and only the realm of spirituality is real.

Modern thinkers are thinking along the same lines and leveraging these Tao principles to create success in life. Two examples are Mike Hernacki, author of The Ultimate Secret to Getting Absolutely Everything You Want and Scott Adams, cartoonist of the wildly popular Dilbert strip.

Hernacki's secret is that in order to achieve something, you must be absolutely willing to do everything it takes, and you must take action with total initiative. If you can do that, you will see your goal rushing to completion, and you end up not having to do all the things you thought you had to after all.

There are some wonderful implications to this principle, but what makes it really work is the fundamental belief that all thoughts have an objective reality and physical existence. This is in complete accordance with Zen and Tao teachings.

Adams asserts that existence is far more than the limited reality we can perceive with our limited vision. This is, again, in complete accordance with Zen and Tao teachings. He began suspecting this truth and, later on, he was able to prove it to himself via his use of affirmations.

Affirmations are a way of bending reality to your will. You simply decide on a specific goal that you can visualize, and write it down fifteen times a day in the following form: I, Joe Blow, get/do/become/whatever something/someone/whatever!

If you can do this consistently, your visualized desire will materialize.

The difficult part is the consistency. Most people won't be able to last long enough to see it work, but with AffirmIt there's no excuse.

So make all your new year dreams and wishes come true!