Personality Type Three: The Motivator
The Success-Oriented, Pragmatic Type

I now release...

• being obsessed by my hostile feelings toward others.
• believing that sabotaging others will make things better for me.
• feeling jealous of others and their good fortune.
• my fear of failing and being humiliated.
• fearing that I am inadequate and will be rejected.
• feeling that I must conceal my mistakes and limitations.
• closing down my feelings in order to function.
• betraying my own integrity to get the admiration of others.
• attempting to misrepresent myself and my abilities.
• the grandiose expectations I have of myself.
• craving constant attention and affirmation.
• using arrogance to compensate for my own insecurity.
• desiring to impress others with my performance.
• concealing myself behind masks.
• comparing myself with others.
• driving myself relentlessly to be the best.

I now affirm...

• that I have value regardless of my achievements.
• that I am centered and emotionally available.
• that I am caring and have a good heart.
• that I take in the love others give me.
• that I am responsible to those who look up to me.
• that I am happy to work for the good of others.
• that I develop my true talents by accepting who I am.
• that I delight in the accomplishments and successes of others.
• that I can reveal my real self without being afraid.

Don Richard Riso

Enneagram Transformations
Release and Affirmations for Healing Your Personality Types
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993, 129 pages