What To Say When You Talk To Your Self

by Shad Helmstetter

Personal growth stasis: Stops your growth Wastes your time Drains your energy Lowers your self-esteem Affects your health Makes you feel guilty Keeps you off focus Justifies doing nothing Stops you from setting new goals Makes inaction a habit Reinforces negative programs Causes you to fail

doing?) But perhaps the biggest problem of all is that living in stasis robs you of your spirit, the wonderful, greater part of you that sees the better you, and whose job it is to take you to your greatest heights.

1. As you read this, set a goal to bring positive self- talk permanently into your life.

2. Listen to self-talk sessions a minimum of fifteen minutes a day.

3. Write a list of the old, negative self-talk programs you’ve been using in the past that you’d like to change.

write it down. The reason for doing this is that when you want to overcome stasis, it’s all about awareness and focus.

The more you’re aware of your self-talk and your goal to change it each day, the more you focus on doing that thing, the more neural activity you’ll create, and the faster and stronger you’ll begin to wire the new directions into your brain.

If we take the old images of ourselves with us wherever we go and into whatever we do, how could we expect to do better the next time we try?

Change occurs either as a result of something outside of you that happens to you, or as a result of something within yourself which causes the change to take place.

learn how to think what you think and you will begin to determine and redirect most of your future for yourself.

If you learn how to think what you think, you will put yourself back in control.

Learning to manage, control, and direct the resources of your own mind is the greatest opportunity you will ever have.