What To Say When You Talk To Your Self

by Shad Helmstetter

SELF-TALK FOR TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF I take full responsibility for everything about me––even the thoughts that I think. I am in control of the vast resources of my own mind. I alone am responsible for what I do and what I tell myself about me. No one can share this responsibility with me. I also allow others to accept their responsibilities far themselves and I do not try to accept their responsibilities for them. I enjoy being responsible. It puts me in charge of being me––and that’s a challenge I enjoy. I allow no one else, at any time, to assume control or responsibility over my life or over anything that I do. My responsibility to others is an extension of my own responsibility to myself. I choose to leave nothing about me up to chance. When it comes to me––and anything in my life––I choose to CHOOSE. My choices are mine alone to make for myself. I do not, at any time, allow anyone else to make my choices for me. And I accept full responsibility for every choice and decision I make. I always meet all of the obligations which I accept. And I accept no obligations which I will not meet. I am trustworthy. I can be counted on. I have accepted winning responsibility for myself––and I always live up to the responsibilities I accept. There is no they on whom I lay the blame, or with whom I share my own personal responsibilities. I have learned the great secret of mastering my own destiny. I have learned that “they” is “me.” I h...