What To Say When You Talk To Your Self

by Shad Helmstetter

The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.

Leading behavioral researchers have told us that as much as seventy-seven percent of everything we think is negative, counterproductive, and works against us.

1. The first ingredient is: in order to work, and keep working, the new idea (or message) has to become physically wired into your brain.

2. The second ingredient for creating lasting, positive mental changes is: understanding how your brain gets wired, and the role you play in the wiring process.

3. The third ingredient for creating positive personal change––which always begins with mental change––is: a new, word-far-word set of directions, new programming to both your conscious and subconscious minds.

Whatever “thoughts” you programmed into your brain, or have allowed others to program into you, are affecting, directing, or controlling everything about you.

Through a natural law of cause and effect, when we improve ourselves, the things we would like to have in our lives follow naturally.

Improve who you are, and by that same law, you will improve your life.

Each of us has three resources which allow us to get through any given day. Those resources are our time, our energy, and our minds (what and how we think).

I happened upon what I thought to be the most exceptional self-improvement idea I had ever encountered. It was a simple idea, new at the time, which would require only that I spend twenty minutes each night writing my goals, reviewing my progress, and mentally visualizing reaching each goal I was setting.

Of the many ways you can use self-talk in its various forms, you will find that all self-talk suggestions or phrases fit into one of four categories: habit-changing, attitude-building, motivational, or situational self-talk.