What To Say When You Talk To Your Self

by Shad Helmstetter

Looking for a Better Way

Most of us want and need at least a successful job or career, a good family life, and reasonable financial security. We expect that from life. We know deep inside that we deserve our fair share and we have every right to attain it.

Why do we not get from life many of the things we would like to have—and know we should?

AN UNLIMITED LIFE OF PRACTICAL POTENTIAL

was told that it was bad to have your head in the clouds and it was good to have your feet on the ground.

if I was going to find what I was looking for, I would have to set a new course and search in a different direction. To find the specific answer I sought, I would have to embark upon a journey of my own.

there had to be a better way, something that was obvious perhaps, something that might have been overlooked.

mastering one’s future must surely start with manag...

if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part o...

much of the field of “success,” I found a consistent promise—the promise of our success, waiting just around the corner.

FINDING A SOLUTION THAT LASTS

You will become what you think about most; your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming––what you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.

We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programmed to do.

We want to create success with “rules of success,” but that’s not how the brain works; that’s not how the brain is wired.

we become the living result of our own thoughts.

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

incredibly powerful personal biochemical computer that each of us has, is capable of doing for you anything reasonable that you’d like it to do. But you have to know how to treat it; you have to know how to wire it in the right way. If you do it right, and give it the right directions, it will do the right thing—it will work for you in the right way.

But if you give your mental computer the wrong directions, it will act on those wrong directions; it will continue to respond to the negative programming that you and the rest of the world have been giving it. You have literally been wiring your brain in the wrong way, physically—without even being aware of it.

THE POWER OF REPETITION

Repetition is a convincing argument.

Eventually we believed what others told us and what we told ourselves most; we began to live out the picture of ourselves we had created in our minds.

doing, we created that wall of failure and self-doubt,

brain’s neuroplasticity––its ability to rewire itself throughout our entire lifetimes––is

when you decide to apply that new understanding to your everyday life in a simple, dedicated way, the unfilled promise at the end of your success journey can, at last, be realized.