Speaking of Self talk

We all engage in self-talk, whether it’s positive, “I’m the best” or negative, “I’ll never be good enough.” There are some attitudes that we may have accepted as children, that we are no longer aware of. Those unconsciously held beliefs may dictate our behavior, thinking, and choices.
We may know someone who says the same thing or does the same thing habitually and predictably.
We may not be aware of our habitual personality traits, but we all more or less live a ‘groundhog-day’ life without perhaps realizing it. Unless someone is very creative, pays attention, changes their responses to routine stimuli, has a “can do” attitude, then they’ve resigned themselves to a status quo existence.
The “status quo” remains so because people don’t take the time to think creatively about an alternative. The conception of a possibility is the first step to achieving it.
Some of us know what we want to do and some don’t.
I want to know what I came here to do and accept it.
I want to face my destiny, accept my destiny and improve, change, alter or enhance my destiny, to have a better destiny.
Do you know what it means to be self-deterministic?
Do you know where you came from and where you are going?
What is your self-talk?
Do you know how to change your self-talk?
What are your habitual mantras, slogans, sayings, remarks, comments? These habitual behaviors are all reflections of our thoughts and our attitudes. Our attitudes are the visible “iceberg” of our thoughts and life philosophy and are reflected in our habitual speaking.
Changing our ‘speaking’ will change our lives. Reflecting on our ideas will help us to determine whether those serve to create happiness or unhappiness in our lives.

For glean some good ideas to combat negative self-talk, listen to the interview with Aaron Anastasi about his online singing program: Superior Singing Method, and his book: “The Voice of Your Dreams” on the Boomer Business Owner Podcast.

In this interview, Aaron shared some of his methods for dealing with negative self-talk. One of the practices was his habit of reading or listening to a list of all the positive things that people had said about him. He’s advocating action as an antidote for negativity. Just get busy doing whatever, and persevere, and ignore the negative self-talk.