Self-Talk ~ building your life one word at a time

Self - Talk is the single most powerful influence on self esteem, self worth, and the ability to achieve your highest goals and dreams of life. Did you know - we have about 50,000 thoughts a day? Whether these thoughts are positive or negative they have a very powerful effect on your life. The continual stream of conversation that goes on inside your head is determining how your life's journey will unfold.

~Very much like a "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" ~ 
 Thinking about something so much it actually happens.

Positive or Negative!

Self-Talk is often the product of the values or behaviors of childhood.

It's hard to corral 50,000 thoughts daily but if you start with correcting the most prevalent negative thought and turning it into a positive, it will start breaking the pattern instilled most likely from childhood.

Here are some ideas to create change in your thinking patterns:

• Start tuning into your thoughts
• Carry a notebook and journal as many thoughts as you can
• Sort thoughts into three categories
• first: write what you want to happen in your life
• second: write your first self response to item in column 1
• third: write an opposite thought of the one in two previous columns

• Take a look at your list ~ if column two is more positive than three, you are on the right road. If column three is more positive than two, this is what you want interject into your head chatter. 

                What I want to happen                My self talk                      My opposite thoughts

Here's a parting thought: your subconscious does not differentiate one thought from another - it doesn't know that you don't really mean the negative words. It just plays them out into your life experience, as if that's what you really want to happen. 

In other words ....your thoughts are very powerful.  

Choose them wisely.