There are going to be times when you are going to wake up and feel overly pessimistic. You’ll be walking around all day reaffirming to yourself that you are a loser and that the whole world is against you.
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You’ll smile at someone and they don’t smile back – you tell yourself its cause you’re ugly
A dog will bark at you for no reason (as they do) – you tell yourself you stink and it can read your aura of stink
You’ll come home and your spouse/partner yells at you for not picking up your socks and cleaning the bathroom – you tell yourself you’re useless hours after he/she has stopped saying it to you
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Negative self talk will steal away your drive and kill your motivation to do anything. The bad habit of having poor self esteem is usually something that is instilled in us at an early age by authoritative figures who talk down to us and make us feel worthless or like we can’t do anything.
I found that the easiest way to shut out the negative internal voices is to listen to a positive external voice; ideally positive talk from people who I deem credible. When I say credible, I mean people who I would take seriously or who present information in such a way that I feel that it makes sense to me personally.
If you don’t have an mp3 player or any sort of portable music player, it is time to get one and fill the playlist with everything from Anthony Robbins personal power to Maxwell’s Psycho Cybernetics.
If not audiotapes, play stuff that makes you happy or puts you in a positive state of mind. This could be the ending song of Dirty Dancing, the audio version of Mama Mia! Or your grandmothers voice telling you what a good boy or girl you are, it doesn’t matter.
The idea is to have a voice in your head other than your own that makes you feel happier or good about yourself.
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