Random Wisdom (or DUH)

Would you like to take control of how you react to events in your life and how they make you feel?

What you do and how you feel is partly determined by what you say to yourself. We all have an inner voice that’s talking to us, even if we don’t listen. What’s your inner voice telling you? I can’t do this? They won’t like me if I succeed? She’s too good for me? 

Maybe it’s saying different things. I love doing this. I have a right to succeed. I can do anything.

Be aware of what you’re saying to yourself, especially what you say repeatedly. This inner chatter is what shapes your actions and your emotions. What is your inner voice telling you? What do you want it to tell you? Write the script, practice the script and see how it affects you in a powerful way. The script sometimes goes by the name Affirmations. An affirmation is a positive power statement that you repeat over and over again until it is programmed in your core.

I suggest that you write some affirmations for specific situations. What will you say to yourself when you have give a big presentation? Or when your boss calls you to his office? Or when you make a dreadful mistake at work or in another part of your life? If you make your affirmations specific to situations that occur in your life, you set yourself up to deal with those situations in a positive, productive and powerful way.

I say my affirmations out loud several times every morning and night. During the day I just read them once or twice. When I encounter a new situation that makes me uncomfortable, I listen to my inner chatter and I try to come up with a new script.

So listen to your inner voice and if you don’t like it, rewrite the script.