So many times I've heard people say the power of life and death is in the tongue. (That is actually a verse from the Bible - Proverbs 18:21) I would take it a little further to say there is power in the self-talk we create, or the story to which we give life. If that is so... then it must mean that what we say can breathe life into reality. Wow!!
Helping you find Your Inner Winner© is a journey to which I've now committed... both in the work-setting and in your personal life. So many of us find ourselves stuck in a narrative that is leading us down a dead-end street. Is that really where we want to be? Locked in one of life's cul-de-sacs with limited options and feeling like the only way out is to retrace the tortured route that got us to 'stuck'?
I'm proposing that the way we talk... and the story / narrative we create for ourselves will change the way we think. It will change the way we think about ourselves, the way we think about our past, and the way we think about what is possible.
Self-talk is a potent pill. The way we talk to and about ourself can open up possibilities or it can lead us to feeling stuck.
Yuck!!
That is why I'm challenging each of us to revise our self-talk and change our narrative.
Want to test the power of self-talk? Think of a time when your own self-talk predicted the way things turned out for you. I would love for you to share that story.
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