When it comes to motivating yourself to be a better person,
to do better at work or to create a happier family life you
need to understand the importance of taking control of your
self talk.
Do you ever pay attention to the thoughts inside your mind?
And more importantly do you ever notice the way in which
you talk to yourself?
Here are three tips you can use right away to motivate
yourself:
1 Talk To Yourself The Way You Talk To Someone You Love
Be honest! Is it true you sometimes insult yourself, curse
yourself and say horrible things about your abilities?
If you spoke like this regularly to the people you care
about they would leave and never talk to you again. There
is no excuse for treating yourself so badly.
Talk to yourself the way you would talk to someone you
deeply love. Be respectful, patient and understanding. Be
slow to anger, quick to praise and grateful for the
opportunity to listen.
Be on your best behavior when you talk to yourself and you
will find that you treat other people better as well. This
in turn will cause people to respond more positively to
whatever you say. These very people will be more inclined
to help you get what you want.
2 Pump Up The Volume
Very often we go through our day with an internal dialogue
buzzing away in the background. We mutter to ourselves
about what we need to do without feeling particularly
inspired to do anything other than what we have to do.
This is not an effective strategy for self-motivation!
What you need to do instead is to turn up the volume,
inject some passion into your words and talk to yourself
with enthusiasm. You would not have much luck motivating
someone else to take action without putting some energy
into your words. You need to do the same to motivate
yourself.
The next time you want to motivate yourself to do something
talk to yourself the same way you would if someone was
standing before you waiting to be inspired.
Speak loudly with passion and excitement either aloud or to
yourself inside your head. The more energy you put into it
the easier it will be to light the fire inside you that
sparks you into action.
3 Know How To Feel Good When You Are Having A Tough Day
No matter how focused, positive and hard working you are
there will still be days when nothing seems to go your way.
It is on days like this that you must take charge of your
brain and take control of your self talk.
You need a back catalogue of memories you can replay to
make yourself feel good. Music does it for me. I have so
many songs I love to hear that I just pick one out and
listen to it in my mind.
In a moment I can listen to sounds that make me feel
fantastic simply by choosing to. For best results imagine
you have a volume control with bass and treble. Make the
music sound rich, loud and resonant.
A friend of mine has such a great memory that he will
listen to an entire CD in his mind. How about that for a
quick and easy way to feel good whenever you are having a
tough day?
One final way to use this tip...
Replay happy memories of people telling you how much they
value and
appreciate you. Hear them saying what a difference you are
making and soak up those wonderful feelings of appreciation.
It really is your choice as to how you run your brain.
Choose to feel great and your communication with yourself
and the outside world will become remarkable. Your
motivation will soar and getting more done each day will
just get easier and easier with eager people lining up to
help you.
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