ptWe all talk to ourselves, probably more than we realize.  Do you know how important your self talk is?

There is a line in the film “Facing the Giants” where a father tells his son “your actions will always follow your beliefs.”  Think about that, your beliefs are what is in your thoughts.

Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become habit, your habits become your character, and your character is your destiny.  It all starts with your thoughts.

So what are your thoughts?  What type of self talk are you saying to yourself?     When you make a mistake to you think to yourself “I am so stupid” or use some other form of negative talk to yourself?

If you do, those negative thoughts will break you down, day by day, week by week, year by year.  Finally, you convince yourself that you are what you say you are.

Now, what if  you build yourself up in your mind saying to yourself that you are good?  That you CAN do the new task they gave you at work?  When you make a mistake, what if you say to yourself, “well I just learned how not to do that.”

You see everything in life is a learning experience.  Everything.  When we make a mistake or do something wrong, that is the time to think about how you could do it differently next time.  A time to say “I tried it that way, and it didn’t work, so next time I will do it differently.”

Your thoughts,  how you talk to yourself, has power for determining who you are and who will become.  We can grow from our thoughts.

Wake up and tell yourself, I am a good person.  I will do great on the test today.   Say to yourself “I like me”, after all if you don’t like yourself, how can you expect others to like you?  Liking yourself is all about your thoughts or self talk.

So start today and  remove all those negative thoughts from your self talk vocabulary.  Use positive words when you talk to yourself, words like,  “I know”, “I’m happy”, “it’s a good day”, “I learned”, “I am improving”.  Take the word “can’t” out of your vocabulary, replace it with “I CAN.”

Most importantly,  begin your thoughts each day with “Lord help me….”, that thought alone, will start you on a new path toward success and power in your life.