“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” - Henry Ford

Forget believing that you are what you eat. The larger truth is that you are what you think. There is only one person responsible for your thoughts and that’s you. In truth, you are capable of changing your life for the better, just by getting your thinking under control.

What type of self-talk do you indulge in? Troubling thoughts regarding a situation may be your instinct telling you there’s danger. However, your negative thinking may be an act of self-sabotage.

We all have an inner voice leading up. Many people imagine the inner voice as two warring shoulder advisors. Whether you consider it to be your conscience or not, that inner voice seems to be taking everything it can.

You wake up in the morning and the voice is there, whether it starts speaking immediately or not. It follows you throughout your day and it’s that voice that has a nasty habit of keeping you awake as you toss and turn at night.

Conversations With Your Inner Voice

What does your inner voice say to you? Does it tell you that you’re good looking and wonderful as you gaze in the mirror getting ready in the morning?

Or, do you notice every flaw and exaggerate it? Do you see the weight gain after a rough few months?

Does it hone in on the grey hairs peeking through? Those may sound like little things, but it speaks to the tone that your inner voice takes.

The negative tone can derail your motivation and destroy your resilience. It’s the quickest ticket to sap your energy.

It can make pretty much every situation seem much worse than it truly is. The ability to take the tiniest problem and turn it into the worst case scenario is a gift that sadly, many of us possess. It’s the voice that keeps whispering to you that the worst case scenario is the most likely one.

Before you reached that conclusion, though, you stopped off at all of the other dark timelines. The imagination is a wonderful thing, but it can easily turn on you to create nasty situations. How can you overcome a challenge that your own mind has created?

More importantly, how can you respond adequately to a threat that your mind has blown out of proportion? Your response is likely to be a gross overreaction to the true situation. For example, you have been laid off. This would be a difficult situation for anyone to experience, especially if it comes from nowhere.

The natural response is anger, anxiety, sadness, and frustration. What is your inner voice telling you, though? The right response is to start looking for a new job. If your inner voice is telling you that you are hopeless and unemployable, this will be much more difficult.

Why?

It shows, especially in interviews. It started as a thought, but it spiraled beyond that and had an impact on everything. That’s the power of thought.

There is only one day to handle this and that is to change your attitude, which means you need to improve your self-talk. That means that you have to be aware of your self-talk, listen to your inner voice and when you hear it taking you down the wrong path, you need to correct it immediately. You are the victim of your own negative self-talk.

When negative thoughts start to creep in, it isn’t about laying blame or finding someone else who did this to you. It’s about correcting your inner voice and steering it to more positive thoughts.

You really are what you think. So, what do you think?