Self Talk for Interior Redesigners

All the while you are reading this post, you are talking to yourself. Not out loud, but your inner mind is always active and speaking to you. It's called "self talk".

Self talk can be destructive or constructive.

It can validate a fine performance or it can cause you to place blame, either on yourself, someone else or something.

Do you find yourself minimizing an achievement with statements like, "Oh, it wasn't that good" or "Well, I was really lucky . . . "? You might think you're just being humble, but perhaps that is negative self talk at work robbing you of the ability to feel a real sense of achievement.

Or perhaps when things aren't going well, do you find yourself saying, "Well, it's not me! It's them!"?

Both of these situations are destructive self talk at work. It is a pattern of making excuses, and if you don't accept responsibility for your accomplishments AND your failures, you can't change them or overcome them or accept your true value.

You've got to recognize that your self talk needs an adjustment. When you hear yourself making these kinds of excuses, note them and discard them. Each time you do, you will begin changing how you think and how you speak to yourself. Very quickly you will not only see yourself achieving at new and greater heights, but the people around you will begin to react more positively toward you too.