Monitor Your Self-Talk

Gilda Given
3 min readJun 5, 2019

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Allowing someone else defines your worth, it’s not worthy for you. Letting another person define what you are capable of doing or not it’s not worthy either — doing that you are allowing unknown people to create your self-limiting beliefs unconsciously.

We are living in a world where things are not limited but what makes us suffer it’s the level of our own self-limiting beliefs we are holding in our mind. As one among the African Proverbs says,

“If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do no harm”

Jack Canfield is one among of his profound book “The Success Principles” also pointed out that “ in a day a normal human being speaks to themselves about 50,000 times. Out of that 50,000 times, 80% of that talk is negative only 20% is positive. This happens mostly to people who still don’t understand the power of self-talk. It’s mind-blowing, and badly enough sometimes it happens unconsciously, as our mind still operating in autopilot mode.

This is the proof that, if we have the ability to understand who we are, and believe in ourselves on the things that we are doing, nothing will ever destruct us in the process because the only thing that holds us back or things that get us stuck in life, is our own self-limiting beliefs from our own mind — being developed while monitoring our self-talk through thinking (where thoughts are created).

Self-Talk is how you speak to yourself (thoughts or thinking) especially when you are doing something or someone tells you to do something. You have to talk to yourself as a winner, someone who is capable, and someone who believes that it’s possible to do something.

Too many people allowing the enemy within to define their self-worth, and going out looking for the solution. What will be best for you is to cross-check all self-limiting beliefs that you have and start working on them. The beliefs of “I am not good enough, I can’t do this, I am too ugly, I am too average, I am not beautiful, I don’t have enough money, I can’t have that, I don’t deserve this, I don’t have enough education, I don’t have enough credit, and so many more”

The best thing you can ever do right now is to do yourself a favor and zip that up. Don’t criticize yourself either judge you — instead believe in who you are and believe in the things that you are doing while knowing that you have to work on yourself continuously.

Work on yourself by reading or listening things that will improve your beliefs like positive affirmations, because we are building those beliefs when we hear something mostly and live on them as our own life support principles in our daily life. The more we talk or listen, again and again, we create the lifestyle around that and will affect people around us and even our kids in the future.

At the end of the day, you may learn everything in this world but if you don’t believe in yourself nothing will ever work. Monitor your self-talk in a way that will make you believe in yourself.

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Gilda Given
Gilda Given

Written by Gilda Given

Author | On a mission to help you live that which is true to yourself

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