In a previous post, I spoke about the 1st two rules of staying positive. The way we speak and talk to ourselves.

Today we look at the next two rules of staying positive

Rule 3 - Making a conscious effort to improve your self-talk. When someone compliments you on something good, learn to follow up with something positive; saying it out loud will help you to strengthen your beliefs in it.

For EG: if someone tells you that your workout today at the gym went great, reply with something like "Thanks! I've been working really hard to improve and I think it's working!" instead of "I think I was just lucky today"

Some of you might argue that it's just playing with words and that would seem a bit like over-inflating ourselves

Think about it:

1. You put in the efforts didn't you?

2. Don't you deserve to feel good about yourself ?

Yes! We all deserve and need to!

WHY?

For the simple fact that no one else will do nor say the same good things to you, as well or as willing as yourself!

Old habits are hard to break, so if you've been full of negative self talk for years like most people, a few kind words to yourself aren't going to fix the problem overnight.

We will have to learn how to make a conscious and strong effort to have some daily "self-conversation" to start taking over the negative.

Rule 4 - use visualization to literally see yourself removing bad programming self talk from your brain just like you delete unwanted software from your PC and replace them with positive self talk.

Tell yourself each new day:

"I'm ready for any new challenges today!"

"I'm confident of my ability to survive the tasks today!"

"I'm ready to make the right decisions to the best of my efforts!"

And there you have the 4 rules of being positive.

Well.. talking to yourself might seem crazy at first, but Hey! if learning and understanding how your conscious and unconscious mind works allows you to gain that mental edge to perform at your peak, why not?!

Besides... we all speak to ourselves constantly, don't we?