Talk to Yourself

What do you think is more important?

1. More positive thinking

2. Less negative thinking

Study after study shows there is a clear-cut answer: less negative thinking.

The reason is that roughly 70% of your negative thinking is unrecognized. It’s so embedded in your behavior and automatic thoughts that you aren’t even aware of it.

You can go through life thinking pessimistically. But it’s no way to live.

This won’t happen by accident. It requires you to remember that “You must talk to yourself more than you listen to yourself.”

If you listen to yourself, it will demotivate you and create doubt. If you talk to yourself, you can fill that space that would default to negative self-talk, with someone more positive or neutral.

Today is your day to reduce negative thinking.

P.S. I have special guest hosts of the Optimistic Outlook Podcast! Check out my 12-year-old son John Ellis, who is developing his communication skills and confidence. If you reply to this email with how he did, I promise to pass it along (because there is no chance he is getting a phone anytime soon)