Be your own best friend!
How many times have you caught yourself saying things like - that was stupid of me, I am so silly, I am a bit rubbish at xyz. In my experience I hear this a lot..... clients, friends relatives all talking themselves down.
Now maybe its because we are 'British' and we don't 'big ourselves up' - afterall nobody likes a big head do they? I have often heard the confidence of the American's described as arrogance and not really acceptable behaviour - but I love the fact that they can stand up and say I am great at golf, I am really good at my job or I play the piano really well etc.
How much nicer would your day be if you could accept that you had done well, achieved what you set out to, or at least gave it a good go!
I believe the first step towards changing this is to become aware of it both in our minds and in our words, how often do we have a great idea and then talk ourselves out of it before we have even tried. Become aware of your thoughts , catch yourself telling yourself I can't to that because.... I am too old, young, fat, poor, not clever enough, not brave enough and change it to I can do that! Once you believe you can it's a much shorter step to I will do that and from there to I am doing it!!!
Watch your thoughts and change them, only this morning I dropped a spoon on the floor as I made my breakfast the words 'you stupid twit' were out of my mouth before I had a chance to stop them , I made myself say out loud I am a bright intelligent person who just dropped a spoon!! I am changing the way I see myself , and you can too!
Next time you catch yourself telling yourself you are stupid/fat/ugly etc etc ask yourself this question.... would I speak to my best friend like that? No ? Then why speak to yourself that way?
Be your own best friend!!!!
