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September 27, 2004
Self Talk
Interview
with Dr. Pam Brill author of the book, The
Winner's Way
Mike Carruthers:
Do you talk to yourself? Of course you do, whether silently
or out loud we all talk to ourselves.
Dr. Pam
Brill:
Whenever I ask people how they talk to themselves,
if you talk to the person sitting next to you the same way you
talk to yourself you think that person would want to be your
friend?
Dr. Pam
Brill, author of the book The
Winner's Way…
Nobody
ever says yes, people always say no way they'd get up out of
the chair and move. So we tend to beat ourselves up and whether
that's nature or nurture you know, genetic or learned it doesn't
really matter what matters is learning to tune into it and turn
it around.
If you're
going to be successful at anything Pam says you have to have
confidence.
And you're
not feeling confident when you're telling yourself. I can't,
I have to, I should've, you know, should've, could've, would've.
You're feeling confident when you're saying I can do this.
Just as
you can talk yourself out of something you can talk yourself
into something. It's all how you talk to yourself.
And so,
in the morning, if part of your morning routine is to workout,
instead of saying, " Oh it's raining, I don't really want
to go to the gym, I have to go to the gym to workout."
You can turn that around and say instead I'm going to get up
because I want to build my heart, I want to build my bones and
I want to keep my brain cells firing so that I can stay in this
game, this life for the long run.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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