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Ernest Chu:
The stories that we tell about ourselves whereas if somebody else told them about us, we would be very incensed. But we in fact tell those stories about ourselves - that we're not good enough, that we have to struggle, that life is hard.

Ernest Chu, former investment banker and now coach and author of the book Soul Currency, says so often we are our own worst critic.

There's a tendency to remember everything that you've done wrong and you won't think of all the hundreds of thousands of times that you've done things right. And those are the things that in effect confirm that really you are enough.

Ernest says, try focusing on the things you do well, not the things you do wrong and actually write them down - also…

At the beginning of the day and at the end of the day be thankful for what you already have. And you know it sends the universe a really interesting message; it doesn't say, "Send me more worry". It says, "Send me more things to be grateful about."

It may sound a little bit mystical and magical but Ernest says once you start to focus your mind this way, it's amazing what can happen.

I used to say, "Well, I need the phone to ring because I need more clients." So I now say, "I'm affirming that the phone is going to ring". I put that into my prayers and I put that into everything that I'm doing and "You know what happens?", the next day, the next day after that and the next day after that I would start getting calls.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.