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Self-Talk First Aid Kit
Self-Talk First Aid Kit
Reprogramming or visualizing to change your self-talk are in-depth, systematic, disciplined procedures that take time.
Self-Talk First Aid Kit
The Self-Talk First Aid Kit includes six quick “catching yourself” tools that are temporary ways to adjust your self-talk in the moment.
Self-Talk First Aid Kit
The Self-Talk First Aid Kit is a supplement to reprogramming and visualizing.
Switching Channels
Switching Channels
Switch channels when you find yourself focusing too much on the negative.
Switching Channels
Imagine your mind as a TV set and choose to focus on a more self-supporting, self-motivating, constructive channel.
Switching Channels
Your mood focus is a personal choice.
Reframing
Reframing
Take the definition of a particular situation and reframe it with another meaning.
Reframing
Focus on promise, potential, the positive and possibilities that motivate you.
Reframing
Choose a meaning that is useful to you, that motivates you, that works for you instead of against you.
Camera Check
Camera Check
Use when you catch yourself slipping into trash-talk that is “all-or-nothing” thinking.
Camera Check
This kind of exaggerated, globalized, untrue language causes emotional upset and de-motivation.
Camera Check
Imagine your mind like a camera and ask yourself, “Would a video camera see and hear this?”
Jumping to Conclusions
Jumping to conclusions is a subset of this kind of unrealistic thinking.
Jumping to Conclusions
Instead of making a mountain out of a molehill, use the camera check image to just describe the mountain or the molehill.
Fire Your Critical Parent
Fire Your Critical Parent
Your critical parent is the voice in your mind that puts you down.
Fire Your Critical Parent
Avoid beating yourself up, threatening yourself and name-calling.
Fire Your Critical Parent
You do have an “inner child” inside of yourself that is a vulnerable, fragile part of yourself.
Fire Your Critical Parent
Avoid discouraging and de-motivating language.
Fire Your Critical Parent
Find that kinder and gentler parent inside of yourself.
Stay in the Present
Stay in the Present
Focus and be self-motivated.
Stay in the Present
Stay in the present when you find yourself stuck obsessing about the past or worrying about the future.
Stay in the Present
Catch yourself and switch channels to the present moment, because that’s where performance excels.
Stay in the Present
Peak performance occurs in the present, not in the future nor in the past.
Stay in the Present
Be aware of the present and believe that you can change it and then do it.
Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
2. Remembering your blessings
Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
2. Remembering your blessings
3. A sense of purpose
Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
2. Remembering your blessings
3. A sense of purpose
4. A sense of humor
Balanced Life
Remember the importance of friends, family and community.
Remember Your Blessings
Remembering your blessings like your health, a great job and your family can serve as an instant antidote to a negative focus.
Sense of Purpose
When you’re de-motivated, off track, off course or feeling down, you can snap back by remembering your sense of purpose—your vision, your life meaning.
Sense of Humor
Maintain a healthy sense of humor.
Sense of Humor
Laughter enhances the immune system and increases motivation, productivity and performance.
Where to Start
Where to Start
First, take yourself off automatic and eliminate trash-talking.
Where to Start
Secondly, believe you can change your self-talk.
Where to Start
Thirdly, choose specific strategies from the Self-Talk First Aid Kit.
Where to Start
Choose the strategies that work for you and that you’re comfortable with.
Where to Start
Find the strategies that fit you and that you’re at ease with.
Where to Start
Cut yourself some slack. If you blow it, be patient with yourself.
Where to Start
Changing your self-talk isn’t an overnight affair. It takes time.
Self-Talk First Aid Kit