One of the things that holds back our personal development is our own self-talk. We can use power of mind techniques positively or negatively. We have something like 60,000 thoughts a day and many of these are reinforcing the negative aspects of our life. We tend to say things like "I have never been any good at that" or "I cannot do math" or "I am frightened I might make a fool of myself".
Many of these thoughts are based on bad experiences or on negative feedback from others, and we tend to accept them as fact. If we can change our self-talk – our view of ourselves – we have a chance to change. Here are some actions you can take now to help you to change and to shape life to what you want it to be.
Look For Inspiration
What inspires you? Are you inspired by other people's quotes and sayings? Look for positive sayings that will inspire you and keep exposing yourself to them. If you can, saturate your mind with these positive quotes so they drown out the negative ones. Carry them with you, learn them off by heart and say them often enough so you will believe them.
Who inspires you? Is there someone you admire you would like to emulate? Maybe it is a parent, a brother or sister or friend or someone successful you admire. It may be you would like to change so they will admire you and be proud of you. It may be you simply want to change because you are tired of under achievement or of not getting a proper share of what life has to offer.
Look For The Things You Can Do
Start thinking in terms of the things you can do, the things you know you are good at. Concentrate on them and do them as well as you can, but do them one at a time. If you cannot find something you are good at then focus on the one thing you do best and learn as much as you can about it and get as good at it as you can. This will give you confidence in yourself.
Remember, you are not competing with anyone else. You do not have to be as good as or better than another person. You simply have to be as good as you can be at that one thing. When you have done that, take action on another area of you life you want to improve and become as good at that as you can. It is important to take action and to start.
Change Your Mindset
It is important to take action now to change your mindset. You will get into the habit of actually doing something about becoming the person you want to be. You will see yourself working towards that goal. As you do this you can visualize yourself achieving that goal or of taking that action you fear or of enjoying the benefits of having achieved it.
Start now by focusing on that one thing you are good at or that one thing you would like to be good at. The combination of positive self talk, visualization and positive action is a very powerful tool to help you to become the person you want to be. These are power of mind techniques that work and have been used by many people to get what they want. They will work for you.
You will find FREE software to help you start taking the steps to shape life and to get what you want when you visit http://powerofmind.personaldevelopment.mobi/
William Burnell has built and sold his own business and he has run successful sales teams. He knows what it takes to stay motivated and to stay focused on your objectives to get what you want.