Great Leaders Talk To Themselves

The most important person you’ll ever communicate with is yourself. What you say to yourself will determine the confidence you exude. The way you talk directs your path. How you speak will determine how you lead. You can’t speak failure over your life and expect to live successfully. If you constantly tell yourself that you are going to fail, chances are, you will. Keep making discouraging remarks about yourself and sure enough, you will own them.

This isn’t just positive mumbo-jumbo hype; this is how we are created. The brain is made up of billions of pathways where information travels through at all moments. These pathways are constantly under construction in a term referred to as Neuroplasticity. Basically, your brain is ever-adapting and reinventing it-self based on the information it is receiving. As new pathways are used, old ones begin breaking down.

This can be good news or terrible news, depending on what information your brain is currently processing. Environment, experiences, emotions, thoughts, and words have a tremendous impact on our ability to optimally function. What you consistently put into your brain is what begins to form in habitual pathways of activity. This is why we can learn new skills as we continuously practice them. Our old pathway of confusion and chaos begin to break down as we chart a new course of developing the skill. The nature of what you think about and what you say to yourself will literally rewire your brain.

What you consistently put into your brain is what begins to form in habitual pathways of activity.

Thus, your thoughts and words will become your new actions and habits over time. What you are communicating to yourself will wire your brain to produce an easy pathway to that result. If you constantly say and believe you aren’t a creative person, you will actually create that behavior. Your brain will have a hard time being creative because it will flow to the unimaginative pathway you have constructed. If you consistently say you don’t have enough resources to get something done, your brain will have a very difficult time trying to find the resources to get something done.

This is why we hit mental roadblocks when we are doing something we’ve never done; our brain is trying very hard to construct new pathways. If we give up and surrender to the pressure of negativity, we will stop constructing resourceful pathways and start constructing impossibility pathways.

You must reject the statement that you are somehow limited. The only limit you have is the belief that you have one. If you are destructive in the way you talk about yourself, you will be conditioned to live in a cage of uncertainty. Nothing good comes from negativity. Why waste our precious time talking about the negatives when we could talk about the positives? When you speak life and affirm your beliefs, you have laid the groundwork for success. Speak like the person you desire to become, not the person you currently are. What you talk about is what you will get.

Your self-talk shapes your self-worth. We all deal with the gremlin inside of us that is negative, grouchy, and fearful. Do not get comfortable with this pessimistic gremlin or it will take control of you. Build yourself up by speaking encouraging, positive, life-giving words over your future. You already talk to yourself, so make it a productive conversation.