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Your mind believes what it hears when you talk to yourself.

Thoughts are opinions, not facts.

Changing your inner dialogue can change how you think and how you feel.

When you put yourself down, your mind believes what you say—that you are inadequate, flawed, incompetent, destined to fail, and so on. Your mind doesn’t take a moment to reflect, sift through the facts at hand, evaluate premises, and examine evidence to determine whether self-talk is true or not. It believes what it hears, and what it hears is what you say to yourself under your breath. What you say to yourself has sticking power, affecting your deepest feelings about yourself and sapping motivation to move on with your life.

Words have power, so isn’t it time to use the power of your inner speech to change how you feel about yourself?

Change Can Happen, But Only if You Make It Happen

Many people wait for life to come to them rather than making life happen. They may defer making changes because the status quo seems safer and more familiar, no matter how ungratifying it may be. Or they may believe that they need to deeply probe the recesses of their psyche before they can make meaningful changes in their lives. The insight fallacy—the belief that deep insight into the psyche is needed for change—keeps people from making changes in the "here and now" that can have profound effects on the lives they live. They may spend years waiting for that elusive magic moment when insight shines its heavenly spotlight on them, empowering them to make the changes they could have made much earlier. But change can only occur "in the now," not in the indefinite future.

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

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