Tag: Philip Dodson

Talk to yourself differently

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We all have this inner voice and it talks to us.

It isn’t another person in our head, it is a voice we control.

If you were asked to inspire someone else to do something great, how would you talk to them?

When was the last time the voice inside your head said ‘well done, you did a great job of that’ or ‘I’m really proud of you’ or ‘you are so good at that, wow!’ or anything similar?

Do you congratulate yourself every day for the great things you do?

Equally, we can choose to talk differently to ourselves about others and choose a generous position versus a judgemental one. After all, everyone is trying to do their best.

The voice in our head can talk differently, we just need to teach it to do so.

It’s just a habit and a choice.

Change isn’t easy

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Whatever it is in our lives that we are trying to change the journey is not an easy one.

It is going to require accepting things about ourselves, it is going to need commitment, it is going to be hard work.

There will be setbacks and times when you questions whether or not it is worth it. Perhaps you were OK anyway and didn’t need to change.

Others will try to derail you, you may even lose people along the way as you change as a person.

You might not make the change you wanted.

However, more often you will make it if you stick at it.

Changing something is a hugely liberating and meaningful thing to do. Doing nothing has no joy.

The reality is, to never try to change is longer term much harder and once you have put the hard work into making one change, other changes come much easier. It becomes a habit.

Better always to try something than to never try at all no matter how challenging.

After all always doing the same will always bring the same outcome.