” I am terrible at language”,I have never been a good speaker”,”It is impossible for me to lose weight”. These kind of statements to ourselves and others strongly influence our behavior. Self talk is the foundation of behavior and if you listen to yourself and others you will find patterns that strongly influence behavior. If you constantly feed yourself negative statements about what you can and cannot do your behavior will follow the details received by your brain. Listen to yourself and others and you will pick up patterns of speech that will effect behavior.
Work task:: Identify the negative statements that you make to yourself on a regular basis,
.For example what are the ones that you openly tell yourself and others? “I could never learn another language,” I would love to lose weight but I have given up” “I would love to change jobs but I am too old to change now” “Please spend fifteen minutes writing down the most common negative statements that are ones you often repeat to yourself and others.