Do you feel like you are always talking yourself out of success? As soon as you start to set goals for yourself, do you suddenly have nagging thoughts about how you aren’t up to the task or how you simply aren’t qualified to carry it through?
If you have ever experienced either situation, you need to change the way you respond to your inner dialogue. Instead of obeying your negative commands, you can use positive self-talk to counter the negativity and overcome nearly all anxious thoughts.
Setting Goals and Sticking to Them with Positive Self-Talk
Are you initially filled with excitement when you first set goals for yourself? Are these thoughts then followed by self-doubt and self-defeating thoughts that stop you in your tracks before you even get started?
It can be difficult to make the most of your life when you are constantly talking yourself out of being a success. It can be frustrating and discouraging to have these thoughts constantly plaguing you. Many of us, in fact, don’t even realize we have them! All we know is that we don’t have the confidence to stick to our plans and reach our goals.
But there’s another way!
Positive self-talk is an effective way to set goals and ensure that you stick to them, even if you have never been able to do this before. The way this works is that you decide what goal is important to you, and then you plan the logistics of how you are going to attain this goal. When self-doubt starts kicking in, you will respond with affirmations that prove your success without surrendering to the negative pressure. Since you’re reading this article, it’s clear that you’re no quitter and you’re certainly not a failure, so start believing in yourself!
Re-Programming Your Mind
Affirmations are essentially positive statements that re-program your mind for the positive. The moment you have a self-defeating thought you’d be able to counter the negative with a motivating statement. An example of a positive affirmation is: “I am worthy of great success,” or “I see myself in the winner’s circle.” What this does is replace negativity with thoughts that will help you move toward your goals instead of further away from them.
Positive self-talk is easier to implement than you might think. You may not be aware of the severity of the negative dialogue currently within your mind. However, once you begin with positive self-talk, you will suddenly realize that you are self-sabotaging the goals you set for yourself from the minute that you make them. This process can open your eyes to exactly how much this inner conversation has been interfering with your life. You’ll feel hopeful that you can now set goals and surpass them.
Through positive self-talk you will be able easily set long and short-term goals for yourself. And when you use affirmations, you’ll have accessible tools to help you push yourself further than ever before. Learning to quiet negativity with positive thoughts is a great move toward setting and attaining future goals with ease.
Affirmations to boldly speak out loud daily:
I am passionate about my goals.
My passion drives me forward to live the life of my dreams. I know what I want in life and I set goals to get me there. I know that each goal I achieve brings me in union with what I desire. I feel truly invigorated with each success!
Meeting a goal, no matter how big or small, strengthens my confidence and self-esteem. I enjoy these feelings and strive to receive them as often as possible.
Setting and achieving goals is a never-ending circle of positivity that fuels my passion even more. My passion encourages me to persevere over obstacles and it is replenished and increased with every goal I complete.
My passion enables my success. I use tools to ignite and refuel my passion on a daily basis, even when I face challenges that try to smother it.
My tools include affirmations to transform negative thoughts into positive ones, meditation to relax and rejuvenate my energy, and notes and pictures to inspire and remind me of my goals.
Today, I choose to feel inspired by my passions and let the excitement propel me forward to achieve my goals, regardless of any challenges that may arise.
Self-Reflection Questions:
1. Am I passionate about my goals?
2. Where can I find additional inspiration?
3. What task can I achieve today to fuel my passion and get me back on track toward my goals?
To Your Success!
I'd like to achieve several life goals which I've set up earlier, but the only problem I face up with is fear before action:(
Thank you for the insights. We can accomplish a lot by changing the way we talk with ourselves. At first it may seem a little artificial or strange but, over time, we can change our thought patterns if we keep repeating the positive messages. It takes some practice but our new positive thoughts take the place of the old ones if we stick to it. I also like to repeat messages that are achievable rather than taking on too much at once.
Anna, you're not the only one. Self confidence is achieved in time. All you need is practice
If you're going to do something new, just imagine how could it be in put yourself in that position, think about how should you act in different situations.
Few months back my friend told me that if I want to change my life and If I want to be a successful in my life I should change my thinking and start to belief in my self. He said that I should wake up every morning and stand in front of my mirror and start the positive self talk. In the beginning I was skeptical about this Idea but after a wile something changed I started to be more successful n my life and much more happy in it and now I fell like everything is perfect in my life. I want to encourage everyone to start to positive thinking and in the same time changing their life in a good way.
Good post.
Self-talk has more power than many of us imagine. Just think about the hundreds, if not thousands of thoughts and things we tell ourselves each day. If a significant portion of this thought and self-talk is negative, can you imagine just how much of this would manifest itself in our daily lives?
Alex Work
YourGoalSetting.cmo
Negative thoughts just seem to keep rolling, and everything gets worse! I am working on staying positive.Nice article!1
That's REALLY hard to do. Especially when your inner critic always wants to take over!
the mind is so powerful that it can make everything come true, but the negative thoughts of most people make them being derailed from their goals as well as the influence of negative thoughts of other people projecting to somebody. this is a great post. it is truly inspiring.
That's REALLY hard to do. Especially when your inner critic always wants to take over!
Self-talk has more power than many of us imagine. Just think about the hundreds, if not thousands of thoughts and things we tell ourselves each day.