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Push Past Negative Self-Talk: Give Yourself the Proper Fuel to Attack the World, with David Goggins, Former NAVY Seal
Quiet your mind
Self-talk has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV. It’s what we see on Instagram. It’s what we see on Facebook. And we’re telling ourselves stuff that doesn’t really penetrate to our core, to the inside of our soul. So our self-talk is, what am I going to wear today? how am I going to look today? I need to act this way because this way is cool. And all day long we are feeding ourselves the wrong self-talk. It’s negative self-talk. Everything out there is you’re trying to keep up with somebody. You’re not trying to find your own self.
So you have to clear away all the crap. And how you clear away the crap to even get to your self-talk is you have to get all of the noise of all the crap of the world out of your head. Quiet your mind down. Get all the static out before you can even have a real conversation with yourself.
You have to create a positive dialogue. My self-talk became something that actually made me better. So all day long I’m putting the positive self-talk in my subconscious. I’m making sure that I’m walking around all day long giving myself the proper fuel to attack the world.
Win the war in the morning
The first thing in the morning what I do is I clean my room, I clean my house, I go for a run, I work out. I want to win the war in the morning. Because the second I leave my house, the second you look at your phone, the second you turn your TV on, you’re in a battle. All this negativity is coming at you.
Win the war in the morning so you have the strength to face what you’re going to face in the world. The world is going to come at you with lefts and rights. You have to have the right kind of mentality. And that starts by not hitting the snooze button. It starts by waking up. No, you don’t want to do it, but that gives you the strength because you did it.
If you do something you don’t want to do every morning you’re already giving yourself the proper self-talk. You’re already giving yourself the proper dialogue to attack the people that don’t like you, to attack your insecurities, to attack what the world is going to give you. So self-talk comes from belief in yourself. If you give yourself self-talk, positive self-talk, but you don’t believe it, it’s not going to come true. You have to put the work behind what you’re saying and believe what you’re saying to yourself for that self-talk to become a reality in your subconscious. So now what anybody says to you, no matter what you hear, you know the truth and you’re living through the truth. No one can penetrate that. No one.