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6 Thoughts I Got Rid of That Changed My Life
Slowly shifting mental frames
I’ve told this story before.
5 years ago, I was driving out of work one day, with the same thoughts streaming in my head. They had been on repeat for the last few weeks, months even.
On and on I would drone on about how my lack of ability, how life sucked, how I sucked. Everything was going wrong. I was 25 and not a raving success yet, what had I done wrong?
And then something weird happened.
Something that I didn’t know could happen until it happened, and then I was confused how it had never happened before.
I simply said to myself:
“You’re either going to change it or stop moaning about it.”
Before that, I didn’t quite realise (sounds stupid now) that I could change the voice in my head, that I was indeed the author and narrator of that voice and that I, yes me, could change that voice.
I was that voice.
Since I realized the power of the voice in your head.
No, I don’t stand in front of the mirror telling myself I’m a millionaire, nor have I written myself a $1 million cheque and stamped it to my wall.
