You Might Be A Redneck If.............(251 - 275 of 299)

First 25

251	Your child's first words are "Attention K-Mart shoppers!".
252	Your wife's best pair of shoes are steel-toed Red Wings.
253	You have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.
254	You bring your dog to work with you.
255	You replace a flat tire on your truck with a tire from your house.
256	You've ever put a six-pack in a casket right before they closed it
257	Your family's No. 1 enemy is revenuers.
258	Your belt buckle doubles as a serving platter.
259	You use lava soap more than three times a day.
260	You wear cowboy boots with Bermuda shorts.
261	You have a hook in your shower to hang your hat on.
262	You buy your wife tube socks at the flea market.
263	You consider orange peels left on the coffee table as potpourri.
264	You grow flowers in an old commode in your front yard.
265	You can't take a bath because beer is iced down in your tub.
266	Your kitchen doubles as a bait store.
267	You've ever picked up a woman in a convenience store.
268	You throw a beer can out the truck window and your wife shoots it.
269	You've ever fed your date French fries in a Denny's.
270	Going to the Laundromat means cleaning out the back of the truck.
271	Your family reunion features a chewing tobacco spit-off.
272	Your front porch collapses and more than six dogs are killed.
273	You think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d'ouerve.
274	You stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by.
275	You've ever barbecued Spam on the grill.
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth Last 25

Achieving Success By Expecting Success by Zig Zigler

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. When you recognize and develop the winning qualities that you were born with, the winner you were born to be emerges. When you plan and prepare to make a sale, for example, you can legitimately expect to make a sale. Although not all your expectations are going to come to pass, you give yourself an infinitely better chance of succeeding by taking the proper steps.

Regardless of your goal--losing weight, making more sales, furthering your
education, earning a promotion, saving money for a new home or an exotic vacation--you can expect to achieve your goal if you plan and prepare for it.

Also understand that the path from where you are to where you want to be is not always smooth and straight. The reason for the twists and bumps is simple, and it has nothing to do with you. It has more to do with the fact that not everyone is as interested in your success as you are. Some people may accidentally hinder your efforts; others who are in competition with you and have little or no integrity may try to sabotage your efforts.

Keep in mind, though, that when you hit those roadblocks your character,
commitment, and attitude are the determining factors in your success... Carefully review your plan of action, seek wise counsel, and be particularly careful to feed your mind good information. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties.

Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #10)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

EMPOWERMENT TRIAD:

• PASSION

• PLEASURE

• REPETITION
  

"Pleasure", the second leg of the "Empowerment Triad," is the fuel that feeds the engine of passion. If the process was not pleasurable, the chances of obtaining the desired results would be significantly diminished.

Though sages may pour out their Wisdom's treasure,

There is no stronger moralist than Pleasure.

-Lord Byron

This fuel that feeds the passion is a powerful assortment of positive messages contained in rhyming poems; fed by passionate self-talk.

You may ask, "Why rhyming poems?"

It was a motivational, rhyming, poem from an anonymous author that I read years ago which actually gave birth to the idea for this process. The poem is called "It's All In The State Of Mind." The message was very powerful and the poem was fun to read and easy to remember so the rhymes stayed with me (i.e. the positive, uplifting, success oriented, self-affirming messages within these rhymes stayed with me.) I found myself repeating them aloud with increasing passion. They got into my soul and began to change the way I thought about things, the way I felt about myself and the way I viewed the world. I understood its message immediately. However, the more I read it aloud and with passion, the more it stirred an emotional cord deep within me. I knew from the very first time that I read this poem, that there was something wrong with how I viewed life and that I had the power to change that view.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

-T.S. Elliot

Poetry...is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal--which the reader recognizes as his own.

-Salvatore Quasimodo

You have the power to change your view of life, by changing your attitudes.

He is most powerful who has power over himself.

-Philip Massinger

For most people, the reading of rhyming poetry is pleasurable, especially when it is read with passion. It is easy to be passionate about something that is pleasurable. The same is true in reverse; when you do something with passion, the experience is more pleasurable and makes a deeper, lasting impression. Reading these poems aloud with passion will have a dramatic effect on your attitudes.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

-John Keats

Rhyming Poetry has a way of transmitting a message better than most other ways of expression. It seems to stay with you longer and penetrates deeper. It is said that "poetry is for the soul." As was indicated earlier, that's how the idea for this program was born. A poem expressing a truth I had not realized before, worked its way inside of me and started a process of change. The way this poem's positive message made me feel brought me to the realization that I previously had the wrong mind-set to achieve success. No matter how hard I tried success was very illusive and seemed just out of my reach.

Poetry is the first style of literature we experience as children - Pattern books, then rhymes! (Dr. Suess is still wildly successful!) Maybe that is why poetry is comfortable and comforting to read.

The messages contained within the rhymes that follow in the process can counteract and replace the negative messages that you may have been programmed with, if the process is repeated regularly.

You will need to stay with the program for the changes to become permanent. The more these rhymes are repeated the better the probability of your achieving and maintaining your desired success. Think of current knowledge that you have and are able to apply at will. (The multiplication table would be an example of this.) Now think back to when you first learned it. It would be safe to say that you had to repeat it to yourself many times before it became knowledge. You would have to continuously review it to maintain it as knowledge.

By Mel Kaye

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Failing To Succeed by Zig Zigler

Failure Is A Step To Success

"You've got to learn to lose in order to win" sounds like strange advice, but the man who says it has earned over three hundred million dollars. Even in today's economy, that's a considerable sum of money. Here's the story.

In 1958, brothers Frank and Dan Carney started a pizza parlor across from their family's grocery store. Their goal was to pay for their college educations. Nineteen years later, Frank Carney sold the 3,100-outlet chain called "Pizza Hut" for three hundred million dollars.

Carney's advice to those starting out in business sounds strange, but he explains the concept this way: "I've been involved in about fifty different business ventures and about fifteen of them were successful. That means I have about a thirty percent success average."

The point Frank makes is this: You need to be "at bat" if you ever expect to get a hit, and it's even more important to step back up to the plate after you strike out.

Carney says Pizza Hut was successful because he learned from his mistakes. For example, when an Oklahoma City expansion effort failed, he realized the importance of location and decor. He learned from his mistake so that the future would be brighter. When sales declined in New York, he came up with the innovative idea of introducing thick crust pizza with substantial success. When regional pizza houses began to take part of the market share, Frank responded by introducing "Chicago-style pizza," and again success came his way. Factually, Carney failed many times, but in each case he made those failures work for him.

Failure is an experience common to all of us. Question: Will you let those failures work for you or against you? If you do as Frank Carney did, you will use your failures as learning experiences and I really will SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

Create Yourself

Motivational Quotes (3)

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
-Henry Ford

To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
-Sir William Osler, physician

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
-Omar Bradley

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like.
But we cannot wait until tomorrow.
Tomorrow is now.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
-John Ciardi

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.
-Kim Woo-Choong

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
-Og Mandino

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity.
I was forced to come up the hard way.
-J.C. Penney

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Edison

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
-Napoleon Hill

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
-Montaigne

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
-John D. Rockefeller

The biggest mistake people make in life
is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
-Malcomb Forbes

Fortune sides with s/he who dares.
-Virgil

Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble.
-Frank Tyge

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-Henry Ford

Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

You must have long term goals
to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
-Charles C. Noble

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
-English Proverb

There is no failure except in no longer trying.
-Elbert Hubbard

To finish first, you must first finish.
-Rick Mears, Indy Car Driver

Build a dream and the dream will build you.
-Robert Schuller

Winners have simply formed the habit
of doing things losers don't like to do.
-Albert Gray

Inches make champions.
-Vince Lombardi

I could use a hundred people
who don't know there is such a word as impossible.
Henry Ford

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley, author

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dr. Dorothy Height

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard, American writer

Strong reasons make strong actions.
William Shakespeare

See Motivational Quote Index for more quotes.

You Might Be A Redneck If.............(226 - 250 of 299)

Redneck Taxi Service

First 25

226	Getting a package from your post office requires a full tank of gas in the truck.
227	"Buck Naked Line Dancing" isn't a videotape, it's "Ladies Night" at the local bar.
228	Your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.
229	You dated your daddy's current wife in high school.
230	You're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing "I Will Always Love You".
231	You've ever parked a Camero in a tree.
232	Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.
233	Your dad is also your favorite uncle.
234	The most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection (your insurance man is one too if he pays you for it).
235	You actually made a pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight with Alan Jackson.
236	You have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
237	You've ever hit a deer with your car..on purpose! "
238	You can tell your age by the number of rings in the bathtub.
239	Your mom gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events.
240	The blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
241	Your classes at school were cancelled because the path to the restroom was flooded.
242	On your job application under "SEX" you put "As often as possible".
243	During your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.
244	You're a lite beer drinker, because you start drinking when it gets light.
245	On your first date you had to ask your Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.
246	Your parakeet knows the phrase "Open up, Police!".
247	You saved lots of money on your honeymoon by going deer hunting.
248	In tough situations you ask yourself, "What would Curly do?".
249	Taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.
250	You think the last words to the Star Spangled Banner are "Gentlemen, start your engines." or "Play Ball..."
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth Next 25

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #9)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

"Passion", the first leg of the "Empowerment Triad," is an integral part of the whole process. It is the engine that drives the positive messages into your subconscious. Do not underestimate the power of passion in changing your attitudes. Without passion in the process, the emotions would not be touched and the desired results would be far more difficult to attain.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

-W. Eugene Smith

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

-Hegel, 1832

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is defined as:

1. A powerful, deep, overwhelming emotion
2. Boundless enthusiasm
3. Zeal
4. Ardor

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion is the force behind the creation and the reinforcement of a positive mind-set (positive attitudes ruling your life). As the process progresses - the use of passion in driving the positive messages into your very being...will speed up the process dramatically, and could even be the difference between success and failure.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

-Henri-frédéric Amiel

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

-Struthers Burt

Passion will ignite the emotions, and awaken a very powerful force that lies within you.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

-Benjamin Disraeli

Be careful, passion can also have its negative, dark side. Remember, passion is a powerful emotion. There are negative passions such as envy, jealousy, rage, wrath, revenge, and many more. All the messages that you get and create through this process need to be positive, self-affirming and empowering.

Living well is the best revenge.

-George Herbert

The passion that you will summon up should be a combination of your own burning desire for success, the knowledge that a change in attitude will bring you so much closer to it, and the pleasure derived from reading rhyming poetry. Following is the "Pleasure" leg of the "Empowerment Triad."

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

By Mel Kaye

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Handling Failure by Zig Zigler

By Zig Ziglar

There are many great articles about attitude and success. I will be posting some of them verbatim rather than trying to rewrite them into my own words. In some cases, reinventing the wheel is not really necessary.

Cal Ripken is known for breaking Ty Cobb's "unbreakable" record of playing in 2,130 consecutive professional baseball games, and for signing a five-year contract for more than $30 million in the 1990s. However, during one particular year of that contract, Cal got only about one hit for every four times at bat. Think about it. If you had failed three times out of four in your job, how would you feel about it? What would your self-image or picture of yourself be?

Question: What do you think Cal Ripken's picture of himself is when he steps up to the plate? Do you really think that he's thinking: "Boy, what a waste of time! Chances are only one out of four I'm going to get a hit! I don't know why I bother with this anyhow. Sure, they pay me a lot of money, but this is embarrassing and terribly discouraging to get only one hit for every four trips to the plate. There has to be another way to make a living! I'm just a loser.

I'm no good, and I don't know why I put myself through this torture so everybody else can see what I already know." Do you think that's his self-talk? If not, then what is his self-talk? I believe as he steps to the plate with considerable eagerness to face the pitcher, Cal is thinking to himself, "Okay, you got me the last time, but I've got your number this time. I've been thinking it through, watching you, and I happen to know I'm one of the best athletes in the world.

I've hit that ball under every circumstance known to man. I've gotten hits off tall pitchers and short pitchers, winning pitchers and losing pitchers. I've hit in close games and runaway games, and this time . . . I'm coming after you. This is my turn!"

Cal Ripken sees himself as a winner, and he is elated to have a chance to step back up to the plate. Message: Regardless of what happened to you the last time you stepped up to the plate, this time it's a brand new day, and at this very moment you are preparing to make it a winning one. That is motivation.

You Might Be A Redneck If..............(201 - 225 of 299)

Redneck Window

First 25

This may be the funniest group yet.....

201	You have an Elvis Jell-o mold.
202	You own more cowboy boots than sneakers.
203	You've been to a funeral and there were more pick-ups than cars.
204	You have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace.
205	You just bought an 8-track player to put in your car.
206	There are four or more cars up on blocks in the front yard.
207	The theme song at your high school prom was `Friends in Low Places'
208	It's Easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it.
209	You think that John Deere Green, Ford Blue, and Primer Gray are the three of the primary colors.
210	You've ever climbed a water tower with a bucket of paint to defend your sister's honor.
211	Your idea of talking during sex is "Ain't no cars coming, baby!"
212	Your vehicle has a two-tone paint job--primer red and primer gray.
213	The tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.
214	Yer mom calls ya over t'help, cause she has a flat tire...on her house
215	The ASPCA raids yer kitchen
216	Ya have to check in the bottom yer shoe for change so ya can get grandma a new plug of tobacco
217	Foreplay consists of slipping off her saddle
218	Ya can't get married to yer sweetheart cause there is a law against it.
219	Ya celebrate groundhog day (cause ya believe in it!!)
220	You've been on TV more than 5 times describing the sound of a tornado.
221	You fish in your above-ground pool, especially if you catch something!
222	When a sign that says "Say No To Crack!" reminds you to pull up your jeans.
223	Helping your cousin, Billy-Bob, move into his new place consists of the wheels off his doublewide
224	Your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.
225	You know you're a redneck if you wake up with both a black eye and a hickey.
	Thank you Jeff Foxworthy Next 25

U.S. Military Prepares for Democrat Cutbacks

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #8)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

As previously stated, self-talk, also works on negative messages, such as the examples that I previously described. Therefore, you must make a commitment not to repeat any negative messages, negative judgments, or negative attitudes that you have about yourself as you begin the program. After a very short time you will readily be able to identify the negative messages. After all, the negative attitudes and feelings that you have about yourself are not true and will be, shortly, eradicated from your conscious and, more importantly, from your subconscious mind.

This process uses passion with pleasure in a repetitive format to touch deep emotional chords. This combination forms, what I call the "Empowerment Triad." This is a critical combination that will work to change your attitudes from negative to positive, from those of a loser to those of a winner; it will change the way you feel about yourself; it will change the way you view your world; it will enable you to achieve the success you desire and deserve. You will be able to soar like a bird.

Wings...

Be like the bird

That, pausing in her flight

A while on boughs too slight,

Feels them give way

Beneath her and yet sings

Knowing that she hath wings.

-Victor Hugo

EMPOWERMENT TRIAD:

· PASSION

· PLEASURE

· REPETITION

Remember desired success can be more than financial. It can be personal growth (health, scholastic, etc.) You can have multiple desires and work on them simultaneously. Once you begin to satisfy a desire, and you know that you won't quit until that desire is realized, then you are experiencing success.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

-Samuel Johnson

The "Empowerment Triad" is the heart of the process. Positive messages contained in the rhyming poetry (I will discuss the reason for rhyming poetry a little later.) Rhyming poetry is the soul of the process. With the heart and soul feeding the mind, this is a sure way to success.

EMPOWERMENT TRIAD:

· PASSION

· PLEASURE

· REPETITION

By Mel Kaye
Copyright © MondayMorningPower, All rights Reserved

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Now That's a Dog

I was wrestling with posting this or not. Is it relevant to my focus? I decided it was unusual in a positive way and so can have relevance to those of us who may not "fit the mold" but yet have a definite place in society and should embrace their difference rather than trying to run away from it.

Hercules was recently awarded the honorable distinction of Worlds Biggest Dog by Guinness World Records. Hercules is an English Mastiff And has a 38 inch neck and weighs 282 pounds. With "paws the size of softballs" (reports the Boston Herald), the Three-year-old monster is far larger and heavier than his breed's Standard 200lb. Limit. Hercules owner Mr. Flynn says that Hercules Weight is natural and not induced by a bizarre diet: "I fed him normal food and he just grew".... And grew. And grew. And grew.

You Might Be A Redneck If..............(176-200 of 299)

First 25

176	After making love you ask your date to roll down the window.
177	The biggest fashion risk you take is which plaid you'll wear to the 4-H Fair.
178	You have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.
179	Someone in your family says "Cum'n heer an' lookit this afore I flush it."
180	Your wife weighs more then your refrigerator
181	If going to the bathroom in the middle of the night involves putting on shoes (if you have them) a jacket and grabbing a flashlight.
182	When you see a sign that says "Say No To Crack," it reminds you to pull your jeans up.
183	You go Christmas shopping for your mom, sister, and girlfriend, and you only need to buy one gift
184	You are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.
185	You consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.
186	You participate in the "who can spit tobacco the farthest contest".
187	You roll you hair with soup cans and wash it once a year.
188	You consider a three piece suit to be: a pair of overalls, a plaid flannel shirt and thermal underwear.
189	There is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck.
190	You can change the oil in your truck without ducking your head.
191	You have 5 cars that are immobile and house that is!
192	You gene pool doesn't have a "deep end"
193	"Honey? Are the lights out? Is the door locked? Is the parking brake set?" is what you hear right before you and your wife/girl friend make love
194	You have to go down to the creek to take a bath.
195	You come home from the garbage dump with more than you went with.
196	Your `huntin dawg' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.
197	You'd rather catch bass than get some (if you can't guess...)
198	You have a Hefty bag for a Car/Truck convertible top.
199	Your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.
200	You think that safe sex is a padded headboard on the waterbed.
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth Next 25

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #7)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

This process (to be described later) has been designed to remove the dark glasses, to remove the negative attitudes and replace them with clear glasses; positive attitudes. This in its simplest and most basic form, is the purpose of this program.

Fortunately false truths can be eradicated by repeating to yourself positive, affirmative, messages to replace the negative, debilitating messages you may have been programmed with. You will be able to remove the "prior consent" that you unwittingly gave to others that made you feel negative about yourself. This is one of the goals.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you truly feel that these negative attitudes you have about yourself are true, and you feel you can back them up...not only with real life examples of how you have failed, but also listing others who hold low opinions of you...consider this:

The reason that you may have concrete examples of why you are a failure is that, due to early negative programming, again, probably as a child, you believe that you are a failure and unconsciously, you want to prove yourself right. Therefore, you, at a subconscious level, will do everything within your power not to succeed. You may, subconsciously, continuously sabotage yourself. You set yourself up for "Catastrophic Expectations:" You expect the worse to happen...so therefore, it will happen.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

-Anthony Trollope

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

-Henry Ford

Now, take a look at the reverse. What do you think would result if you were to, without doubt, believe that you will succeed? Yes, you probably would indeed succeed. If negative beliefs, negative thinking and negative attitudes lead to failure, then it also follows that positive thinking, positive beliefs and positive attitudes will lead to success.

I will never quit, I know that I will succeed, therefore success is inevitable.

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

-William Shakespeare

How, then, do you begin to achieve these attitudes? - Positive self-talk (also known as auto-suggestion) begins the process. Self-talk is the process of speaking to yourself. Yes, talking to yourself. In fact, as you follow the process you will be talking to yourself, out-loud, and enjoying it. Self-talk must be of a positive nature, consisting of self-affirming and self-motivating, messages...not the negative messages that may have been shaping your life up to now.

Most all of us have been involved with self-talk at some point in our lives. For many people it is an on-going process. You have probably experienced negative self-talk, without even realizing it. When ever you hear that little voice in your head saying "I can't," or "That's impossible," or "That's too hard," you are experiencing negative self-talk. You are reaffirming what you believe is an accurate assessment of your capabilities with confirming self-talk. However, this assessment has no basis in fact and will not apply to the person you will become. This assessment was based on prior programmed negative messages, as was referred to earlier. To repeat, these are negative messages that were previously told to you, probably at a time in your life when you were susceptible and/or trusting. Once these messages have been repeated enough times, and you believe them to be true, you invoke self-talk as a way of reinforcing them. This process may take place consciously or subconsciously. A partial list of these messages were previously detailed.

Self-talk is a very powerful tool and can make dramatic changes in your life. The objective is to use it in a targeted, guided and positive way.

Positive self-talk is at the heart of the process. You will be giving yourself pep-talks, motivating yourself, building up your spirits, changing your negative attitudes into positive ones, and reinforcing any existing positive attitudes that you may have. This will be accomplished in a rather unique, fun and powerful way.

By Mel Kaye

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