One of the challenges we are all faced with throughout our lives is controlling that little voice inside our head. For some reason, it’s really good at telling you what you don’t want to hear, and tells you what you want to hear sparingly. It’s not uncommon to here a few phrases like the following from that little voice:

• That was stupid

• It’ll probably never happen

• You idiot

• Wow, there you go screwing up again

• What is wrong with you?

Now, the good news is that you can actually put a stop to this and you can get that voice saying things like the below the majority of the time:

• Wow, that was awesome

• You’re a rockstar

• Damn, I did that? I am amazing

• I’m incredible

• I’m funny, smart, charming, etc, etc

I’m not sure how or why I remembered this question, but I found it to be a very useful technique and getting the negative inner voice to give it a rest. Would you let anybody else talk to you like that? Give some thought to that question. Would you ever let anybody else call you stupid, idiot or screw up on a daily basis? Would you stay friends with somebody who constantly criticized you? I certainly hope not. But what’s amazing is we actually are fine with talking to ourselves that way. It sounds ridiculous when you realize what you are doing.  Once we realize that we are not that voice and see are ourselves as separate from it, we can start to let it know that we’re done putting up with the way it treats us and tell it to take  a hike. So next time that voice starts up, ask yourself “Would you let anybody else talk to you like that?” and detach from the inner voice.