December 11, 2024: POSTIVE SELF-COACHING
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."
-Buddha.
Listen to this daily meditation on audio:
"You'd better check yourself before you wreck yourself."
That is an old saying from my youth. It was true then and I believe it's still true today. Each and every one of us plays an important role in how we live our lives, and how much prosperity and joy we attain as we talk our way through life. Mindfulness of the power of the spoken word is crucial to maintaining healthy self-esteem and positive expectations. We already know that putting others down, and using demeaning words are never a way to uplift anyone. Yet, when it comes to our our own self talks, we seem to forget these obvious truths. Our power to hurt others with unkind words is probably multiplied tenfold when we use those same words on ourselves. We must somehow awaken to the fact that our self talks are the keys to unlocking our full potential, or the stumbling blocks to a life of low achievement. Just as we must choose to be an uplifting source in the lives of others through using words of encouragement, likewise, it is imperative that we change our self conversation to one that is patient and uplifting. We must coach ourselves to high achievement. Any good coach knows it takes encouragement and patience to bring out the best in others. What a difference it would make if we could turn that coaching knowledge into an asset for ourselves. Our lives and the lives of those around us will also be blessed when we learn to coach ourselves with love and patience. The goal is not to be perfect. The goal is to be steadily improving. That is something we can all do.
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