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5 Easy Ways To Control Your Inner Voice

What To Expect?

In today’s article, 5 easy ways to control your inner voice. The discussion will be about the power the inner voice has over us and how we can best use it. We all have an inner voice whether it’s a loud voice or a silent voice. Both can affect us the same way. By taking control of this inner voice we will find true power in life over our decision making.

What Is An Inner Voice?

An inner voice, self-talk or an internal monologue. However, you like to call it.

Is stated online as a “person’s inner voice which provides a running verbal monologue of thoughts while they are conscious. It is usually tied to a person’s sense of self”.

For sure this is true for the majority of people. For some their inner voice is not a verbal monologue but of silent thoughts that don’t pop up like a Morgan Freeman monologue. More studies need to be done on the effects this has on peoples motivation.

Until recently I only found out myself that people have an inner monologue like in films whereas I only have silent thoughts more based on feelings than dialogue.

How It Affects The Mind

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An inner voice can effectively affect how you feel. If your inner voice is self-critical this will affect your overall self-esteem and your overall decision making. The inner voice can turn a high performing person into a shadow of their former self. When the inner voice creates a vacuum of negativity and doubt. Performance, mental health and thought patterns will change.

On the other hand, if your inner voice is supporting, encouraging and confident then performance, mental health and thought patterns will be enhanced to a positive outlook.

We know within ourselves these two inner voices and how it makes us feel and how life changes because of it. Unfortunately, no one within the education system in western culture to my knowledge is teaching this and how to control our inner voice to benefit our lives.

That’s why we need to teach ourselves and the people we teach, mentor and guide through life. The effects our inner voice has on our life.

Be Wary Of The Inner Bitch Lurking

If you don’t already know. I’m a massive fan of David Goggins. His mindset is a breath of fresh air. In one of his Instagram posts. He talks about being wary of the inner bitch lurking in all of us. His inner bitch is the 300-pound former self who always lurking ready to tempt him to eat the unhealthy option, to have a day off when it gets hard.

I think this is spot on. No matter how much we improve there is always going to be an inner voice within us that wants to revert back to our comfortable self. By understanding this and knowing what part of your life your inner voice is trying to lure you back to. This is self-awareness working in action. This is how you learn when it comes out, where it’s lurking and this help you have control over your inner voice that can benefit you. But remember the inner bitch will always be lurking.

5 Easy Ways To Control Your Inner Voice

1. Exercise

A quick way to get hold of that negative inner voice is by exercising. When we exercise it releases amazing chemicals that change the way we feel and think. The lazy inner voice wants you to stay on the couch and do nothing but by just exercising straight away that inner voice will be replaced by a winning one.

2. Understand When It Comes Alive

By being self-aware it allows us to understand ourselfes we wouldn’t normally recognise. When it comes to our inner voice. There will be certain times when it comes alive more than it normally does. Is it when there’s a challenge or when trying something new. Whatever it is, knowing when it happens allows you to quieten the negative inner voice with a conscious positive inner voice that moves you forward instead of holding you back.

3. Writing

Writing is a great way to change a negative inner voice. What writing can do is put thoughts to paper and you can see whether what your thinking is true or not. Plus the writing is like muscle training for the brain. When we write we naturally become positive and our inner voice realigns into a positive inner voice.

4. Have A Performance Coach

If you find it hard to change your inner voice. Having your own performance coach can help change the way your inner voice responds. There are countless professional athletes and people running their own business who have performance coach and the reason why it allows them to their best selves all the time. Even if you’re not a sports star or CEO of a company. You can still find affordable methods to have your own performance coach with who you can touch base weekly.

5. Let It Speak Then Tell It To F**k Off

A great tip from the book The Willpower Instinct. Is that any negative thoughts you have? Don’t fight it. Just let it pass through and then tell it to move along and change the thoughts to what you want to do. This brings an improvement in self-control and the overcoming of negative thoughts. By understanding, they don’t have control over me but I do them.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 easy ways to control your inner voice.

We all have an inner voice. But some use it to their advantage and others just let it happen to them.

Make it a habit to be in charge of your inner voice and be the guide for your future self.

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The Important Habit Of Starting Your Day The Right Way

What To Expect?

In today’s article, The Important Habit Of Starting Your Day The Right Way. It will be about a discussion of the benefits having a morning routine can have on your mental health. I will discuss how to make a morning routine a winning habit and how it can change your life not only mentally speaking but overall productivity throughout the day.

What Is The Best Way To Start Your Day Off Positively?

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This is the question I asked myself as I needed to find a way to jump-start my day.

I researched as many successful people I could find on their morning habits and every one of them had something different. Of course, there were similarities with a high percentage of waking up early and exercising. But they had their own personal touch to their morning routine.

The answer I found from all my research was to design a morning routine that suits your needs for mental stimulation and focus. Alongside this moving your body and feeding your body what it needs to unlock lasting energy. Will allow for best morning success.

Whatever you chose to do to start your day. It has to benefit you mentally and physically as well as helping you propel yourself into your day’s challenges.

If this is achieved you will feel amazing and more importantly feel the benefits throughout your whole day.

The Mental Benefits Of A Morning Routine

The important habit of starting your day the right way comes when your morning routine fits your needs. The mental benefits you will receive is all you need to carry on the morning routine forever.

For me, I felt energised, mentally clear, focussed, happy, more understanding, inspired. As I’m writing this the list could go on and on of how a morning routine benefits my mind.

Research has proven time and time again the importance of routine has on humans mental and physical health that benefits the individual. There is research on why hitting the snooze button isn’t good for us in the long term or picking up your phone straight away can affect our eyes and mental health if we look at negative stimuli first thing.

There is a reason why high performing individuals focus on having a morning routine. It’s because it works. We have all morning where we did all the things we hear we shouldn’t do in the morning and you always feel like crap for the rest of the day. Having a morning routine helps you become a better version of yourself.

Wouldn’t you want to see that best version of you every day?

How The Night Before Has A Big Impact On Your Morning

Before we start our day there is always something in-between that we are not conscious of and that’s of course sleep. When we wake up we need our brain to be ready to help us get up without distraction to start our day. This is the first win or loss of the day. Making sure we get this part right is of importance.

This decision doesn’t come from the moment you wake up. It comes from preparation. It comes from preparing the night before.

Setting out your intention for the day ahead, having a morning plan, goals, to-do list and a schedule. Allows you to sleep with a purpose. A purpose that you want to accomplish and while your asleep your brain will be subconsciously plotting to help you achieve that goal.

Whenever I need to wake up at a certain time of the day I’m excited to experience it. I always wake up with intention without fail unless for one thing.

Sleep Is Important

That’s the amount of sleep I’m having. For you start your morning without fail. Comes from the amount of sleep we get. Going to bed at 1 am and expecting to wake up at 6 am or fresh and ready to go will be battle. Some days you will win and some days you will hit the snooze and roll back over.

A successful morning routine comes from the amount of sleep your mind and body needs. When I was in my teens I needed 8 hours of sleep but now at 31, I need only 6 hours. Finding out how much sleep you need is vital.

Whatever time you want to start your day make sure to plan to go sleep 6 to 8 hours beforehand with an extra hour to wind down in bed. You will thank yourself the next day.

How To Make It A Habit

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  1. You have to want to do it
  2. Make it fun and easy to do
  3. Make it reflect your personality
  4. Try out different routines
  5. Have a goal tracker
  6. Praise yourself
  7. Forgive yourself for any mistakes

To form a successful new habit. First, you have to want to make it a habit. You make the first choice in the morning to start your day the right way and the choices that follow I solely down to you to want to do it.

From there you want to make your new morning routine fun and easy to attain.

No one wants to wake up having to do a 3-hour marathon unless your David Goggins. So if you want to change your whole morning routine which is great and go for it if you know you can do it.

But I would recommend is day by day add the habits you want so it can be easier for you to apply.

Also, play around with your morning habits some will work and some won’t. I tried doing my gratitude journal in the morning and it didn’t work for me instead I did it in my evening review.

This is your morning routine. It has to work for you not what others do.

Making The Habit Stick

To make it stick unlock the competitor and winner inside you. How I do this is I only focus internally on my own development and block out any noise from the outside.

I have a goal tracker where I can tick off every day I have completed my morning routine. This helps me focus on doing it but also praising myself for achieving what I have done.

Praising yourself for any little thing will help the habit to stick. What breaks the habit is when we are too hard on ourselves whether that be we woke up late on one day or we forgot to do a certain routine.

WHO CARES! Forgive yourself and do better the next day. What’s done is done, learn from it and put more energy into the area you need to work on.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, The Important Habit Of Starting Your Day The Right Way

My morning routine has transformed my mental health and my overall productivity throughout the day.

Design your own morning routine today!

Make it a habit and build that mental strength in the process.

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Hi, I'm Adam
Hi, I’m Adam

I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.