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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 Fk 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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Within this article, we will tap into the Important Tips To Understand How To Boost Self-Belief. Self-belief is such an important part of progressing as a person and knowing how to boost it yourself can be very beneficial. I hope you enjoy the tips and can see the progress in applying them.

Team Work Makes The Dream Work To Boost Self-Belief

Keeping ourselves confident and the belief that we can achieve our goals can be really hard sometimes and it takes incredible will power to pursue things alone.

Even harder to succeed in life this way.

Humans have proved when we work together to accomplish a task the chances of completing it goes up dramatically compared to one individual. Which is quite easy to understand as more heads are better than one as the saying goes.

Working together and believing in others has helped pre-pal humanity to where it is today. From when we hunted in packs for animals much bigger in size than ourselves to going orienteering expeditions where working together is paramount.

Throughout history, it shows the power of believing in others and working together as a team really works. This post is here to help show you that you can achieve anything you want with the help of others and how you can help others to boost their confidence too.

The impact of this is so important, just look at sports for example of the impact a crowd can have on the home team or a long-distance sprinter coming into the final lap of her home Olympics and has the whole crowd cheering her on.

That kind of positive energy moves people to places they never thought was possible themselves.

Sometimes when you see only from your own two eyes. The path can be narrow but with people behind you, they can see what your seeing and more.

That’s the power working together can have, especially coaches who can help you visualise an even better path for you to go on.

Find Someone That Empowers You To Boost Self Belief

Important Tips To Understand How To Boost Self-Belief

Throughout my life, I’ve had teachers, mentors and coaches who have helped guide me to where I am today. Without their help, I would be a different person in a different place in my life. That’s the importance of others believing in you but it can defiantly happen in the opposite direction too.

Imagine if you had people around you, who always laughed at your big ideas, always say you can’t do that or just made you feel less confident after speaking to them. How would this make you feel?

It’s a simple question and the answer is drained.

This is because your self-belief is like a car fuel tank. With extra weight within the car, the quicker the fuel tank will empty. This is the same for your self-belief muscle.

People in life will try to drag you down to their level. So either you have to make sure your self-belief tank is full beforehand or drop off the extra baggage to keep your self-belief intact.

You Have The Control To Boost Your Self-Belief

If this is you at the moment, do not worry, this is all in your control and it changes immediately if you take action. You can quickly find the right people to motivate and give you confidence in the short term through self-help books, YouTube videos and podcasts. Where you can find people with the right mindset to give you confidence in your ideas and future.

But the long term solution is surrounding yourself with people who motivate you in life and help you move forward. This can be a partner that’s supportive, a personal trainer that helps guide you to the body you want or a team around you that helps you grow your business.

Having the right people around gives you confidence in achieving any of your goals in life.

Important Tip To Understand How To Help Others With Their Self-Belief

Once you have yourself ticked off then it’s time serve others in helping them with their self-belief.

The best way for you to serve others is to put them first. You can do this by listening to them so they can be heard or it could even be you passing on your own experience to help them overcome a challenge.

Whatever it is putting them first will double down on their self-belief that they can achieve the outcome they desire.

By helping them win you will see someone shock themselves at how good they can be. For instance, a personal trainer at the gym can guide you to levels you never thought your body could go to.

Even if you’re just a friend, you can help by just believing in them and supporting them that way. Just finding positives for people and being their cheerleader can dramatically boost self-belief in another person.

With so many peoples self-belief not where it should be. Small changes can make a huge difference in someone’s life. Even if the other person feels 1% better in their belief of themselves. That still a win.

Self Guided Important Tips To Understand How To Boost Self-Belief

Look back at your own life of all the people who have supported you and you will see ways you be that person too for others. Whether that be as a friend or a profession.

Review your self-talk and ask yourself is it positive or negative, then slowly change these habits.

Be self-aware of your family, friends, partners, colleagues etc who bring you down and fix it any way you thinks best.

Final Thoughts

Again I hope you enjoyed todays article – Important Tips To Understand How To Boost Self-Belief

When self -belief in ourselves and others is practised. So much good can happen.

So I challenge you today to do 1 thing that helps you believe in yourself. Then challenge yourself to do the same for someone else.

Have a great day and see you in the next post.

Hi I’m Adam