(and other nice things we tell ourselves)
We all have our baggage and ugly thoughts we carry around.
Even with all the skills I can teach you, you will never EVER do away with ugly thinking.
With practice, you can get better at shifting where possible. And, where that’s not possible, carry it with you.
My ugly bag of tricks includes these gems: What am I doing? You can’t do that. You need to lose some weight. You need to grow up. Your arms are terrible. You aren’t that funny. You are not nearly as cute as you think you are.
Join the human race and embrace your imperfect brain.
This who we are. We have ugly thoughts. All of us.
The question is, what are you going to do with yours? Are you going to carry them with you and soldier on or are you going to cozy up to them and tell them how right they are?
Our nasty thoughts about ourselves and our abilities are not isolated to us. We all do it.
We all have a choice about how we handle those nasty little gems. We can bow down to them or we can acknowledge our human-ness and pursue our dreams despite them.
The next time you see that person that seems to have it all together, I promise you they have their very own bag of garbage they are hauling around. Her brain is a dumpster fire sometimes too, just like yours.
Stop beating yourself up when you realize your brain is causing all your problems. Get to work cleaning it up and being more present.
Recognize the ugly thoughts you are believing.
Stop running on auto-pilot.
Work through them, shift them, or acknowledge their presence and carry them with you to your success. Don’t allow them to be more important than they are.
They are just words in your head. Words you choose. Words you allow to be there.
You didn’t get the one faulty brain that was wired wrong. You got a human brain.