Change Your Inner Voice : 6 Things to Say to Yourself Everyday.

I wrote this blog post sometime last year. I wrote it for my old site, but the sentiment rings true today. What we say to ourselves matter. Until we are in the position to say positive things without prompting, this is a step that can help take us there! I hope you can use this in your journey – and change the way you talk to yourself!

So here’s the deal.. I have to talk to myself daily. Not just reminders of my to dos, but I have to talk myself up daily. I have to remind myself of my value and my worth. Every. Single. Day.

And while I’d love to tell you that after a year you don’t have to actually say it anymore, and maybe it will work that way for you, but it hasn’t for me. What I say changes depending on my season, but the need to say something to myself hasn’t changed at all.

One of the little things I do to remind myself to speak positivity is to put Post It notes on my mirrors. All of them. My bathroom mirror, the full length mirror in my bedroom.. I even have my middle school aged son writing post its for his mirrors.

I have 3 notes on my mirrors at all times, but I have 6 categories they fall into. It works for everyone, no matter of age or gender! I even leave Post It’s for my husband. So he can see what I see when he looks in the mirror.

Here are my 6 Post It Must Haves for your Mirror :

1. What is your number one insecurity about your appearance? Now turn that into a positive. Example, your stretch marks are stunning and they brought you 2 beautiful babies.

2. What is something you have been dreaming of? Now make it a reality. Example, your blog has 1,000 subscribers.

3. What holds you back? Now make it something that can propel you. Example, your anxiety gives you a voice and compassion for others facing the same thing.

4. What is something you’ve been working toward? Write a statement as if it has already happened. Example, You lost 50 lbs.. Way to go!

5. Your Weekly Goal.

6. Your Word of the Year.

The truth is the words we say in our heads to ourselves matter. And when we look in the mirror and say negative things, it changes us. It changes our confidence level, it changes our mood, it changes our behavior. But if we can remind ourselves to be positive, by leaving notes on the mirror we can change the voice we speak to ourselves in.

When we change the way we speak to ourselves, when we speak with kindness and positivity it changes our life. It changes our relationships. It changes our outlook. It changes our world.

Until next time –

ALL THE MAGIC,