514 | Marisa Peer: “Tell Your Brain What You Want.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Marisa Peer is back on the show to talk about the importance of the words we use when we talk to ourselves, and how we can better communicate with our brain to reach our goals and get what we want.
Marisa’s website is marisapeer.com. Her new book, I Am Enough: Mark Your Mirror and Change Your Life, is available in local bookstores or at amazon.com. You can find today’s full talk here.
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| 0:00.0 | Where is the |
| 0:20.4 | show. |
| 0:30.4 | We've got Marissa here back on the show and today Marissa is |
| 0:34.4 | talking about words. |
| 0:36.4 | You know words are so powerful. |
| 0:40.4 | I was watching the bronze James is a barbershop show on HBO a |
| 0:45.4 | couple of weeks ago and there was a woman on the show. |
| 0:47.4 | She's a professional basketball player and she says something to |
| 0:50.4 | the effect of the person we talk with the most is ourselves. |
| 0:56.4 | And I was like, oh, that is so true. |
| 0:58.4 | And we have to ask ourselves when we are talking with ourselves, |
| 1:02.4 | are we doing it in a way that empowers us or we doing it in a |
| 1:06.4 | destructive way? |
| 1:08.4 | Are we encouraging ourselves or are we criticizing ourselves? |
| 1:12.4 | Because it's the words that we use that create the |
| 1:16.4 | circumstances in the conditions of our lives. |
| 1:19.4 | So we must change our words. |
| 1:22.4 | Here's Marissa. |
| 1:23.4 | So you've got to tell your brain what you want. |
| 1:26.4 | So what happens when you say, oh God, I'm working so hard. |
| 1:30.4 | I really want to have a day off. |
| 1:32.4 | I'd love a week off flying in bed. |
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