612: Talking to Yourself Isn't Crazy (It's How You Master Your Mind)
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
When you see someone talking to themself in public, your first thought might be that person is a little crazy and maybe has mental health issues. But what if it's actually one of the most powerful forms of self-leadership?
In today's episode, I'll show you how using your own voice can immediately transform your mental and emotional state, elevate your focus, and help you lead yourself through any challenge.
I'll share a story about a close friend who inspired me with his daily "self-talk" practice, and how I came to realize he wasn't acting crazy—he was actually being very intentional. Over time, I discovered that speaking affirmations and prayers out loud with intensity, not just thinking them silently, has a far more profound impact on my mental, emotional state, and physical nervous system.
Lastly, I'll walk you through a simple 14-day challenge that you can track and rate the impact it's having on you. Because the truth is, silence helps you observe your mind, but your voice can lead it.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Why talking to yourself out loud isn't crazy, it's conscious self-leadership.
- How spoken affirmations and prayers can instantly shift your emotions.
- The science behind distanced self-talk and how it reprograms your identity.
- The difference that silence and speaking out loud has on your Miracle Morning.
- A 14-day challenge to strengthen your focus, faith, and mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, |
| 0:16.5 | as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, |
| 0:22.6 | and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | This is Hal Elrod, and we have all heard the joke or the stipulation that people who talk to themselves are crazy, right? Conjures up the image of the |
| 0:48.3 | person on the corner, street corner, you know, jibbering and jabbering and talking erratically to |
| 0:53.0 | themselves. But I've come to realize |
| 0:54.7 | that if you don't talk to yourself, you're missing the single most powerful form of mental |
| 0:59.2 | training that there is. One of the most effective ways to impact your mental and emotional state |
| 1:05.2 | is to talk to yourself. And I'm not talking about just the thoughts that you think. Yes, |
| 1:10.2 | that's crucial. But I'm talking about about just the thoughts that you think. Yes, that's crucial, |
| 1:11.2 | but I'm talking about out loud, actually verbally speaking the words out loud that impact your |
| 1:17.5 | consciousness. And you think about when you speak something out loud, when you say something |
| 1:23.0 | verbally, you're literally creating sound waves that, you know, reverberate out of your mouth and |
| 1:27.4 | then into your eardrums and they have an impact on you. Think about it. you're literally creating sound waves that, you know, reverberate out of your mouth and then |
| 1:27.6 | into your eardrums and they have an impact on you. Think about if someone else is talking to you. |
| 1:34.1 | The words, the tone, the intensity, the energy, all of verbal communication impacts us significantly. |
| 1:46.9 | Now, when we think thoughts, and you've probably experienced this where if you meditate before, have you ever had that happen where you're |
| 1:50.2 | meditating and while you're meditating, you can't help the thoughts in your head or, am I doing |
| 1:55.2 | this right? Is this working? Am I wasting my time? Most of us can relate to that. So today I'm going to show you how to |
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