Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. This is Justin

Sua episode 1,775. Today we are talking about a specific type of self-talk. I

was once working with an athlete and this athlete told me that he was out on

positive affirmations. And I said, what would you mean by that? He goes, I hear all

this talk about telling yourself that you should believe in yourself and you're the

best and you can do this. And he says, that's not my how my brain works. If I

tell myself, oh, I'm the best, I got this. You can do it. Remember everything

you've ever done? He says that his mind is going to tell him, I see what you're

doing. You're trying to give me this positivity story, make yourself feel good,

but the reality is you're not and then is going to make things even worse. And so

I introduced to him a different type of self-talk rather than thinking positive

self-talk, think productive self-talk. Now he was confused at first. He's like,

what's the difference? I said, well, productive self-talk isn't necessarily

positive, but it's helpful. You can utilize it to actually do something. And he

goes on ask, well, what does that mean? I said, productive self-talk could be

something as simple as a mechanical cue. It could be telling yourself something

you need to do. It could be telling yourself something you're going to accomplish.

It could be identifying and focusing on what you can control. It's not

necessarily talk to build yourself up to make you feel good, but it's talk to

give you reminders to help you perform good and perform better. So today, my

tool for you today to go out there and practice is productive self-talk. What do

you need to accomplish? What do you need to remember? What do you need to do? And as

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