Good morning and welcome to the increased reimpact podcast. I'm Justin Stewart, episode

1,841. You are the most important person you speak to every day. And it's very easy to

fall into the trap of beating up on yourself. It's easy to fall into the trap of demeaning

yourself and thinking worst case scenario and doubting yourself and your abilities and

focusing on the things that you cannot control. Now, some of us, the self-talk that we have

derives from our parents. It derives from the adults as little kids who bombarded us with

these negative thoughts. And a lot of times, the people who filled our minds with negative

thoughts are the people who love us the most. And as hard as it is to believe, sometimes

these people who love us the most, they have the best intentions. They're pushing us

or they pushed us to be the best version of ourselves. They expected more from us. And

as a result, at times, it felt like we couldn't, we were never enough. When we got an A minus,

why didn't we get an A? When we played well, why didn't we play better? When we made

the team, why don't we start? And when we started, why weren't we an all-star? And so this

constant dialogue that we got from people sometimes got in a way of us catching ourselves

winning. And so my invitation, my invitation to you is because you are the most important

person you speak to every day. My invitation to you, my challenge to you, starting today,

is to speak more powerfully to yourself. Speak more productively to yourself. Speak purposely,

purposefully to yourself. Because some of you listening to this, the way you talk to

yourself is so ineffective and so unproductive. And in some cases, so mean and terrible that

if your friends were to talk to you like that, you wouldn't be friends with them. If you

were to talk to your friends the way you talk to yourself, they wouldn't want to be friends

with you. And so today, the challenge for those of you who write in your journals, and

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