News Flash:
“Top Performers all over the world study released.
97% of top performers are unreasonably optimistic”
Have you ever wanted to have a conversation with someone you don’t know who sounds really dull No? – me neither, you’re the voice of the company so make it a good one.
Ever had the experience of loosing your car keys? Remember how you were saying to yourself “I cant find my car keys, I cant remember where I put them, oh this is silly where did I put them.”? What tonality are you using in that situation, think about it now.
Internal Dialogue is the name given to the voice we all talk to ourselves in. Recognising how your own internal dialogue sounds may be the most important step in giving yourself the freedom to feel great/energised/busy/calm/relaxed (you choose) whenever you want.
Do this now.
Imagine looking in the mirror saying to yourself “hey there” in the voice of someone who sounds really sexy.
Now imagine a grumpy voice saying “hey there”, feels different doesn’t it.
The more you say things to yourself with energised confident tones the more energised and confident you will feel. Internal dialogue can be the starting point for how we feel from day to day and minute to minute, and is the beginning of behaviour patterns, these may improve your communication skills or ability to deal with unusual situations. At first it can feel a little unusual and that’s ok, it’s just new.
Learning how to consciously adjust your internal dialogue tonality is an easy skill to master, some people are able to do it straight away and others take a little practice before becoming really confident.
As an exercise choose something that you know would usually give yourself a hard time about, people choose work situations, arguments, personal sabotage such as I’m too fat/thin, short/tall, just damn ugly.
Now imagine Mickey Mouse saying those exact same things.
Or
How would you sound on helium saying those things?
It just doesn’t work the same does it?
As you’ve probably already realised one of the ways to keep a productive state is to pay attention to the tone of your own internal dialogue.
How do you sound when you’re unreasonably optimistic?
Enjoy
Andy
[Read more...]Source: http://www.andrewduffy.co.uk/attitude-is-a-state-of-mind/
