Shut The Duck Up!

Have you heard of the phrase “We are what we eat”? Of course you have.... Well there’s another phrase that’s just as true - ”We are what we think”. In fact, when all is said and done, the quality of our life really does come down to how we communicate to ourselves. You know that little voice inside your head that says “go on eat that chocolate”. Do you ever say anything like “go on have another helping, no one’s looking” or “it doesn’t matter you’ve blown it already” or “you’re stupid you won’t achieve anything”? What sort of a voice do you have going on inside your head?

Let me ask you a question, what do you think stops us from being more positive? I think there's 2 reasons. Firstly, being negative and giving ourselves a hard time is something we’ve practised - and like anything we practise doing long enough - we become good at it, and we generally just keep on doing it. Now, the other reason is that we don't like being different to the crowd - being negative stops us from standing out. Positive people tend to take action and get on with life... they stand out as being different... being different can feel a bit uncomfortable at first... and who wants to feel uncomfortable ?

And so let me ask you another question. If I was to step inside your head for a day would I come out at the end of the day going “WOW THAT WAS FANTASTIC” or would I come out going “OH THAT WAS REALLY REALLY HARD WORK”? You see for many people that voice going off inside their heads is actually like a never ending duck quacking inside their head all day long. Now whilst we don’t actually have a duck quacking inside our heads whether you’ve realised it or not as I’m talk to you right now you’re probably talking to yourself either agreeing or disagreeing with what I’m saying. And the fact is a lot of what we say in our head is not always positive and so what I want you to do is when you start to give yourself a hard time imagine it is like a duck quacking in your head quacking away giving yourself a hard time and just tell that duck to shut up.

Shut the duck up!

... and start to be more positive about what you’re doing. Spend some time now answering the following questions and then, for the rest of this week, pay special attention to how you talk to yourself, listen to it, and be curious as to how you talk to yourself.

How do you talk to yourself if you get things wrong? What words and tone do you use?
Do you treat yourself as well as you would treat your best friend? If not, what do you do differently?
What sort of messages of encouragement do you give yourself?

You see the people who have successfully become slimmer have stopped battling with themselves. They’ve learned to be kinder and more accepting of themselves and their mistakes. Now they changed and so can you. The most important thing to remember is that you get what you focus on. So focus on feeling good for no reason at all. Look for the positive things that you’re doing and give yourself some credit and you will achieve more.

Have a great day! Quack!

Pete.

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