The Change Show

Episode Summary: A simple, practical 60-item checklist for creating positive change, read from the book What to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Shad Helmstetter — all about rewiring your brain with positive thoughts and self-talk.

What You’ll Learn

• A 60-item checklist for creating positive change, from the book What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
• The core idea: what you feed your mind is what you become
• A tip for listening to Kindle books as audiobooks using Amazon Alexa

Today’s episode reads a simple but practical checklist from What to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D. The book is about rewiring your brain with positive thoughts and self-talk, and the checklist is meant to introduce positive habits as change happens from within. What you feed your mind is what you become — feed it positivity, and the world around you changes.

Tip: if you have an Amazon Alexa device, you can often buy Kindle books for $3.99 or less and listen to them through the Alexa app like an audiobook. The voice is a little robotic and nowhere near Audible’s production quality, but it’s a way to consume a lot more books at a fraction of the cost.

Whatever you put into your mind in one way or another, is what you will get back out, in one way or another.

What Does Your Self-Talk Sound Like?

Are you kind, positive, and encouraging when you talk to yourself? Or do you beat yourself up over everything left on your to-do list, the projects you never have time for, or the goals that haven’t happened yet?

Ways to Create Positive Change

1. Believe in yourself
2. Keep your priorities straight
3. Take responsibility for yourself
4. Create your own future
5. Meditate daily
6. Practice mindfulness
7. Focus on what you want
8. Attract what you desire
9. Learn to visualize the outcome of your goals
10. Never let anyone control your destiny for you
11. Be creative
12. Think big
13. Control stress
14. Be aggressive and assertive
15. Think positively
16. Chart your own course
17. Set specific goals and review them often
18. Spend some time each day improving your mind
19. Review your results and readjust as necessary
20. Be tolerant
21. Do everything with love
22. Don’t hate
23. Have courage
24. Recognize that most of what we believe about life is an illusion
25. Be honest
26. Work hard
27. Believe money is good and it will come to you
28. Have faith
29. If you agree to do it, enjoy it
30. Be strong
31. Show affection
32. Manage your time
33. Dress right
34. Learn to sell yourself
35. Take time off
36. Believe in a “higher self”
37. Eat right
38. Live prudently
39. Seek the aid of others who are in sympathy with your goals
40. Give assistance to others
41. Keep motivated
42. Be optimistic
43. Trust others and be worthy of trust
44. Recognize that success is more than money
45. Be kind
46. See the “big picture”
47. Take care of the details
48. Get organized
49. Don’t procrastinate
50. Stay in control
51. Keep fit
52. See problems as “opportunities”
53. Learn everything you can about your job
54. Don’t be afraid of success
55. Be generous to others
56. Believe in God
57. Reach a little higher than you thought you could
58. Set your sights
59. Take action
60. Never give up

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

Show Notes & Links

• What to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Shad Helmstetter (Amazon)

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