Speaker B argues that negative self-talk is destroying your confidence. She recommends becoming your own greatest encourager through affirmations and positive internal dialogue. Her wife discovered she had Olympic-level athlete DNA, which transformed her mindset about aging and fitness after a health-coaching session.
For those that haven't read the book or thinking about getting it, we've mentioned the habit before the habit, the thank you walk, getting the morning sunlight, master your mornings. What are some of your other favorite habits that you would share?
Hal, I love become your own greatest encourager. I just love that one because so many of us beat ourselves up with negative thoughts and with fear and worry and doubt. And we have a negative thought and it just spirals with overthinking. If you had a best friend who was struggling what would you do? You'd say, you got this. I believe in you. I know you could do it. And yet we don't say that to ourselves. So I want people to become their own greatest encourager, where you're always speaking life to yourself. And you talk about affirmations. Affirmations are powerful. The words we say and the thoughts we think become the reality and the life that we live. And I tell the story about my wife who was being really negative. She's like, I'm getting old. My body's breaking down. I'm sore all the time. I try to work out. It doesn't work. I try to lose weight. It doesn't work. She said, I'll never be like I was when I was younger. I should just give up. It's pointless. It's hopeless. And I said, honey, we got to stay positive. And she said, shut up, positive guy. I go away to a speaking engagement. I come back after 2 days, and she's like a different person. She's all light and free and happier than ever. And I'm thinking, okay, what's going on here? I leave for 2 days, I come back, and now she's happier than ever. I said, did you find a boyfriend or something? And she said, no, no, I did that the health coaching call with Eve. It's that company where they look at your blood, your genes, and your DNA. And they told her, this is really rare. We don't see this often. You have the genes of an Olympic athlete.
So now my wife is now walking around the house saying, I am an Olympic athlete.
You want to play pickleball tomorrow? She said, I'll crush you because I'm an Olympic athlete. I saw the power. I saw the change. The inflammation goes away, the soreness goes away. And here we are several years later. She feels and looks better than ever.
