Hinesh Chauhan spent five hours on a long drive stuck in negative self-talk, then shifted his mindset by imagining Barney Stinson telling him to start being awesome. A simple reframe that turned the whole drive around.
I'm on a long drive and had a lot of time with my thoughts which is sometimes a really good thing and at times I'm not such a great thing. But I'm processing a lot of things and I've got a lot on my plate. Being away from home for several days means that I'm going to fall behind fall behind on what I've been working on and already feeling a bit overwhelmed. I start having a lot of negative self talk, a lot of critical thoughts, critical negative thinking. And so I, I realized something. Just think about Barney Stinson. What would Barney Stinson say? You know what Barney Stinson would say? He would say start being awesome. Just start being awesome. And I went through some positive talk. So change that set. What would someone else say to me? And I'm feeling better after five hours on the road, the first four hours being negative all of a sudden I was able to switch it again, try it out.
