Negative self-talk comes from cognitive dissonance, the gap between your actions and your values. You can't fix it by changing your values or making excuses. The only way out is to change the behavior itself, aligning your actions with what you actually believe in.
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Guys, so today I want to teach you the fastest way to eliminate your negative self-talk and regain your confidence. Okay, so we all have actions and behaviors and we have values and morals. Okay, actions and behaviors, things like alcohol use, angry outbursts, being lazy, procrastination. Values, morals, things like integrity, honesty, hard work, being in shape. Okay, anytime there is an inconsistency between your actions and behaviors and your values and morals, Okay. It creates what's called cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a sense of disharmony within yourself. It's feelings of discomfort. It's an internal sense of confusion because you are behaving in a way that is not in alignment with the things that you value and how you want to see yourself. Okay. Now, typically, ways to eliminate cognitive dissonance are to either A, change your values. So change these things. Most people don't want to change these things because this is really what our identity is based on, our values, or change our behavior. Okay. Now, a lot of people don't change their behavior. So instead, what they do is they minimize their actions. They externalize their actions, so they blame other people. They compare themselves to other people to try to make themselves feel better about what they do. They justify their actions and behaviors or they rationalize them. Okay, guys. So any time there's an inconsistency between these two things, your actions and behaviors and your values and morals, you're going to have negative self-talk. Your self-talk is always going to parallel what you do. Okay guys, so what's the goal here to eliminate the cognitive dissonance and regain your self-esteem is to change your behavior. Change your behavior. Okay guys, so a lot of people are trying to think and feel their way into better behaviors. Instead of behaving their way into better thoughts and better feelings.