Are you tired of all those negative thoughts messing up your day?
Well, now, it's time to take charge.
Hey, it's Kirk Duncan.
And I'm bringing to you right now a very important skill that's going to change your life seriously
in every moment and everything you're going to face in life is how to manage this negative
thinking.
I mean, you know how it happens.
I mean, just out of nowhere, all of a sudden comes this barrage of negative thoughts coming
at you.
And most of us don't learn this skill until later in life because we have to learn this
skill to survive what we're facing in life.
So, I don't know where you are right now currently in your life but this is the skill you've
got to learn right now.
Because of you have not, these kind of thoughts are just eating you up and tearing you up
on the inside.
And just so you know, you're not alone in this experience, You're not alone.
There is so many people who have no clue how to do this and they don't realize that there's
actually training here that can help you, so you can manage your negative thoughts inside
your head.
So, lets talk about what goes on here with negative thoughts.
Negative thoughts comes from so many different places.
It can come from people.
It can come from past experiences, it can come from media, it can come from just having
fears in life.
But it''s what you do with the negative thought that actually gives you that advantage or
disadvantage in life.
So, check it out.
When you have a negative thought, it takes you down.
When you have a positive thought, it lifts you up.
If you ponder on negative thoughts long enough, you literally can lower your self-esteem and
your self-confidence way, way, way, way down to the point you literally lose hope.
And you really want to do anything in life.
Same thing on positive thoughts.
Thinking in a positive manner and looking at things objectively literally can move you
and upper way where you literally feel like you can accomplish anything.
You're relentless.
You just get up and go in the morning.
And you just pursue your goals and your dreams in life just like nothing's going to stop
you.
So, what goes on inside your head does matter.
Now, here's a consideration for you.
One of the first steps you got to have in managing these negative thoughts to be aware
when the thought is happening.
Because with awareness you can cause an interrupt.
You know, let's say you're having a thought and it's beginning to go in the negative direction,
you can cause an interrupt right in the middle of this thought happening.
Because you're aware and you're paying attention, you can turn that thought and instead of heading
it down into a negative thought and letting it just sit in your head, you can switch that
thought into a more productive thought.
Now, this takes some awareness.
It takes some paying attention.
It means you're really noticing and watching what's going on inside your head.
Year after year you've got uncustomed to this kind of negative thoughts so you just them
do whatever they're going to do.
But today, you got to stop letting negative thoughts have their way inside your head.
So, you can change this.
You can change.
And you can change that today.
It doesn't take a long time to make this change and be able to have the power to make a difference
in your life.
So, let's go over a couple of things here to be able to help you have some actual steps
on what to do.
Number 1 is awareness.
Being conscious of those negative thoughts and what the thought really is.
Second, is to have that interrupt ability.
Meaning, that you have a different thought to go to.
What I like to do is, when I have a negative thought pop up in my head, if I can't think
of anything positive, well, I'm just going to think of the opposite of that negative
thought.
Most common negative thought you'll hear inside your head is that your not good enough.
You're not smart, you're not good enough, you don't have what it takes.
And those are very, very common amongst all of us as people.
But when you hear thought of I'm not good enough, just flip that around into a different
thought of like you know what?
"I have what it takes.
I can figure this out.
I'm a smart guy.
I can do good right now."
So, if you can just think in an interrupt process of just flipping it around to being
a positive thought, you can redirect you're thinking.
And that's really what you're doing here because whatever your attention goes, so do your actions.
So if you're attention is this way, you're going to have negative actions.
If your attention is this way, you're going to have great actions.
So, in that interrupt process, you think of the opposite.
And that as simple, simple way to come up with what to say.
Now, even if that is tough and difficult.
And you don't know how to flip it around and into a positive statement.
Here's what I do.
I had to make this so simple for me but it really, really works.
I just need 1 word.
When a negative thought comes in my head, I'm going to think one positive word.
Because sometimes trying to figuring it out, I can't even think what to say or what to
think inside my head.
So, i got one word.
And I'll tell you what my one word is.
It's gladiator.
So, when I think of negative thought and it's actually in my head, I would just say that
one word, gladiator.
So, if I hear the word, If I hear the phrase in my head, it goes, "Ah, you're not good
enough for this."
Then I just can blur it out inside my mind.
"Oh, yeah?
Gladiator."
Because gladiator means, you know, armor, swords and shields and you know, strong.
And so, I had this one word I say to cause the interrupt.
That's what you want to get good at is interrupting the negative thought, so it can't finish itself
out and just sit inside of you and just tear you up and make you all yuck.
You know, and just make you all just like down there in the dumps.
So, I need one word to be able to turn that and so, it's moving towards a positive direction.
So pick your one word.
Really!
It's this easy.
Pick the one word.
Now, if you want to add a little bit more power to it, pick one sentence.
Now, what I do is I take 7 descriptive words and I slam them together to one sentence.
So, this is my one sentence.
I outrageously and openly express myself as trusting, deserving, fearless leader.
Check it out, it's got 7 descriptive words in there that creates this one sentence.
So, here is one word.
Now this is 7 individual words put together in one sentence.
I outrageously and openly express myself as trusting, deserving, fearless leader.
That one sentence, I have been using that one sentence now for almost 15 years, right?
To win the battle in your head with negative thinking, is to have the power to interrupt,
to change the direction.
Because you're going to get hit by negative thoughts by being nervous, by being afraid
or whatever's going on in your life.
It's going to happen.
Sometimes it's going to happen.
But do you have the power to turn it, to go to other direction.
So to be aware when it's happening, get in there and interrupt with the one word or the
one sentence.
I love this because if I can just cause that interrupt, it's going to end up going in a
positive direction.
Then to reinforce it, to reinforce that moment, to make sure I have enough strength to cause
it to become positive means that I'm going to just add in some song lyrics, you know?
You know you can have a song stuck in your head.
Music is so powerful.
It moves the body, it moves mind, it moves soul.
So, what you do is you find 1 or 2 songs that you just really, really love.
Go print the lyrics off, make sure the lyrics are good for you.
Sometimes a good songs have really weird lyrics.
But get some lyrics that really work for you.
And practice singing the song.
Get the lyrics inside of you.
So, I'll use my 1 word or use my 1 sentence to cause that interrupt then as soon as that
interrupt happens, I click right in to humming the song or singing the song to myself that
has this powerful lyrics to it.
Now, with these lyrics, I now can finish the movement to creating a positive experience
inside my mind.
It's what it takes.
Because really, if you don't learn how to interrupt this from going down, my friend
you're going to keep ending up down here at the bottom.
So, today's a great day to make that interrupt happen.
And make it happen.
The very next moment this happens, you cause the interrupt.
At a 3 day event called Master your influence, we talk a lot about how to manage the thoughts
inside your head.
You may want to check that out because if this is something that really matters to you
and you really want to get moving forward in your life, go check out my website, check
out what we do here.
Because these are life skills.
Not just fun little things we do, I mean these are serious life skills that you'll use for
the rest of your life.
Go check it out.
You'll love it.