GO! 

Yesterday you learned to use your internal STOP sign to eliminate negative thoughts and expressions in order to grow our age esteem.

Let’s take it a step further.  It isn’t enough to simply stop our negative thoughts.  We need to also replace them with something positive.  A positive thought or expression is uplifting and moves us forward.  Negatives are like weights that hold us down.

Now that you have used your STOP sign to eliminate negatives that creep into your language, it is time to replace those negative words and expressions with positive thoughts and words.  Just as the streetlights turn from stop to go, so will your thoughts.

• Each time you catch yourself using a negative expression such as “I can’t”, STOP!
• Now GO! Transform your words to make them positive.  “I could never learn to use these new fangled phones” becomes “I will learn to use my new phone’s multiple possibilities”.
• GO! with your new positive vocabulary until it becomes second nature.

You will soon find that you have a whole new attitude that enhances your age esteem and your life will become happier.

Bonnie Fatio

STOP!

How many times do you stop automatically when you see a stop sign?  You don’t even think about it.  Your reaction is automatic.  You stop!

Wouldn’t it be great if we had little stop signs that would flash in other aspects of our life?  I’m thinking of a stop sign flashing when negative thoughts come to mind such as “I am too old for that; I am not good enough; I am too skinny or fat”.

And what about those moments of procrastination when we put something off until later or talk ourselves out of purchasing something we can afford and that would make our lives easier or more pleasurable simply ‘because’.

Let’s add lack of self-confidence while we are at it.

All of these are the antipathy of age esteem.  You can learn to erase these negatives from your life and to grow your age esteem.

• Picture a STOP sign.  Use the one pictured above as an example.
• Every time you catch yourself saying something negative either out loud or in your mind, picture the STOP sign.
• Stop that thought!

It is as easy as that.

Bonnie Fatio