Using the word brave, we’ll start with the letter B. Brand yourself internally. We all have those little voices in our heads and some are louder than others. Companies pay thousands of dollars for ad agencies to develop a brand so that the business is readily recognizable. “You deserve a break today . . .”
We brand ourselves, often unconsciously, by our internal dialog. There is a body of evidence that proposes that language influences how we think. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “We are what we think about all day long.” Replace any negative talk inside your head with positive talk. Recall the words I used to describe a psychological fall: mistake, failure, fiasco, catastrophe. How you label the “fall” will influence whether you try again.
If you replace the word failure with lesson, for example, you are more likely not to give up. That’s what Thomas Edison did and 10,000 lessons later, he had a light bulb.
Use the word catastrophe as the descriptive and that’s when you crawl in a hole and never come out.
The word failure gets a bit tricky, because there is also a difference between calling something you did a failure and calling yourself a failure. Pay attention to how you speak about yourself to yourself. Calling yourself a failure can become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Developing a positive self-image and a brave heart starts with what’s inside your head!
Next up – R
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