Speak Life!

I just returned from a 2-day trainer/speaker workshop in Kansas City. My friend, "Mr. Lifestyle" aka Jamie Swindell did the honors. It was phenomenal!

How? You wonder? Well, unlike most "train-the-trainer" events, Jamie started the day off with us focusing on our internal dialogue and how it hinders our external dialogue. He mentioned that we trainers have huge egos ... Naaahhh! To learn from another trainer, we had to promise to take our egos off, throw them out, and not hurt anyone. Okay, so it was a little hokey. But guess what? That little hokey exercise helped me see that my internal self-talk has kept me from delivering 100%. You see, not only is "Mr. Lifestyle" a great trainer...he makes six figures and only works 5 -- yep, count 'em -- f-i-v-e days a month, teaching Excel no less.

Anyway, this training got me to thinking about what I'm saying to myself. What's keeping me from breaking out of the rut we trainers sometimes crawl in to? Yep, you got it! Negative self-talk! Mmm...reminds me of a Proverb I heard recently: "The power of life and death is in the tongue" How about we start speaking life?