I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for this week, how to rewire those negative thoughts and finally
give yourself some love. So this has been something that the importance and in fact the concern around it has become far far more important in the last few years as I've really dived in deep with some people, and many of these people have had huge success from a physical perspective over that journey, over their journeys, and many of them are very hard on themselves and not satisfied,
not content, not necessarily happy. And the reason is they set their goals, they reach their goals, they set their new goal, they reach their new goal, but there is never or very rarely moments of little celebrating those little wins or being proud of themselves or having any kind of self love or self acceptance. So I was thinking before I did this sure moment, like, where does this negative self talk or this inability to really give ourself any self love come from? And that's a big part
of growing up. You know, it's an insult that person loves themselves, is what you say to someone who's sort of got tickets on themselves as a bit of a diket, But it's interesting how that message kind of gets put in our head at a really young age. And then there's the marketing world where everyone's trying to always sell us something because it's all about improving ourselves and changing ourselves, and it's effectively the message is you're not good enough
the way you are. To be proud of yourself or to say good things about yourself is really hard in this world. So there's obviously a number of environmental factors that impact the way we talk to ourselves. So let's have a little look at what actually happens when we
talk to it. So we have sixty thousand thoughts per day, and then ninety five percent of these sorts are repeated, So we are just having the continual negative thoughts over and over and over and over again until we either believe them or we feel like we can't escape them, or we feel like we're haunted by them, whatever it might be. And if you're not combating that with any positive thoughts or things that you're proud of, there is
no balance there. I mean, if you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're telling yourself day in day out how you hate yourself, or you're continually just focusing on the things you don't like. You never actually acknowledge the things that you're proud of. You never acknowledge the parts of your body, or the parts of your personality, or the parts of your life that you are happy with, that you are grateful for and that you do like.
You are just going to be living in this perpetually negative environment in which no matter what you seem to be doing, you're never going to be satisfied. You're never going to be happy. So let's try and flip this on its head and look at this as the positive we have. The average person has sixty thousand thoughts per day.
The good news is they're on repeat. So if we can turn those positive thoughts onto repeat instead of those negative thoughts onto repeat, and we're having that many thoughts per day, imagine how quickly the worm will turn as we start to say nice things to ourself over and over and over again. And it doesn't need to be big things. It might be I look good in these jeans. It might be I'm proud of myself because I didn't
have any chocolate today. It might be I'm a good mum, I'm a good friend, I'm a good boss, I'm a good work colleague, whatever, whatever is unique and personal to your circumstance. Change the script, flip the script, start talking nicely to yourself. Put that button on repeat, and I promise you it'll make a difference. So today I'm going
to give you a really simple piece of homework. Every day for the next seven days, you need to wake up and you need to look at yourself in the mirror and you need to say just one thing positive to yourself. It can be a physical thing. It can be my family thing, it can be my job thing, it can be my brain thing. Whatever you want it
to be. It can be completely personal to you. But you need to wake up every morning for the next seven days to stare at yourself in the mirror and say one nice thing to yourself to start your day. And that's all I want you to do for now.