Choose your words wisely. More often than not, our negative self talk is so unconscious we don't recognise ourselves doing it over and over again.
The good thing is it can be as simple as changing a single letter in a word to change your thought patterns, your attitude and your behaviour.
Let's say you know you need to get out and move more, to exercise and be more fit. Are you going to take time, or are you going to make time? There's a difference.
When you tell yourself you have to take time, you're adding stress. You already get up, feed the kids (and/or the pets), rush to get yourself ready for work, get to work and eat at your desk to get everything done, stay back late, forgot to defrost something for dinner so now you also have to go to the supermarket on the way home, then there's dinner, dishes, clothes washing, your mum called.....aaarrrgh! Like you can take any time to do something else! Something's got to give!
What if you make time? Saying you're going to make time is a lot less pressure. When you make time, you feel more in control of all the things you need to get done. You're not taking time, implying something else has to be sacrificed.
You're making time, meaning you can plan and adjust in a way that is not an extra inconvenience, but rather allows you to have the 'me time' to focus on yourself without the anxiety of having to put something else off.
So watch what you say to yourself.
Don't take time anymore.
Make time to add some exercise or movement into your day and see the difference.
