1. Self-Talk First Aid Kit

2. Self-Talk First Aid Kit
Reprogramming or visualizing to
change your self-talk are in-depth,
systematic, disciplined procedures that
take time.

3. Self-Talk First Aid Kit
The Self-Talk First Aid Kit includes
six quick “catching yourself” tools that
are temporary ways to adjust your
self-talk in the moment.

4. Self-Talk First Aid Kit
The Self-Talk First Aid Kit is a
supplement to reprogramming and
visualizing.

5. Switching Channels

6. Switching Channels
Switch channels when you find
yourself focusing too much on the
negative.

7. Switching Channels
Imagine your mind as a TV set and
choose to focus on a more self-
supporting, self-motivating,
constructive channel.

8. Switching Channels
Your mood focus is a personal choice.

9. Reframing

10. Reframing
Take the definition of a particular
situation and reframe it with another
meaning.

11. Reframing
Focus on promise, potential, the
positive and possibilities that motivate
you.

12. Reframing
Choose a meaning that is useful to
you, that motivates you, that works for
you instead of against you.

13. Camera Check

14. Camera Check
Use when you catch yourself slipping
into trash-talk that is “all-or-nothing”
thinking.

15. Camera Check
This kind of exaggerated, globalized,
untrue language causes emotional
upset and de-motivation.

16. Camera Check
Imagine your mind like a camera and
ask yourself, “Would a video camera
see and hear this?”

17. Jumping to Conclusions
Jumping to conclusions is a subset of
this kind of unrealistic thinking.

18. Jumping to Conclusions
Instead of making a mountain out of a
molehill, use the camera check image
to just describe the mountain or the
molehill.

19. Fire Your Critical Parent

20. Fire Your Critical Parent
Your critical parent is the voice in
your mind that puts you down.

21. Fire Your Critical Parent
Avoid beating yourself up, threatening
yourself and name-calling.

22. Fire Your Critical Parent
You do have an “inner child” inside of
yourself that is a vulnerable, fragile
part of yourself.

23. Fire Your Critical Parent
Avoid discouraging and de-motivating
language.

24. Fire Your Critical Parent
Find that kinder and gentler parent
inside of yourself.

25. Stay in the Present

26. Stay in the Present
Focus and be self-motivated.

27. Stay in the Present
Stay in the present when you find
yourself stuck obsessing about the past
or worrying about the future.

28. Stay in the Present
Catch yourself and switch channels to
the present moment, because that’s
where performance excels.

29. Stay in the Present
Peak performance occurs in the
present, not in the future nor in the
past.

30. Stay in the Present
Be aware of the present and believe
that you can change it and then do it.

31. Keep Perspective

32. Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life

33. Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
2. Remembering your blessings

34. Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
2. Remembering your blessings
3. A sense of purpose

35. Keep Perspective
Keep Perspective through:
1. A balanced life
2. Remembering your blessings
3. A sense of purpose
4. A sense of humor

36. Balanced Life
Remember the importance of friends,
family and community.

37. Remember Your Blessings
Remembering your blessings like your
health, a great job and your family
can serve as an instant antidote to a
negative focus.

38. Sense of Purpose
When you’re de-motivated, off track,
off course or feeling down, you can
snap back by remembering your sense
of purpose—your vision, your life
meaning.

39. Sense of Humor
Maintain a healthy sense of humor.

40. Sense of Humor
Laughter enhances the immune
system and increases motivation,
productivity and performance.

41. Where to Start

42. Where to Start
First, take yourself off automatic and
eliminate trash-talking.

43. Where to Start
Secondly, believe you can change your
self-talk.

44. Where to Start
Thirdly, choose specific strategies
from the Self-Talk First Aid Kit.

45. Where to Start
Choose the strategies that work for
you and that you’re comfortable with.

46. Where to Start
Find the strategies that fit you and
that you’re at ease with.

47. Where to Start
Cut yourself some slack. If you blow it,
be patient with yourself.

48. Where to Start
Changing your self-talk isn’t an
overnight affair. It takes time.

49. Self-Talk First Aid Kit