Thursday, March 08, 2007

Least Helpful Confidence Building Tip Ever

From 7 Helpful Tips To Immediately Increase Your Confidence
by Kent Sayre

7.) Disarm the nagging, negative internal voice. That negative internal voice can keep anyone stopped. To disarm the internal voice, imagine a volume control and lower the volume. Or how about changing the internal voice to Mickey Mouse? Do you think you could take Mickey Mouse seriously if he were criticizing you? Change the voice to a clown voice. The point is to disarm the voice by altering the way it nags at you. If I hear my own voice nagging me, it stops me. If I hear a clown voice, I laugh and continue onward.

Maybe this is just me, but if a clown voice in my head starts telling me to anything, it will involve a clock tower, a high powered rifle, and a hand drawn diagram for suicide-by-cop

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