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Can I just say that I’m done with New Year’s Resolutions?
I simply repeat too many of them to believe that they do any good.
I’ve decided that I’m more in favor of ongoing encouragement and personal coaching.
The problem is that I don’t always receive ongoing encouragement from others. And personal coaching? Well, personal coaching can certainly be helpful but I figure I’m a person and I’m with me all the time so I maybe I can coach myself.
On today’s podcast, I talk about why it’s important to talk to yourself like you would talk to a friend. Speaking life to yourself with your lips is such a simple concept but many of us don’t do it. We want other people to encourage us and to spur us onward with their words but we don’t take the time to do that for ourselves. But speaking life with your lips is important. Words give information to your head (what you think), your heart (what you feel), and your hands (what you do). While encouragement from friends is important, never underestimate the power of your own words to speak life into you.
Your words matter. In fact the power of life and death is in your tongue. While your words do not replace your actions they certainly can spur you on to action. Your words paint a picture of what’s possible and can give you a push in the direction of your potential. The question is only whether or not you are using your words to get the job done.
In today’s podcast I talk about why words matter, how I’ve struggled with my own words, and how you can speak life to yourself in very simple yet powerful ways. I figure if sports teams need coaches to win, and people use coaches to win at work, why shouldn’t you accept the job of coaching yourself to winning in your life?
While God has given you life, you have the power to activate that life with the choices you make each and every day.
Let one of those choices be to respect the power of words and to use your words wisely. Silence the negative self-talk that tears you down and choose to speak life-giving words that build you up.
Let’s Talk!
- Are you tired of New Year’s Resolutions? Which resolutions have you made over and over again?
- Do you make a habit of using words to build yourself up or to tear yourself down?
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Highlights for Today’s Episode:
- Why words matter
- How I’ve struggled with my own words
- How you can speak life to yourself in very simple yet powerful ways.
==> Quotes from today’s show {Click to tweet}
- Learn to be your own best friend. @chrystalhurst
- The power of life and death is in the tongue. Proverbs 18:21
- Speak your hopes, not your worries. Give voice to your dreams, not your doubts. @valorieburton
- When you use your words wisely, you have the power to stop rogue thoughts from running away with your life. @chrystalhurst
- Speak with hope and expectation about your life. @chrystalhurst
- Don’t kill tomorrow with how you speak about your life today. @chrystalhurst
==>Resources from Today’s Show
- “Speak Different” by Valorie Burton
- Chatbooks (Photos from Instagram)
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I am having a hard time letting go of the past and it makes life miserable. I know it is gone and past but I continue in my mind to bring it back. Help
It’s a daily process of letting go. I’ll talk more about this in the coming weeks.
No in this life time.
Hi Chrystal
Great Podcast today! I’m so encouraged to keep speaking the right words to myself. And I appreciate the advice about focusing on one area at a time. Thanks again! Have a Blessed Week!
Vanessa! Thanks for listening! One area at a time is the key!
This word is confirmation of what I have been hearing from God as I pleaded with Him for a way forward; a way out of this heaviness and self doubt concerning my own capability for change. My internal self criticism is crippling me. I will be kinder to myself, the way I am to others.
You can do it. One word at a time…
This was a great podcast. I am blessed to hear it. Running to the bathroom now to speak life! 🙂
Yea!
Hi Chrystal,
This podcast is such a blessing and a confirmation for what I have been experiencing lately! Words and thoughts do have power! Thank you so much Woman of God!
Thanks for sharing. This message spoke to my heart!
I have always been my own worst self-critic. Thank you for the enlightenment of how self talk can lead to forgiving myself and saying I’m unique and I’m okay. I am blessed to have found my first podcast with you. I look forward to further coaching from you and from Above.
I have lots of practice being my own worst critic too. You are unique and you are okay! Glad you found your way to my podcast 🙂
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Even Apostle Paul said,
” I think myself happy.”
Thanks Jesus and Chrystal
Thanks Chrystal??? I needed to hear this message…Im thankful for you to be able to speak to me
Hi – I leave commentary, not comments! This is to extend on a note left on a different chronicle podcast response regarding ketogenic way of eating (high protein, very low carb/no carb). I’ll give more info about my journey with it it because maybe it is something for you to consider for yourself? It has been so much easier than I could have ever imagined.
I have always had terrible eating habits but for a long time was active enough that it didn’t affect me too much. Eventually, I did get fat, though, and then after experiencing depression/anxiety, got more fat more quickly–nearly 220 lbs on a 5’3″ frame and I am now 46 years old. Less than a year ago I decided to approach my food issue as an emotional issue rather than a food choice or moderation issue. This involved journaling even the craziest thoughts and terrible thoughts that I had and praying over what I knew I could for healing of root issues and discipline, etc. With food, I had heard of carb addiction and for me that fit the description of how I managed certain foods. It all plays together w/emotional health, self comfort, not telling yourself no because you don’t have to, etc. In the past I had tried different diet plans related to only watching food choices and always gave up even when as a part of a Weight Watchers support group. My mindset about that now is it has to come from inside yourself, and cheerleaders don’t know what you need inside; however, I am an introvert and don’t get fed as much emotionally from being with people so maybe that contributes. I dunno. Anyhow….
Last year I was doing well for a month or so of telling myself “this is enough–that is a healthy amount of food” while tracking calories. This I did with intermittent fasting to limit the time I ate but didn’t alter what I chose to eat at first until I hit what a normal calorie count was for the day. Then I started changing some things, still tracking everything, and telling myself what is healthy. However, the tracking wasn’t going to last long-term even though I was doing well. I still found myself hungry and even with fruit I started wanting more sweets-typically craving highly processed sweets. Eating should not be that complicated or stressful in meeting the body’s basic needs.
Trying keto after some research I figured at worst I would still be fat–no real harm done– if it proved too difficult to stay with. It has been remarkably easy. When I get a bit more carbs that lead to craving more, I journal more and give myself grace, growing in the process of deciding to choose protein that is more filling. I will exercise more to burn off the carbs more quickly to get back to ketosis state (fat burning) so I will not crave more. I approach my body and the journaling with the mindset that God created me and allowed what He has to create what He planned for me for this point in time. He called what He created good. I agree with Him that what He created and decided to do with me is good and beautiful even if I don’t like (list all of the crap). Tremendous healing takes place with that mindset and it helps me to keep my food choices simple and opting against sugar substitutes even if low carb because they will create cravings. (I see ham and bacon as keto candy, BTW, as they have a naturally sweet flavor). It only took 1-2 weeks to get my body adapted to burning fat first for fuel because intermittent fasting puts you into this state after over 12 hours no matter what you have been eating, and cravings for processed carbs was miraculously diminished.
I don’t have an exercise regimen other than one just started for an upcoming local race, but generally now I do have a lot of energy and get moving so as to not go nuts not moving with pent up energy. I am starting to think of exercise goals (full marathon training perhaps within a year, working on reducing my per mile run/jog time) With passive, exercise how I feel keto eating, I have lost over 45 lbs with opting for protein rich, low processing, low/no carb natural foods. I don’t have a goal date to reach a certain weight. My focus is developing the mindset of choosing against foods that create instability or cravings for more of what doesn’t feed the best things in my body and paying attention to what is going on in my head–what is mattering to me in my thoughts. It kind of leads to a similar deciding against related to what I pay attention to that way, as well-kind of like what is acting like a processed carb not intended to benefit me in my head vs. what to pay attention to and get to the root of.
The weight loss is through calorie deficit as with any eating plan; however, I do not feel restricted (and I used to binge on processed sugary crap pretty regularly–gross binge, not the cutesie get the girls together for a fun night and not care. I would be alone and screw it all be gross shove it in the gullet in minutes kind of binging-never purged, just felt hungover next day without processing anything emotionally about it). In fact, natural food tastes better to me and high protein keeps me satiated. It feeds the gratitude for how our bodies are made. We aren’t made for the processed sugary crap or for a lot of sugar. A lot of processed foods are made to create addiction. Keto also makes sticking with a timeframe for eating much easier, though I am not militant with my eating timeframe.
Ketogenic eating lifestyle is what I call my other religion. It has been less than a year but I can’t imagine going off of this anytime soon. It has proven too beneficial. I’m rooting for you whatever way you do things. Will you be training for another distance race sometime soon?