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What You Say to Yourself Is What You Believe There is an on old cliché, which states, “Actions speak louder than words, and words will never hurt me.” The untold truth about this saying is that while actions do speak loudly, words do speak, and they have the capacity to hurt. Whether they are spoken loudly or softly, they speak, and they speak with such far-reaching implications. Here’s my story. At the tender age of 7 or 8, I received a toy organ and was completely mesmerized by the sounds that flowed through it. Upon playing “Beautiful Dreamer using the coded-note methodology, almost instantly something erupted in me that said, “I want to play the songs that I sing.” As I continued to learn other songs, I felt that I was held captive to following the code that someone else laid out for me to play various tunes. That is when I began to compensate for what I could not see and play to playing what I could hear and play. Both techniques were great until I was confronted by the realization that I had not mastered either technique to a level of inner acceptance. When situations required my knowing how to read sheet music and play, I could only go so far. And, when situations required me to enhance a song by what I could hear and do naturally, I could not do so because I lacked certain basic theory behind what I was able to do naturally. Although others benefited from and enjoyed my playing the piano, what I could not do hindered what I believed I could ever do. That is the day when the words I spoke to myself began to control next steps in my life. The problem was not that I did not have the wherewithal to learn music theory—the problem began in the very first moment I said to myself, “I cannot read those little black and white dots.” The problem was not the result of mental incapacity to learn. It was buying into the negative conclusion of my mind. The truth is this—what you say to yourself is what you believe. And, what you say to yourself will supersede what others say to you if you deliberately choose not to let it take root in your life. To circumvent such a self-inflicted wound, consider the following: 1.Visualize this…words are like containers. They carry whatever you put inside of them. If they form a positive message, that is what they will carry and deliver. If they form a negative message, that is what they will carry and deliver. 2.Choose right now (before they come) what your response will be. Choose right now to disallow negative words to take root in your thought process. Choose right now that when positive words come your way, you will readily accept and nurture them to maturity. 3.Continue to nurture the positive words that were sent to you until what you seek after is tangibly in your hand. 4.To maintain that which you will have received, continue to feed your faith. By default, it will starve your doubts. Jackie Golden’s expertise is motivating others to remain loyal to becoming who they were destined to be. She is fully persuaded that if you take Step 1, the subsequent steps will reveal themselves to you. If you do not want to meet your goal, never take Step 1—it will work every time. She enjoys allowing others to closely observe her journeys through life as she herself finally adjusted her schedule to accommodate pursuit of her own passions. To learn more about her endeavors and participate in her latest journey, please, visit http://www.playpiano-now.com. Jackie’s new-found goal for life is to strike a balance between ministry, daily living, and business success. She takes great pride in helping people and connecting them to resources to help them reach their goals.
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