#30 You Are Amazing: Leveraging Self-Belief for Productivity
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[00:00:00] Hello, welcome to the Productivity Genius Podcast. I'm your host, Kelly Fifield, and this week I'm actually giving you a to do, which of course isn't very like me because I don't like to add things to your to do list, but honestly, it's not going to add anything to your to do list. It's actually just going to take something that you're already doing and supercharge it so that it helps you become more productive in the future.
Already, probably multiple times per day, you're greeting people and there's that classic. How you doing? Hey, how you doing? Right? It's a very common way for us to greet each other.
What I'm suggesting here is that we leverage those interactions and actually use it to build a foundation
that's going to make it easier for us to be more productive. One of the biggest challenges to becoming really productive
and organized is self doubt,
is losing faith or belief in our abilities, judging ourselves.
So the more opportunities we can take [00:01:00] to acknowledge our
amazingness, the easier it's going to be
to show up each day and do the work that's required to change ourselves to evolve into people
who are wildly productive.
Most of us are very well practiced in saying negative things to ourselves. Unfortunately, it's just something that our brains naturally do. If you've read any of Dr. Amen's work, he calls them ANTS, automatic negative thoughts. I'm sure you have a bunch of them. We all do.
And so those thoughts naturally get lots of air time. So we want to counteract that as much as we can, so that when the going gets tough, and we're trying to grow into this new version of ourselves, and we're trying to overcome, some of the habits that we've repeated for our whole lifetime.
We want to have this evidence that we're going to have our own back, that we believe in ourselves. And so that's what I'm inviting you to consider using this little
adjustment to your greetings.
Now you want to pick something that [00:02:00] seems true to you. You don't want to repeat something over and over again. Like. Affirmations can actually work against you if you say something that you don't really believe.
Like for example, let's say, not as you're greeting, but let's just say you decided to repeat every day, I'm great at time management, but you actually believe you're terrible at it. If you were to repeat every day, I'm great at time management. It's probably actually going to reinforce the fact that you currently don't believe you are good at it.
Because what's going to happen, you're going to say, I'm great at time management. And then your brain's going to be like, no, you aren't. Here's all the ways you're terrible at it. So you're going to get in this little bit of an argument in your brain. So when you choose this response that you're going to have, when someone says, how are you doing?
You want it to be something that you believe so that you're reinforcing this great belief you have about yourself. And I'm suggesting you use, I'm amazing
and it's okay, everyone's going to think that you're just commenting on how your day is going. You know, you're actually repeating a belief about yourself. And I would count that as a task [00:03:00] done. Each time it happens, I would say, Oh, checking that off my list once again, look at me having my own back, being kind to myself. Reinforcing the fact that I am amazing. Because you are, right? If I'm saying you're amazing and you're not believing you're amazing, there's so much evidence to show that you're amazing.
First of all, you didn't make you, right? That creator makes amazing things. You're also amazing because you're literally the same exact human in those baby pictures. You ever look at your baby pictures?
How cute were you? Would you tell little toddler you that you're not amazing? Could you look at that little adorable toddler and say meh? You're not so great. Of course you wouldn't and that little toddler is you you're just bigger now.
You're also amazing because you've done so many hard things in your life. You've overcome so many obstacles, small and big, from things like getting on a school bus the first time, to applying for jobs,
to doing really difficult things in relationships. You've done so many incredible things.
And you have phenomenal taste in [00:04:00] podcasts, so of course you're amazing.
If saying I'm amazing doesn't work for you, think of something else that might work better. I'm not saying you have to use that statement alone, but if you're not believing you're amazing, please reach out to me so we can discuss this because you absolutely are. Every human being is.
And we all make mistakes. But we're always doing the best we can with the thinking we have available to us at the time.
So however many arguments you have against yourself for why maybe you're not amazing, I'll double the ones in favor of you being amazing. And you can too.
So next time someone greets you and asks you how you're doing, I'd love for you to respond, "I'm amazing."
Then take a moment to enjoy how that feels and to be proud of yourself for accomplishing that little task.
Hearing yourself, repeatedly telling yourself that you believe you're amazing is an excellent way to foster an amazing relationship with yourself.
When you are ready to take this productivity game to the [00:05:00] next level, I have a program I'm creating for you, and you can get on the wait list by going to the link in the show notes.
Now let's try it one time before I sign off with you. How are you doing? You are amazing. I hope you have an amazing week.
