Is a Compliment Painful?

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Your belief and your vision ABOUT YOURSELF will truly dictate your future.
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This week, I was talking to someone about themselves and they were really just tearing themselves down, beating themselves up and just ripping themselves apart.
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“I’m stupid.” 
“I don’t know what I’m doing.” 
“I could never do this.”
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Every statement that came out of my friends mouth was just SO negative and SO debilitating and SO demeaning to themselves.
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And as I was talking to them, I just said,
“You know what? STOP.”
“That’s IT.”
“I want to hear three GOOD things about yourself. And you aren’t talking ANYMORE until you come up with three good things.”
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This person legitimately sat there and could not come up with ANYTHING butcompliment negative. They were so deep in their pity party that they couldn’t see the light or think of ANY kind of compliment, even just a real basic one. I was realizing the power of our own thoughts and our own beliefs about ourselves.
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It IS crazy how I’ve always read that “what you believe, you become”, and how important your thoughts are to your existence and to your life, but this person was literally living it out in front of me.
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The Exercise

So, I did an exercise on my Facebook page: www.fb.com/jessicabowsernelson.
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I asked for everyone to tell me 3 good things about themselves. I found it so insightful.
Of course, I know most of my facebook friends and it was really funny because one friend…you know, I said name three things, well, the first thing they named had like 8 things in them.
“I’m loving. I’m compassionate. I’m caring. I’m motivated…..”
That was just number ONE! Hahaha!
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And ANOTHER friend actually said that they really struggled coming up with three things but their list of something negative or something NOT GOOD about themselves was really quick coming to their memory or coming to their mind and it showed them that they weren’t really thinking of themselves in a good light.
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My challenge to you today is to comment below. 
I want to hear 3 good things about you (aka a compliment). 
And if you don’t have 3 things that come to mind, then that shows you an area that you really need to work on.
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WHO you are and WHAT you believe about yourself is what you put out to others.
And it’s what they’re going to end up believing about you.
So if you can’t find anything positive or good about yourself, that’s going to effect every single area of your life.
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And I’m not just saying fake it til you make it. Some of you are like, BUT, I legitimately DON’T think that about myself.
But what I will say, is what you focus on, you become.
And literally our thoughts can be self fulfilling prophecies.
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complimentYou have to focus on what you are believing about yourself because that is truly who you will become.
I love the saying that says, “You’ve got to see it before you see it or you’ll never see it.”
So, it DOES matter how you see yourself, how you envision your self, your life, your future and who you are.
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You can legitimately change your outcome, change your path, change your FUTURE by changing your thoughts.
So if you have to speak life to yourself…..and what does that mean “speak life to yourself”?
That means start saying, “You know what, I’m an amazing wife! I’m a fantastic friend! I’m a caring daughter!”
And then start aligning your activities to those things. It doesn’t matter where you are now, or where you’ve come from or what you’ve been through, what matters is what you’re doing today to make a difference in your life.
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So whatever you’re struggling with thinking you’re NOT, focus on those activities to BECOME THAT. And it truly will change everything.
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Start with the exercise. Comment below. Tell me 3 things you are good at…tell me 3 good things about you. And depending on how easily you come up with those things, think about it this week. Put it into action. Put it into play. Change your thinking by changing your self talk. And if you have to, write it down. If you can’t even come up with the positive self talk, message me. Shoot me what you’re struggling with and I’ll give you a sentence that you can tell yourself and some activities that can align your life to the person you want to be because you’re just not there yet.
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I just want you know there’s HOPE.
Change is POSSIBLE.
And what you think IS really cool because you CAN change your future.
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Hopefully that helped somebody today and I’m excited to see the 3 good things about you. Comment below.
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If you need help on your health and fitness journey…a lot of these videos are about motivation and inspiration, but I help people lose weight, gain energy, gain their life back and literally get fit from the inside out every day. Shoot me a message at jessica@jessicabowsernelson.com and I will email you back personally and help you get started on a journey to the best you.
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Comment below with a compliment for you! I’m going to be reading them!
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Digging Deeper,
Jessica Bowser Nelson
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Comments (2)

  1. Sarah Green (reply)

    03/12/2015 at 5:07 pm

    Loyal, persistent, inspiring( I think).

    1. Jessica Bowser Nelson (reply)

      03/18/2015 at 7:06 am

      Love it!!! All of it but the “I think”. 😉

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