I went over to my friend’s birthday party tonight, and one of the party-goers brought their 7 year old daughter.  The little girl was playing with the NERF multi-ammo suction gun, when the ammunition ran out.  She pointed the gun on herself, trying to look through the barrel to see if there was anymore ammo.  All the adults told her to not point the gun at herself, no matter if it were real or not.

How often do we metaphorically point the gun on ourselves?  Things that we say out of our mouths about ourselves that we don’t mean tend to be the crack in the facade that shows what is really underlining out behavior.

The fact is, you don’t point the gun on yourself, and you surely don’t pull the trigger.  As in the old movie classic “A Christmas Story”, Ralphie’s parents refused to get him a BB gun, saying he’d shoot his eye out, and (SPOILER ALERT) when he does get the gun, he practically did shoot his eye out!

What I’m saying is we tend to be careless about how we talk about ourselves, and whether if it’s good or bad, we will eventually become what we talk about.  The fact is self talk does effect your subconscious, and the more negative talk you feed it, the more you will live it.  It also works in reverse.  The more positive talk you give yourself (and this includes others), the more confident you will become.  Our world is colored by how we view it, not how it actually is, because that is subject to interpretation.

So please, if your self talk had the kind of ammunition that can take you down like a real gun would, please stop pointing it at yourself, or better yet, don’t point it at anyone’s direction at all.  Taking down others takes you down as well.