SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES

Mar 13

Written By: Alberta Totz, JD, LPC

According to some estimates, as many as 80 percent of our thoughts each day are negative. In order to “bury dead yesterdays”, you have to change your inner critic and tune out the negative self-talk. How???

You have to rehearse a different story. Henry Ford was right: “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” For better or for worse, the stories we tell ourselves become self fulfilling prophecies.

Some of the most successful people in the world have had to overcome the biggest giants. Some would argue that they achieved success in spite of those odds, but I would argue the opposite. I think they achieved success because of them. They had to overcome adversity by cultivating compensatory skills. They had to work harder to develop because of their obstacles. However, that work ethic, grit and determination is what catapulted them to success. We don’t get to choose how our story starts, but the ending is up to you.

Alberta Totz, JD, LPC

Alberta Totz, JD, LPC-A is a passionate wife, mother of three, and co-founder of the nonprofit Food as Medicine Awareness, which she established with her daughter to promote alternative health treatments following her daughter’s immune diagnosis. Alberta’s deep interest in helping people is reflected in her work as a licensed attorney and practicing therapist. Alberta has a special interest in psychoanalytic studies and specializes in parent education, ADHD and learning differences, compassion-focused trauma recovery, divorce recovery and premarital couples counseling.

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