An integral part of developing healthy self-esteem are the values that are part of positive self-esteem itself – values such as taking personal responsibility for yourself, showing genuine compassion for others, making good choices, exercising self-discipline, using manners, being mindful, and having balance in all things. - Shad Helmstetter
If enough of your programs are negative, your self-talk will also be negative. This is because your present self-talk is the result of the programs you already have that are the strongest. The rule is: Negative programs equal negative self-talk. - Shad Helmstetter
How successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied directly to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind. - Shad Helmstetter
Leading behavioral researchers have told us that as much as seventy-seven percent of everything we think is negative, counterproductive, and works against us. At the same time, medical researchers have said that as much as seventy-five percent of all illnesses are self-induced. It’s no wonder. - Shad Helmstetter
A lot of people have lived richer lives because someone who cared took the time to listen. - Shad Helmstetter
All too often, the words we have said to ourselves when things went wrong contributed to the problem – instead of making it better or helping us solve it. - Shad Helmstetter
As long as you and I allow others to program us in a way that fits their choosing, we are, without a doubt, out of control, captive to the whims of some unknown destiny, not quite recognizing that what hangs in the balance is the fulfillment of our own futures. - Shad Helmstetter
Belief does not require something to be true. It only requires us to believe that it’s true! That’s powerful stuff! That means most of what reality is, to each of us, is based on what we have come to believe – whether it’s true or not! - Shad Helmstetter
Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have. - Shad Helmstetter
How about being your own motivator? How about taking charge and putting yourself back in control? You can, just by learning that all true motivation – the only kind that lasts, the only kind you can count on – is internal motivation. - Shad Helmstetter
How we 'feel' – tired or energetic, listless or enthusiastic – is mental and chemical; it is physiological. - Shad Helmstetter
I am in control of myself in every way—at all times and in all situations. Each time I sit down to eat, I reaffirm my determination to achieve my goal. - Shad Helmstetter
I can do anything I believe I can do! I’ve got it, and every day I get more of it. I have talent, skills, and ability. I set goals and I reach them. I know what I want out of life. I go after it and I get it. - Shad Helmstetter
I do not agree with those who tell us that all problems are "opportunities." Some problems represent potential opportunities, but not all of them. If a man with a gun in his hand were to walk in at this moment and point the gun at your head, that is not an opportunity – that is a problem! - Shad Helmstetter
I never blame anyone else for the circumstances of my life. I accept my failings and move past them as easily as I accept the rewards for my victories. - Shad Helmstetter
I never demand perfection of myself, but I expect the very best of what I have to give—and that’s what I get! I never give myself excuses. I get things done on time and in the right way. - Shad Helmstetter
If everything you tell yourself about yourself becomes a directive to your subconscious mind, then anytime you make a statement about yourself that is negative you are directing your subconscious mind to make you become the person you just described – negatively! - Shad Helmstetter
It is your programming that has created your choices in the past. It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future. - Shad Helmstetter
Learning to manage, control, and direct the resources of your mind is the greatest challenge you will ever face. - Shad Helmstetter
Mastering one’s future must surely start with managing one’s 'self'. And if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part of what we call 'life'. - Shad Helmstetter
The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do, if you tell it often enough and strongly enough! - Shad Helmstetter
We are most comfortable with the thoughts we have lived with the most. It makes no difference if those thoughts aren’t the best for us – it’s what we know, it’s what we are most secure in keeping at our side. - Shad Helmstetter
We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programmed to do. The brain simply believes what you tell it the most. And what you tell it about you it will create. It has no choice. - Shad Helmstetter
We can change friends, spouses, jobs, or locations, and we still take the same inner selves along with us – the same internal identities which made us unhappy, helped us, or got us into trouble in the first place. If we take the old images of ourselves with us wherever we go and into what ever we do, how could we expect to do better the next time we try? - Shad Helmstetter
Whatever you put into your mind – in one way or another – is what you will get back out – in one way or another. - Shad Helmstetter
You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe. - Shad Helmstetter
You can be a graduate student of management and never attain the essential skills of managing others if you do not first master the management of yourself… The second essential ingredient of being a good manager is knowing how to develop the qualities and skills of others. - Shad Helmstetter