Donna Ashworth

Yeah.

Well, she said to me that, first of all, she said, your brain, so if you say to your brain, I'm not nervous, I'm not nervous, I'm not nervous, your brain goes nervous, nervous.

It only hears, you know, the main point of that sentence.

So you've got your language and your thoughts are really powerful.

Now, I already knew that because I had read all of these books, but I'd forgotten.

Hmm.

And I think I'd had children, I'd got so wrapped up in life and just working and running fast on that treadmill and not looking around me that I suddenly went, of course, the language that you use to yourself is really, really important when you're public speaking.

Or you would say, I am loving this.

This is so joyful.

And even though it feels fake at first, it soon fits you like a new skin if you say it over and over.

You're just making neural pathways.

And if you stop walking the old neural pathways, they grow over like nature will cover it up again with flowers and grass.

You don't go down that.

I'm a terrible person.

I can't do anything new.

You make new ones, which is I'm open to new things.

I'm flexible.

I'm adaptive.

I seek the joy.

And oh my goodness, it works.