I like to think of myself as someone who knows where I’m going and doesn’t let old habits and reactions get in my way. But the more I think about it, there are certain things that seem to run through my brain on autopilot. And, for the most part, these thoughts are very limiting.

I’m on a quest to eliminate those negative, limiting thoughts.

In other words, it wouldn’t be a problem if “Wow, you’re great – you can accomplish anything” ran through your brain 10 times a day. But if the memory of your mother scolding you and the words “I can’t believe you did something so stupid!” are running through your head on a constant basis, there’s cause for concern.

I couldn’t find much online about changing your thoughts, but I did find an excellent article about changing your habits at Scott Young’s blog “Get More From Life”.

It seems to me that we can take the same habit changing steps and apply them to changing thoughts. At least that’s what I’m going to try.

Here are the 4 steps:

• Analyze
• Form a Strategy
• Prepare
• Act

This helped give me some good ideas about what I can do to “burn” some new and positive images into my brain.

You can read Scott Young’s article here:

http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/04/03/how-to-change-a-habit/