The Mental Noise

• We have a hard time with compliments or seeing the good in what we do because of what we have going on in our minds
• The mental noise that is always with us
• Every man struggles with the voices in his head
• We all have the battle of negative vs positive self talk
• What we want to do as men is focus our minds on a few key areas so we control the mental noise
• 3 things you can do to control the mental noise

1. Decide Who Gets the Microphone
2. Decide What to Do With Old Recordings
3. Start Playing a New Soundtrack

• Who controls the microphone in your head? You do.
• As men we have to step up and decide what microphone we are listening to
• Who gets the power to speak into our life?
• If you don't decide you will go from voice to voice and never really figure who YOU are
• You need to build a foundation in your head and that starts with you deciding who you are and who you want to be
• Negative talk will affect you
• Negative influences will affect you
• You must take that authority as a man and work on controlling what thoughts go on in your mind

• There are many other things that can live in your head
• You can have old recordings of things people said to your or did to you
• Abuse - physically, verbally, and so on
• Seeking acceptance from the "cool" kids
• Seeking affirmation from an absent father
• Seeking purpose in pleasure
• These old recordings have to be erased and replaced with a real purpose

• As a man, you have to decide what will play in your head
• You have to purposeful about what plays in your head
• Understand that it takes time and things won't change overnight
• You control the soundtrack in your head
• You can decide the thoughts that rule in your head