Mastering Self-Talk

The way you speak to yourself often decides how you lead under pressure.

Mastering Self-Talk is a collection of short essays for leaders who want to strengthen confidence, clarity, and self-trust — especially when things get hard.

All are based on my experience coaching real leaders like you.

Explore the series:

• 3 strategies to improve self-talk

• Introduction to inner critics

• Questions to cultivate your wiser self

• How your internal state colours [almost] everything you perceive

• Your mindset is not negative — it’s in protection mode

• Notice your black-or-white thinking

• It’s ok to be the weakest at the gym

• When confidence slips into arrogance

• Rational vs emotional truth, or when a pros and cons list won’t work

• “Partnerships don’t work” — how our beliefs shape our realities

• You’re not indecisive — you’re misusing your decision muscle

• Claiming responsibility, 30-70% of the time

• “Why did I freeze in a board meeting?” and “How do I influence the sharks?”

• Think? Feel? Believe? Do an internal alignment check

• Don’t get rid of your ego — expand it instead

• I was not ignored for 13 years — I was left alone to do my work

• Hitting piano keys harder won’t make it sound better, only louder

• How to recover after a metaphoric car crash

• Why you’re not moving towards your goals

• The story of a bicycle that won prizes and got promoted, but then doubt arrived

• Befriending your inner critic: a practical guide