Have you seen the Zillow commercial with the woman looking to buy a home talking to the multiple versions of herself? It ran frequently during the Olympics. The ad is named “Susan’s” and you can see the company name in the background, Susan & Susan. What a great depiction of the voices we all have in our heads. Susan has her negative me and her stressed me. She also has a helpful me and a spontaneous me, along with gullible, anti-social, paranoid and stressed versions of herself?
Most of the versions of Susan
depicted in the ad are negative characteristics. That is so realistic! The negative voices in
my head always outnumber the positive ones.
Why is that? In the commercial, all the versions of the Susan’s are
seated at a large conference table. Why
do we let negative me and lazy me even have seats at the table? Unfortunately,
it is hard not to. We seem to gravitate
to the negative version of ourselves.
Our goal should be to fill the table with all the positive me’s! There are plenty to choose from, positive me,
confident me, talented me, respected me, and accomplished me. To name a few. That is who we need to listen
to. Those are the versions of you that you
want at your table.
Don’t invite negative me to
your table!
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