We all have them: interior prompts
that chatter on during every waking moment, some of them friendly and
encouraging, others negative, put-down voices that attempt to undermine our
best efforts. “You’re old – you can’t expect to do what you did twenty years ago.” “Working out is too exhausting.” “You might
get injured if you lift weights.” “It’s
too much trouble to prepare a real meal; easier to open a box of cookies.” Sometimes these comments turn into extended
monologues that capture our attention for minutes at a time. Lately I have discovered a technique for
turning off unwanted voices: I say, “Quack,
quack, quack!” If I’m not in a public
place I say it out loud. Then I laugh.
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