People are afraid of success. The chances are that you may be too. Think, why be afraid to move ahead, to be the person everybody wants to be. This is where self-talk comes in to play. Happy self-talk is a tool to motivate yourself. I call it, self motivation, talk to yourself to bring about better times. By motivating yourself, you will build higher self esteem and stronger self confidence within yourself. Way to go.

I started talking to myself as a teenager not because I had no friends, but to create a better more secure me. Up to the age of 21 people were not aware that I could speak. Going back even further I actually said absolutely nothing until the age of three. My mother took me around to various doctors to find why I never spoke. At some point one of the many doctors simply asked an easy question."How does he get anything.?" You see I was a skinny child, but well fed. The doctor could tell that my parents took care of me. My mother's answer was Kenny points and gives some type of grunt and we give it to him. People, this is what is being spoiled, no need to talk. In three days I was speaking in full sentences when nothing was coming that I wanted. This kind of went on until that magic age of 21.I never started a conversation and one word answers if they were directed to me.

Now at that magic age I was working for my father with employees to direct and still said nothing. Well I will come back to that story later, maybe in another article. The point I am desperately attempting to make, is that you are going nowhere unless you speak. To start speaking to yourself, self-talk, is a fantastic way to kick yourself in the you know what to get yourself onto the right path of success.

Fear of success is going to be a thing of the past for you. Talk to yourself, even argue with yourself, but start using self-talk to build your self confidence. Don't be like me as a three year old and not talk. Family may get things for you, but no one else will.

Happy self-talk is the great way to teach yourself about you. Once you learn your faults and failures you build on them to be that successful person.

Kenneth Friedberg has written several articles on motivation, self-talk, confidence, and self esteem. Please read the blog on learn to be positive. Through the blog posts you will learn how to be a more successful person using self-talk. http://learntobepositiveblog.wordpress.com