I was watching an episode of The Twilight Zone the other night, called “Mr.Motivation” (it’s on YouTube if you want to check it out.)

This episode was from the 2002 revival of the series (the original series from the early 1960’s is better by the way, and so is the 1985 one, but I think they’re all fun to watch …)

Anyways, the main character – Charlie Stickney – works at a pharmaceutical company where he’s bullied by his boss Rick (played by Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore … love that movie!)

As a birthday gift, Charlie gets a bobblehead called “Mr.Motivation”, and he puts it on the desk inside his cubicle.

Whenever he pushes it throughout the day, it says a positive affirmation. Mr. Motivation starts with sayings like:

“You’re the man!”

“If you can’t do it, nobody can!”

“Today’s the day!”

But as the episode progresses, Charlie learns that the bobblehead is alive, and it isn’t always very motivating. Mr.Motivation starts verbally running him down:

“Wipe that stupid smile off your face!”

“You like being a doormat, don’t you?”

“You like the feeling of Rick wiping his feet on ya!”

And so on …

Unfortunately, Mr.Motivation’s dialogue is a lot like people’s inner voices.

They read or watch something motivational, they feel good and repeat positive affirmations for awhile …

But as time goes on, the internal voice changes to a negative one. And If we aren’t careful, we can become our own Mr.Motivation bobbleheads.

Be careful of what you say to yourself throughout the day. Odds are you don’t even realize the negative chatter that’s floating around in your head, and it can be doing a lot of damage.