There’s a very specific way you move, sit, and talk.
And all of it is a set of habits you can change.
That’s why there are voice coaches.
Posture specialists.
Movement coaches of every kind, especially for actors and people whose image matters.
Nothing about how you show up is fixed.
And neither is how you think.
At the coaching course I’m attending, yesterday we practiced techniques that help people reprogram their thinking, their mindset so that emotions and actions downstream work better for their lives.
The first step is always the same.
Whether it’s voice coaching, posture coaching, or mindset coaching:
you create awareness of what you’re doing, when, and how.
You need to know what you’re working with before trying to change it.
Voice coaches ask you to record yourself speaking.
Posture coaches ask you to film yourself.
I give my clients a thought audit exercise, to capture unhelpful thinking patterns in real time as they show up.
Before a change, there has to be awareness of what it is there to change.
Only then can you work on each piece, one rep at a time, replacing the old pattern with a better one.
If you speak too softly and need more impact - you practice speaking with more volume for a week.
If you speak too fast - you practice slowing down.
If you use too many filler words - you practice pauses.
Thinking is no different.
The only issue?
Nobody but you can hear it.
So write it down.
Every time you catch a thought you don’t like. This is what I call Thought Audit.
If you constantly worry, practice shifting your focus to what you can control, and act there.
If your mind keeps replaying everything that went wrong (or might), ask:
What did this give me? What did I learn? What insight is here? What can go right and good?
If self-doubt shows up on repeat, counter it with evidence - hard things you’ve already done.
And just like with any serious coaching…
You don’t do this once.
You don’t keep it all in your head.
You don’t “hope it sticks.”
You train.
You track your workouts.
You track the reps.
The weight.
The time.
The sets.
And you reflect - daily, weekly, monthly.
At our coaching study session, we all admitted the same thing:
we need to stop treating our thoughts like some magical kingdom we can’t reach...
…and start treating them like a gym💪
Notice what needs work.
Design the program.
Do the reps.
Track.
Adjust.
Repeat.
No magic required.
Over to you, dear reader, have you scheduled your mindset gym sessions yet?
