Talking to yourself is fine... know what to say!
What you say to yourself, the stories you tell yourself about life, others, your situation and circumstances influences and impacts your outcomes.
The narrator in your head is constantly labeling and interpreting the events and circumstances in your life.
The conversations it carries on inside takes its cue from those in your life, including parents, teachers, religious figures, peers and anyone else you’ve encountered along the way.
Take a moment and think about some of the things said to you as you were growing up.
Do you find those things, particularly the negative ones, popping up often?
Have you noticed them coming at critical times deterring you from going for those things you seek in life?
John Gilmore