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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
On Purpose with Jay Shetty

4 Things Confident People Tell Themselves Every Day

October 02, 2026 • 32m

Summary

⏱️ 8 min read

Overview

Jay Shetty guides listeners through four powerful mantras designed to reshape negative self-talk and inner dialogue. Drawing on stories ranging from a grandmother's old journal to the invention of Post-it Notes, he offers specific mantras for hopelessness, lack of confidence, missing opportunities, and anxiety about past or future. Each mantra comes with practical exercises to integrate the practice into daily life, emphasizing that transformation comes from choosing which thoughts we rehearse rather than waiting for external circumstances to change.

The Voice Inside Your Head

Jay opens by asking listeners to notice their inner voice - the constant narrator that shapes how we interpret our experiences and ourselves. He explains how this voice often speaks negatively in ways we'd never speak to others, and how its words gradually transform from passing thoughts into what we experience as facts. The episode's purpose is to help listeners intentionally shape this voice through four different mantras designed for different life seasons and challenges.

  • The inner voice narrates experiences so consistently we stop recognizing it as a voice and begin experiencing its words as facts
  • Negative self-talk like 'nothing is ever going to change' sounds like prediction rather than a passing thought
  • We speak to ourselves constantly but have never been intentional about shaping that voice
  • Different mantras serve different seasons - days needing hope, confidence, opportunity, or presence
" Nothing is ever going to change. No longer sounds like a passing thought. It sounds like a prediction. "
" Sometimes the words we struggle to say reveal the place within us that most needs our attention. "

The Power of Mantras

Early in the episode, Jay explains the fundamental mechanism of how mantras work to reshape our thinking. Words we repeat direct our attention, attention influences our choices, choices create self-trust, and trust changes what we believe is possible. He emphasizes that we don't need to believe every word immediately - we only need to become willing to hear ourselves say something new, allowing the practice to gradually shift our inner dialogue.

  • A mantra is a way of consciously choosing the thought we want to practice
  • The chain: repeated words direct attention → attention influences choices → choices create self-trust → trust changes what we believe is possible
  • You don't have to believe every word immediately, only become willing to hear yourself say something new
" The words we repeat direct our attention. Our attention influences our choices. Our choices create self-trust. And that trust slowly changes what we believe is possible for us. "

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