Maybe you find yourself saying the same things about yourself and you don't even know you are doing it. What do those things reveal about your hidden assumptions, and do those assumptions serve you, do they help make you more or less in control of your own destiny? If you want to be the creator or your own life story and the architect of your own health instead of the passive recipient of events and circumstances that shape how you are, then a simple start is to catch yourself saying those little things that sublty disempower, and replace them with different words.