It sounds weird, but it keeps me grounded, realistic, and objective for the most part.
“Do you really want to rage? Risk a heart attack 20 years from now instead of just cleaning it up and moving on?”
“You gotta stop thinking about ‘the future,’ you barely know her, dawg”
“Why are you interrupting your studies to post this on hexbear.net?”
“Now you’re being self-referential. That’s not very funny.”
I always talk to myself in second person (“we”)
“We’ve got to pull our shit together”