Talking to Myself

There are a lot of things my father didn't tell me. Some of the things he did tell me were ambiguous or wrong. Still, I am glad he told me what he did. Because it was him who told me those things, I tended to think about them.
Once, when I was quite young, he told me, perhaps in response to a question of mine about a man talking to himself on the street, "It's okay to talk to yourself; it's even okay to answer yourself; but if you find yourself saying, 'Huh?' or 'What did you say?' look out."
We do sometimes say something 'out loud' to ourselves. A bit more often we might whisper to our self or just move our lips as in some silent reading. Most often we think our words. We seldom say, "What did you say?" Perhaps we should.
It is my experience that we do listen to our self.

Another thing my father told me is that, "A thing worth doing, is worth doing well.? I continue to learn that listening to myself well is important. Listening to myself a bit better is beginning to teach me how important it is to talk to myself well.
My honest attempts to try to say to myself things that are unambiguously true, seem to be paying off in increased sanity and happiness. I don't think I have been able to tell myself a perfect truth; but honestly trying to tell myself the truth seems to be paying benefits. Speaking more and more honestly with myself appears to be helping me to more effectively cooperate with the realities of man, God, the cosmos. The truth sets me free and adds to my power to use that freedom well.
An old aunt of mine told me, "It's not what you do, but the way how you do it."
How do you talk to yourself?