Below are 15 tips that can be a LIFE-CHANGER if you want them to be. Remember, it is NOT about always being perfect or positive. It IS about catching yourself when you find you’re in one of these “modes” of thinking. You have the choice to “give it up” at any moment and to be in communication with the people in your life. The more we can let go of what’s bothering us, the more power we can have in life to pursue what matters to us (YOU HAVE THE POWER — In my best HE-MAN voice).
- BEING RIGHT: You are continually on trial to prove that your opinions and actions are correct. Being wrong is unthinkable and you will go to any length to demonstrate your rightness.
- BLAMING: You hold other people responsible for your pain, or take the other tack and blame yourself for every problem or reversal.
- SHOULD: You have a list of ironclad rules about how you and other people should act. People who break the rules anger you and you feel guilty if you violate the rules.
- PERSONALIZATION: Thinking that everything people do or say is some kind of reaction to you. You also compare yourself to others, trying to determine who’s smarter, better looking, etc.
- FILTERING: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.
- POLARIZED THINKING: Things are black or white, good or bad. You have to be perfect or you’re a failure. There is no middle ground.
- OVER-GENERALIZATION: You come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or piece of evidence. If something bad happens once you expect it to happen over and over again.
- MIND READING: Without their saying so, you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to divine know how people are feeling toward you.
- CATASTROPHIZING: You expect disaster. You notice or hear about a problem and start “what if’s”. What if tragedy strikes? What if it happens to you?”
- CONTROL FALLACIES: If you feel externally controlled, you see yourself as helpless, a victim of fate. The fallacy of internal control has you responsible for the pain and happiness of everyone around you.
- FALLACY OF FAIRNESS: You feel resentful because you think you know what’s fair but other people won’t agree with you.
- EMOTIONAL REASONING: You believe that what you feel must be true-automatically. If you feel stupid and boring, then you must be stupid and boring.
- FALLACY OF CHANGE: You expect that other people will change to suit you if you just pressure or cajole them enough. You need to change people because your hope for happiness seem to depend entirely on them.
- GLOBAL LABELING: You generalize one or two qualities into a negative global judgment.
- HEAVEN’S REWARD FALLACY: You expect all your sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if there were someone keeping score. You feel better when the reward doesn’t come.
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