Your Thoughts: For Continuous Progress, Celebrate Improvements
July 21st, 2008
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Are you aware of all the talking in your head? When something happens, the ingrained attitude quickly comes up and tells you how bad things are. You may not even notice yourself speaking. When someone insults you, you know that it’s silly to get angry and act defensively, it just makes them angrier. While you know you can change your thoughts right now, you can’t permanently change them in an instant.
Don’t let this get you down. You are on the right track! Habits are hard to break, but it’s well worth it.
To keep motivated, feel good about any progress. Noticing is the first step. As you pay more attention, and notice the negative thoughts as they happen, you will find it easier and easier. Sometimes, the negativity might amuse you - laugh! Just paying attention and measuring changes the thoughts. It will become easier and easier to notice and interrupt with positive thoughts. Feel yourself moving one small step forward. Tiny steps will take you very far over the weeks, months, and years.
If you make a mistake - as I often do - don’t focus on how horrible your mistake is. Instead, focus on preventing it from happening again. Analyze why you may have failed. Figure out how to handle it differently next time. Focus on the solution. You can visualize the same situation happening again, but responding how you want to respond. That should make it easier the next time.
This post is part of a 5 post series about how your thoughts affect your world. View: one, two, three, four, five.
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