One of the skills I've learned that has benefitted me incredibly is learning to pay attention to how I talk to myself. Basically that just means that I notice my thoughts. When I'm not moving forward toward goals the way I think I should, it's deeply ingrained in me to think things like: "You'll never make it." "You always do this - quit before you're finished." Some part of me thinks that kicking myself will make me a better person. So far it has never, ever worked. When I learned to pay attention to how I talk to myself, I also learned to quickly change my thoughts. I used to believe that my thoughts were just how they were - that there was nothing to do about them. It turns out that no matter what crappy negative thinking I have, I can always choose my second thought to something positive like: "No, that's not true. I have succeeded at a lot of things and I can succeed at this too."
Our automatic thinking is usually uniformly negative and does not deserve to be listened to. Let us learn to think better thoughts!
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