Negativity Review - Identifier

You can’t prevent all negative thoughts from coming into your mind, but you can keep yourself from hanging on to them. There are some tactics that help you get rid of any negative attitudes you might have. They are simple in concept, hard to do, and they work.

1.   Identify your recurrent negative thoughts

Negative attitudes are negative thoughts coming over and over. Your first tactic is to listen to yourself for one week and observe all the negative thoughts that come to your mind. Then write them down.

 The list can be really long; don’t feel intimidated or overwhelmed. Here is my pick for you:

 -       “I will never make it up in my career to be the general manager of my company’

-       “Others are smarter than me”

-       “I will not be able to cope with this digital era we are living in”

-       “I am too old to do this anymore”

-       “I am too old to start this business”

-       “It is too late to shift career”

-       “It is too early for me to have my own business”

-       “I’ll never be able to get ahead”

-       “I can’t complete this project”

-       “I can’t start this project”

-       “I am not pretty”

-       “My attire is awful; I will never learn how to dress”

-       “I will not be able to lose weight”

-       “Learning this is like rocket science for me”

-       “I am not a good sales person and can’t close deals”

-       “I have no experience to give this talk”

-       “Better not to join this group; they are all better than me”

-       “I will never be able to buy this … “

-       “I will never be able to impress her”

-       “I will never be able to impress him”

-       “I will never be able to attract her/him”

-       “I’d better stick to what I know and stay in the same place”

 And the list goes on and on. What are yours?