Intent.com | Dream It, Share It, Achieve It. Spotting Emotional Manipulation. Self-Sabotage - Stress Management Training from MindTools. Recognizing and Overcoming It © iStockphoto "You can't do that! " "That's way too difficult! " "If you try, you'll probably just fail anyway. " Negative self-talk is something we have all probably engaged in at some time. When it rears its ugly head on a regular basis it, it can lead to self-sabotage, and can stop us achieving our goals and dreams.
What's worse is that we usually don't recognize that it's even happening. This, in turn, strengthens the negative messages we feed ourselves, and we get caught in a self-sabotaging cycle that can be very difficult to break. The tell-tale sign that you are sabotaging your self is when you grind to a halt when you're trying to achieve your goals, for no rational reason. When you feel that you can't do something you should be able to do, or that you shouldn't do something, even though you know deep down that you want or need to do it, self-sabotage is at work.
There are some common themes in self-sabotaging behavior. Procrastination Unfulfilled Dreams 1. Obama's Speech and America, Inc. - Thoughts - Nomi Prins. Watching Obama deliver his State of the Union Speech last night, reminded me of all the rah-rah quarterly meetings that we had to attend as Managing Directors at Goldman, where senior management would remind us all of how great we were, and if there were any areas of competitive weakness relative to our adversaries at other banks, all we had to do was step up our game, innovate and globalize (or something like that.)
Obama wasn't delivering a summary of what has, or is, going on for most Americans last night, no such negative status report. And, if you didn't expect him to, he gave good speech - full of reminders of how it is America's destiny and the American dream to be great and powerful, "robust democracy" that we are. There was a massive pink elephant in the room called reality though.
So, when he waxed proud when he said, "We are poised for progress. Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. Psychiatric Drug Facts with Dr. Peter Breggin - HOME. PonderAbout.com. From a line in William James'The Principles of Psychology mashed graphics from cartoonist Ray Moore's The Phantom, via.
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