You Don’t Have to Go it Alone
December 23rd, 2008. Published under The Ultimate You. No Comments.
Making a mental inventory is a way of performing a self-assessment of your attitudes towards different situations. For example, does your stomach knot up at the thought of what it takes to achieve your best ROI ever, or do you feel energized and excited? The danger with attitude is that it’s usually on autopilot, and if a challenging situation automatically causes strife, then you’ve got a problem before you’ve even started. Identifying and mapping out factors that trigger anxiety or excitement is extremely important. Identifying negative attitudes will show you areas you need to control and will encourage you to confront such situations, taking the “fight” route instead of “flight.” Negative thought can suck you in and overwhelm like a flash flood, so you may need to retrain your brain to catch it when it first rears its ugly head. Sometimes it’s as simple as telling yourself to think about something else-don’t dwell on what’s got you down, keep moving forward. Other times, when you feel yourself in the shadows of pessimism, a good dose of sound reasoning can shed some positive light. If you make the effort to evaluate your negative thoughts and doubts, you’ll probably find that there isn’t sufficient evidence to maintain those insecurities-study the facts, not your fears.