Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
A simple shift of language can help us turn towards gratitude. For example, try switching ‘I have to …’ with ‘I get to …’
So you keep running on a hamster wheel of success, driven by a scarcity mindset and the fear of being inadequate.
The key to using all criticism to your advantage is having your own back, having so much self-compassion that you are able to listen to criticism and decide which of that criticism you will take on board and use to your advantage as a learning experience, and which voices offer you nothing but dents in your self-esteem and crushed confidence.
As a general rule, it helps to look for a perspective that feels more balanced, fair and compassionate and that takes into account all the information available.
High emotion states can make it hard to think clearly, so it can be easier to start by reflecting on thought biases after the emotions of the moment have passed.
We become self-aware through self-reflection.
Thoughts are not facts. They are suggestions offered up to us by the brain to help us make sense of the world.
A simple shift of language can help us turn towards gratitude. For example, try switching ‘I have to …’ with ‘I get to …’
valuable practice to engage in regular evaluation of what matters most.
Coming back to your values and the reason you are doing this thing will help you make a decision based on your best interests and the life you want to have,