Wasteful Thinking
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What are the most common "drag you down, get in the way of success" thoughts?
- Defeatist (accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat)
- Cynical (contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives)
- Vindictive (seeking revenge)
- Blame/ Fault (who cares? what are we going to do now?)
- Wishful (do what you can to influence the deal/ project/ situation and keep moving)
- Self-pity (get over yourself… complain less… especially to yourself)
- Worrisome (it won’t help, costs time, and can drag you down)
- Jealous (want it? earn it)
- Pre-argumentative (the imaginary argument you have to prepare yourself for the argument that may never happen)
- Post-argumentative (the imaginary argument you have where you’re quicker than you were in the actual argument)
- Procrastinatory (if you’re going to procrastinate, you might as well do something fun instead of thinking about how bad it is that you’re procrastinating… dummy)
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Thanks, Patrick and Timothy.
Good points. Making these points actionable is challenge for most especially point # 11. Go figure.
Excellent!!!! Shared it with many
Thanks, William.
Nice catch, DT. Embarrassing. Revision was made.
This is great. But just a heads up that you might want to fix the typo in #9 on the downloadable pdf.
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