One of the most difficult things in life is to overcome negative thinking and programming. Overeating, procrastination, smoking, and perpetuation of destructive relationships are all hamstringing our potential. Telling yourself to quit this behavior is frustrating because it usually fails to solve the problem. That’s because you can’t effectively fight a negative with another negative.
It’s obvious to you that smoking is negative, so you fight it by telling yourself it’s bad, you instruct yourself not to do it, and then punish yourself for failing to quit. Meanwhile, you notice everyone around you rolling their eyes and saying, “I told you so.” How many negatives do you think will eventually result in a positive? It’s like rubbing glass shards and radioactive sewage into a shrapnel wound and wrapping it in an asbestos bandage.
Can you recall a particular day when you complained about not being able to get an annoying pop song out of your head? Wikipedia aptly offers, “earworm,” “brainworm,” and “stuck song syndrome” as definitions of this common malady, while “Wayne’s World” hilariously coined the term, “The Manilow
One of the most difficult things in life is to overcome negative thinking and programming. Overeating, procrastination, smoking, and perpetuation of destructive relationships are all hamstringing our potential. Telling yourself to quit this behavior is frustrating because it usually fails to solve the problem. That’s because you can’t effectively fight a negative with another negative.
It’s obvious to you that smoking is negative, so you fight it by telling yourself it’s bad, you instruct yourself not to do it, and then punish yourself for failing to quit. Meanwhile, you notice everyone around you rolling their eyes and saying, “I told you so.” How many negatives do you think will eventually result in a positive? It’s like rubbing glass shards and radioactive sewage into a shrapnel wound and wrapping it in an asbestos bandage.
Can you recall a particular day when you complained about not being able to get an annoying pop song out of your head? Wikipedia aptly offers, “earworm,” “brainworm,” and “stuck song syndrome” as definitions of this common malady, while “Wayne’s World” hilariously coined the term, “The Manilow
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