"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."
-G.K. Chesterton
Throughout the last few months on this blog, I've talked a lot about cognitive distortions, how to challenge these, how our thoughts & feelings deeply affect behavior, and how our definitions of success and failure are crucial in our behaviors and attitudes.
Here are a few of these posts:
- Basics of the Cognitive Therapies
- REBT & Challenging Your Irrational Beliefs
- Identifying Cognitive Distortions
- Identifying Cognitive Distortions {Part 2}
- Challenging & Changing Cognitive Distortions
- What's The Deal With All the Catastrophizing?
- Stop the Guilt Beatings!
- Success or Failure?
- Learning To Fail Better
When we lose at something in life, we have two choices. We can beat ourselves/the other person up, complain, and quit, OR we can learn from what went wrong, and create a game plan for the future. That is the choice that YOU and YOU ALONE have to make for yourself. I see people blaming a situation for years, and in the meantime they've missed out on a number of opportunities because of the way they were talking to themselves. Please don't cheat yourself in life. Do yourself a favor, and learn to fail better in life! You deserve it:)
How do you talk to yourself when you lose?
What is one thing you'd like to commit to in order to help yourself "fail better"?
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