I can meet needs of my family or meet my needs-not both. Perfectionistic Thinking: Things have to be perfect for me to be happy.Īll-or-Nothing Thinking: If I cannot be all things to all people, then I’m nothing. Self-Flawed Thinking: Nothing I do is good enough. Or they’ve had a truly insightful, change-driven therapist.Īs you read the list, check off the traps that trap you. Everyone you know thinks and speaks from several of these faulty thinking traps every day. You’ll find yourself, your spouse, teenager, mother-in-law, sister, best friend, and neighbor in these thinking traps. Negative thinking grows and grows and grows until it takes over, dominating your thoughts. If you identify and challenge your faulty thinking.įaulty thinking is like the imaginary beasts in those unknown areas. Catastrophic thinking.Ĭan you manage your mind monsters? Manage your thinking? Manage your mood? Writers often sabotage themselves with faulty thinking. When faulty thinking rules your life, it’s a monster. If they’d looked into the future, they could have drawn monsters devouring writers. In those days, cartographers drew in the off-the-map areas. “Here Be Monsters” was printed on old nautical maps on regions that were uncharted.
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