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8 Thought Patterns That Cloud Your Judgment
Our thoughts impact our actions, and ultimately, the level of success we achieve.
Our thought patterns influence our emotions and perspective of the world.
If you can identify your unhelpful thought patterns, you can correct them and develop new ways of managing yourself and the world.
Your thought patterns influence multiple aspects of your life, so here’s 8 thought patterns of destruction that you need to avoid:
1. Making assumptions.
Correct information is essential in making good decisions.
So delay your judgement before reaching a negative conclusion about a person or situation.
Too many of us jump to false conclusions because we don’t have all the facts.
So make an informed decision by gathering all of the available information and not allowing emotion to intervene.
How many times have you made a decision too quickly and regretted it?
Give yourself the chance to be right.
2. Applying the past to the future.
Your past, and whoever made you feel like you weren’t enough to have everything you ever dreamed of?
Your past and those dream stealers have nothing to do with your ability to achieve the success of your wildest dreams today.
The past never has to equal the future.
What’s worse? We’re too quick to believe our current abilities mean we’re experts in the subject.
Just remember that one failure is not enough to prove anything!
Pharmaceutical companies aren’t allowed to test a drug on just one person and then release it to the public.
Many attempts are required to prove that results aren’t due to random chance.
Even if you are not a natural in some skill you wish to have, you have the ability to learn and become someone with those skills.
You weren’t born knowing how to walk, speak or perform high or complex tasks.
If you have the desire and passion for something you are not yet ready for, you must do the work required to become ready!
3. Focusing too much on the positive or the negative.
Strive to be accurate.
Consider when you start dating someone new.
At first, you are normally super focused on their positive traits that get your feel good hormones going.
As the relationship is failing, you’re too focused on the negative – which might lead you to make things worse.
Neither is accurate.
4. Giving things too much or too little relevance.
Do you give too much focus or attention to your failures?
Do you give your successes too little?
Have a balanced view of both. Just because you “woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning” does not mean you have to have that attitude all day!
Give yourself the credit you deserve.
5. Taking something personally that has nothing to do with you.
For many reasons that do not include you, people may do and say things that may be hurtful or cause you to believe you need to fear.
Remember – they might be having a bad day or dealing with a personal issue.
It’s not always about you.
Your car breaking down doesn’t mean the universe is out to get you.
Be sure to remind yourself that others have more on their mind than just you – you are not center of everyone’s reality.
6. Focusing on the past.
While the past can provide extremely valuable lessons, most people don’t use the past constructively.
They focus on the missed opportunities and mistakes.The focus on lack.
And when used in this way, feelings of regret are created from this focus on the past.
Let it go – avoid allowing it to cloud your future.
7. Focusing on the future.
Having goals and plans is one of the most important factors for success! But it’s common to use the future as a source of worry.
Stay focused on today. Today is the only time you can change your life.
Allow the future to arrive. It will come soon enough.
It’s best to keep your end goal in sight and allow it to motivate you. You just have to learn not to focus on it and have it consume you.
8. Putting things off.
Is it not easier to have something replaced after it’s already deteriorating and in the end causing something to fail?
If you wait until you’re forced to deal with things, your solutions will be less elegant and less convenient.
Do things on your time. But Eat That Frog and do that hard things first.
Have you ever indulged in any of these negative thought patterns?
Being able to notice your tendencies is the first step to changing them.
When you catch yourself thinking in a way that clouds your judgement, replace your thought pattern with one that serves you well instead of opening the door to failure.
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