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How to handle conflicts
How to identify and regulate emotions
How to develop self-awareness
Thoroughly Exploring Your Options
Thinking everything to death before making decisions can be counterproductive, creating self-doubt.
If you keep researching every aspect and keep gathering every information to make that mythical perfect decision, you will never reach certainty.
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Being In Control
Always staying in control can turn one into a control freak. It can also make us fearful of situations when we cannot be in control.
One can feel unprepared in certain situations and avoid them altogether. Always wanting to be in control can also create unnecessar...
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Striving For Excellence
- Trying to do something perfectly is fine but always trying to be a perfectionist is a recipe for disaster.
- Striving for perfection is an avoidable ‘impossible standard’ that makes one self-critical.
- Failure to reach the impossible standard lowers one's self-worth.
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Steps To Take If You Are Self-Sabotaging
- Monitor your behaviour and acknowledge your self-sabotaging behaviour.
- Take action that is the opposite of what you intend to do while self-sabotaging yourself. Handle situations differently and observe the effect it has on you.
- Acknowledge your accomplishments and build your...
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Positive-Sounding Traits That Are Bad In The Long Run
Some behavioural traits generally have a positive connotation to them, but are self-sabotaging in the long run:
- Thriving Under Pressure
- Thoroughly Exploring Your Options
- Being In Control
- Striving For Excellence
These traits can set us...
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Thriving Under Pressure
Being able to work under pressure once in a while is a positive trait, but if it is an addiction to trigger focus, it can give rise to procrastination.
People create artificial pressure situations to add that spark of a time crunch but waiting to start your work ju...
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Gather Information for Weighing Your Options
When making good decisions it is best to gather necessary information that is directly related to the problem.
Doing this will help you to better understand what needs to be done in solving the problem, and will also help to generate ideas for a possible solution.
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How to make a decision
Since no mood can put you in the perfect frame of mind to make decisions, you can try to keep them from influencing your thought processes.
- Make yourself wait before you react. Reexamine the situation.
- Try to ignore your emotions by creating a formula to guide your de...
Make Better Choices
- Seek good information. Be skeptic and never just assume that what you’re being told is always true.
- Avoid common pitfalls, like making decisions without enough time or information.
- Look at previous mistakes so you learn from them.
- Check in with yo...
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