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How to handle conflicts
How to identify and regulate emotions
How to develop self-awareness
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 unnecessary anxiety.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Anxiety You Can Control
The horror movie experience gives us a chance to control our anxiety, as we can always cover our eyes, mute the audio, or turn the lights on. If we want more anxiety, we can do the opposite.
Feeling scary for a fictional story can be less consequential and even the...
How Agoraphobia Is Treated
One can break the fearful cycle by forcing oneself to go outside, and not avoiding certain situations out of fear.
If the problem is out of hand, consult a mental health expert. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is generally prescribed to patients, along with medication.
It also h...
Negative learning habits
They are conditioned by our environment, because it is our tendency to put ourselves into situations in which we feel safe.
When we’re comfortable with one learning style, we do everything we can to create situations and environments that allow us to exercise that learning style. Conve...
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