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Basically what stops us is some destructive ways of thinking called "Cognitive Distortions".

Here is a summary of the nine most common distortions for your quick reference:

1. Overgeneralization. From one isolated event you make a general, universal rule. If you failed once, you’ll always fail.

2. Global labeling. You automatically use pejorative labels to describe yourself, rather than accurately describing your qualities.

3. Filtering. You selectively pay attention to the negative and disregard the positive.

4. Polarized thinking. You lump things into absolute, black-and-white categories, with no middle ground. You have to be perfect or you’re worthless.

5. Self-blame. You consistently blame yourself for things that may not really be your fault.

6. Personalization. You assume that everything has something to do with you, and you negatively compare yourself to everyone else.

7. Mind reading. You assume that others don’t like you, are angry with you, don’t care about you, and so on, without any real evidence that your assumptions are correct.

8. Control fallacies. You either feel that you have total responsibility for everybody and everything, or feel that you have no control, that you’re a helpless victim.

9. Emotional reasoning. You assume that things are the way you feel about them.

Each day I'll talk about one in particular and what you can to free yourself from this struggle.

*I look forward to sharing these tips with you.*