Predicting Success. Lahey David

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      By recasting the visual in your mind as a web whose various threads provide for a multitude of means to the objective, it might free your mind from its perceived pressure to get it right in one.

      • Try CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy was originally devised to help treat depression. Here, unhealthy and dysfunctional thinking is directly replaced by more productive, nourishing thinking. Rather than train our attention on the past, this psychological approach focuses on what's wrong with our understanding of an issue in the present, and offers constructive alternatives for coming at it from a different tack.

      Most importantly, these arrive in the form of practical actions, such that a person trapped in a particular mindset is motivated to kick into meaningful gear. By adopting the philosophies of CBT, an individual can discover fresh possibilities for recasting a situation in a new light that could never have surfaced inside of the penned-in enclosure of self-sabotage.

      • Fake it till you make it. An entire school of thought bands behind the idea that, if you trick your conscious mind into feeling a certain way, it'll eventually be convinced that it does feel that way. For decision-making applications, this means climbing into one of the idling vehicles awaiting your decision, and taking it for a test drive. Charge around the city for a bit, ignoring any discomfort you might feel for the angle of the steering wheel or the depth of the seat. You'll get accustomed to this stuff and the ride will feel sweet in due time. Before you know it, you'll have faked your way through your emotional journey long enough that it'll feel authentic.