It is the battle cry of the self-help faithful.
“ I am focusing on the positive!”
There could never have been a dumber idea presented to the world. Yet all of us do it at one time or another. Let me give you a suggestion that might seem a bit revolutionary….
SCREW POSITIVE THINKING! It is stupid and destructive. Read More
Would it help me to say that change is hard if not impossible? That the life of a person who has phobias, social anxiety, problems with weight or smoking or habitual bad habits is doomed to failure? Would it help me to say that you should stay stuck inside a horrible reality where you don’t even have a chance of reaching your life’s potential? Amazingly the answer to this question when applied to my advice being accepted by people in general is a definite YES!
But this is simply not advice I’m willing to give. I think it’s retarded.
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Everyday my inbox gets filled with articles relating to social anxiety disorder. It’s something that completely fascinates me because I’ve gone through it and found a way out, so many don’t. Some because they don’t want to, others because they don’t think they can, and still more because they just don’t know how.
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Who are YOU? How would you describe yourself? What is it about you that cannot change otherwise you would become a different person? Would being a different person be a bad thing?
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Would it be fair to compare a person to a business? Probably not, they are 2 fundamentally different things. However would it be fair to say that the forces affecting a person are the same or similar to those affecting business? Definitely
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