Hi
Do you know about your terrible ANTs? These are Automatic Negative Thoughts that come from your inner critic, I'll never come to anything, I always lose out etc. Over anxious parents and schoolteachers practically teach us to be afraid of life.
ANTs are made worse by the fact that we tend to remember our failures, more than our successes! We replay our failures a 100 times in our heads.
One excellent way to defeat the ANTS is to keep a success diary. Mine is just a list with a single line for every success preceded by the date.
Start a Success Diary today and you will be amazed how much stuff you get right.
Get your Success Diary out when you are feeling discouraged and you will be boosted.
I list some of my entries just so you get the idea. First the rules, there is only one rule, you MUST NOT discount any success. If you win a prize do not say well only a few entered (that's one of those dratty ANTs!!)
23Oct06 Helped Louisa K. nurse with ebay
20May07 Regularly updating my AV and Success Blogs
28May07 Created Aloe Vera/MySQL Amazon Page
29May07 3rd Adsense Cheque £56
06Jun07 eBay 1600 Feedback
07Jun07 Good Day,Some eBay,Good Amazon, Good Ebook Paradise
08Jun07 Hygenist said my gums much improved!!
08Jun07 Won Bottle of Wine in Raffle & Teddy in Tombola
17Jun07 Complete London-Brighton Cycle Ride Glorious 6hrs
27Jun07 Earn first GreasyPalm £7.50 affiliate fee
12Jul07 Finally post to Web Warriors forum
15Aug07 My Aloe Vera Blog first or third on Google
15Aug07 Finish reading my first book in Spanish (New Years Resolution)
Labels: Automatic Negative Thoughts, Success Diary