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  • What Thinking Trap is Limiting Your Performance?

  • Please select the answer that best resonates with you. Trust yourself. Please be objective and honest. The more honest you are with yourself, the better and faster you can improve your performance. 

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  • 1-I see things as black-or-white, right-or-wrong, with nothing in-between.*
  • 2-I focus on one incident to describe a situation or person.*
  • 3-I see things as dramatically more or less important than they are.*
  • 4-I overestimate the consequences of something negative happening.*
  • 5-I use “should,” “need to,” “must,” or “ought to” to motivate myself and then feel guilty when I don’t follow through.*
  • 6-I attach a negative label to myself or others after a single event.  Ex. I didn’t stand up to my boss. I’m such a wimp.*
  • 7-I make assumptions about myself and others without any evidence.*
  • 8-I minimize my accomplishments.*
  • 9-I blame others for my choices.*
  • 10-Without considering their beliefs, I run other people’s choices through my own belief system.*
  • 11-I assume my feelings are true without digging deeper to see if the feelings are accurate.*
  • 12-I allow one negative detail or fact to spoil my enjoyment, happiness, or hope.*
  • 13-I treat my thoughts like facts.*
  • 14-I focus on how unfair life is. I say “it’s not fair” a lot.*
  • 15-I believe external factors and things will make me happier in life. Ex. If I had more money.*
  • 16-I fixate on another’s behavior that fits my assumptions about an individual.*
  • 17-I assume people have negative motives more times than not.*
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  • 18-It’s easy for me to see the “gray” in life.*

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  • 19-I rarely use words like “always” or “never” concerning a single experience or event. Ex. She always does that…*

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  • 20-I am a realistic and objective person who sees situations as they are instead of dramatizing them.*

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  • 21-I focus on what I want to see in my future, not what I do NOT want to see.*

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  • 22-I live my life free from rigid rules for how my internal and external world should operate.*

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  • 23-It’s easy to forgive myself and not call myself names when I make a mistake or don’t do as I would like*

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  • 24-I gather objective data about myself and others before making a judgment call.*

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  • 25-I acknowledge the positives in my life, regardless of how small or big they are.*

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  • 26-I am mindful not to blame others or myself when I am not performing as I would like.*

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  • 27-I respect other people’s beliefs and choices and do not run what others do through my value or belief system.*

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  • 28-I challenge my feelings by looking for objective evidence before confirming them as truth.*

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  • 29-When I am met with the smallest negative detail or fact, I do not let it steal my enjoyment.*

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  • 30-I am careful when acting on a thought, and I first make sure it’s objectively true before responding.*

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  • 31-I realize life is not fair and focus on what I can control.*

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  • 32-I believe external things or experiences cannot make me internally happy.*

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  • 33-I believe humans are complicated, and one behavior trait cannot define a person.*

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  • 34-When someone is kind to me, I am not suspicious of them but gladly accept the compliment.*

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