Episode Introduction:

It’s time to challenge your stinking thinking. Tune in to find out how!

Episode Summary:

In today’s episode of the Rise Station Podcast, Prunella Harris walks us through 10 different stinking thinking traps and how we can acknowledge as well as challenge them to create a more positive life for ourselves.

Rise Tribe Takeaways:

• Some common themes of stinking thinking:

• Compare & Despair.

• Being Overly Judgmental.
• Black & White Thinking.
• Wearing Sunglasses or Rose Colored Glasses.
• Catastrophizing.
• Mind Reading.
• Making Predictions.
• Emotional Reasoning.
• Shoulds & Musts.

• Over Generalizations.

• How to challenge your stinking thinking habits:

• Focus on celebrating your uniqueness.

• Learn to agree to disagree to handle judgments.
• Remember that people and situations can have both good and negative sides in co-existence.
• Have the self-awareness to know when you’re filtering a person’s behavior based on your own bias.
• Instead of thinking about the worst-case scenario, look at the past evidence.
• Consider looking at the situation in a more balanced manner.
• Thinking about the likelihood of a predicted situation actually happening.
• Remember that your emotions are your feelings, not facts.
• Set realistic expectations and avoid putting unnecessary pressure on yourself.
• Work on improving the current situation instead of dwelling on the past.

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