Day 3: Failure and ‘Stinking Thinking’

What is failure a source of?  Poor planning, undeveloped skills, poor timing, or how about the thinking of failing causing you to hold back on the devotion needed to be successful or as some call it, “Stinking Thinking”.  We hold in our head a supercomputer that starves for knowledge, and we can put ourselves in a position where we are intentionally starving ourselves into a numb state of mind.  Day 1, I mentioned that it has been proven that 91% of the things we worry about never come to fruition.

This stinking thinking is also called catastrophic thinking.  This is when we think there is going to be a problem or challenge and we blow it out of proportion to either prepare ourselves for the worst or talk ourselves out of something before we’ve even committed.  Example:  you have an Uncle that you are not close to, from the past he has said and done some offensive things.  Now you get to see him in a week.  In your mind, you are going through anything and everything he can say and you are developing your response, that is quick, to the point, and it will be the comeback that teaches him a lesson.  You play and practice this over, and over, and over again, just to be prepared, this is catastrophic thinking.  Then you finally meet, and he either didn’t show or he managed to be on his best behavior.  Waste of time and energy getting ready for something that never occurred.
             
This level of thinking is holding you back from productive thoughts, and productive actions.  It is keeping you from your best!