I thought I’d start a series on the 15 Errors of Thinking, AKA Dealing More Realistically with Mistakes.

This is actually a favorite topic of mine, because whenever I find myself stuck, I find I’m having an error in my thinking.

We’re going to tackle them one at time so that we can really contemplate why this kind of thinking is an error and how we can help ourselves by identifying this error and correcting it.

Today we are looking at a personal favorite of mine:

Oh man. Have you ever thought this way? Might as well just give up and forget it. The whole week is ruined. All that progress made, and it’s over, right?

Wrong.

After a week of doing really good at changing a behavior, clearly this person is feeling like a failure. But they aren’t a failure and it certainly isn’t reason to give up on changing your behavior. If they had 3 meals a day, for a week, that’s 21 meals. That means 1 meal out of 21 was a “failure.” So for 95% of the week, this person followed their meal plan. Is that a failure? Not in my book!

In fact, this person has done amazing for most of the week. Don’t let an error in thinking rob you of your success!

-Dr. Norton

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