"Everything goes wrong"
The phrase "everything is going wrong" can be very powerful. Once it has settled in your head, it will let you interpret what you experience every day in a certain way. In the worst case, you won't even notice what is actually working well or what you might be happy about.
In order to regain your own optimism, you should try to break the power of a sentence or an assumption that only ever shows you the negative.
When everything supposedly goes wrong
- "An accident seldom comes alone," says the vernacular. And maybe in some situations you actually have the feeling that everything is going wrong, whatever could somehow go wrong. This feeling or However, you should not let this assumption determine your perception.
- If you want to regain your optimism, you must first combat the pessimism that lies in a phrase like "everything is going wrong".
- To do this, it is helpful to analyze the sentence to see that it contains a totally inadmissible generalization. Challenge the assumption that everything will go wrong, so easy. Is everything really going wrong, but is everything really going wrong? If everything goes completely wrong, how did you even manage to read this article this far? Apparently your computer did not crash, the Internet connection did not break down and there was no power outage - so "everything" cannot have gone wrong at all.
- When you've found that "everything" isn't going wrong, the next thing you ask yourself is what's going particularly well. When you thought of the first things, more things are sure to come to you. Write them down so that you can see clearly what is going well.
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Regain optimism
- Once you've dismantled the phrase "everything is going wrong", you'll be able to regain your optimism too. By realizing what things are really going well, you steer your gaze away from the "problem areas".
- You should also give adequate credit to any event that is positive for you. Do not just ignore it when you have succeeded in something, as if it were a given and nothing other than the absence of failure.
- Instead, celebrate your achievements so you can really enjoy them. This also means that they stay in the memory longer.
Rediscovering your own optimism in a pessimistic mood is not always easy. Often, however, a small impulse can be enough to turn your gaze into another direction.
