Explore the importance of understanding your true financial and emotional state. Discover how generalizations can distort your perception of reality, especially in challenging times. Learn to assess your environment by asking, 'What's really true?' rather than relying on assumptions or hearsay. This clarity can help you make better decisions and alleviate unnecessary stress. Embrace a grounded approach and stop exaggerating, as reality is the foundation for effective problem-solving.
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volunteer_activism ADVICE
Check In With Reality
Regularly check your bank account and assess your family's feelings.
Examine your professional and personal environments without exaggeration.
volunteer_activism ADVICE
Avoid Exaggerations
Avoid generalizations and exaggerations, which can create unnecessary pressure.
Ask yourself "What's really true?" to ground yourself in the current reality.
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Truth and Decisions
Generalizing situations often distorts the actual reality.
Getting to the real truth helps make sound decisions.
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How much money do you actually have in your bank account? How do you and the people in your family really feel right now? Really. What's really going on in your professional environment? In your personal environment?
Not generalizing or exaggerating. Most people have a tendency, me too, to generalize. Everybody's leaving. It's so awful. Everybody's leaving the company, what do you mean? Everybody's leaving. It's so awful. Everybody's leaving the company? What do you mean? Well, Sally said she thought she might want to get a new career. And over 35 years of my consulting and coaching practices, I've often seen, And over 35 years of my consulting and coaching practices, I've often seen, all I have to do is to start to address, what is the real current reality?
And there are lots of ways to do that, but I would highly recommend you examine whether you're running any exaggerations or generalizations. That may be creating more pressure than you need. What's really true? What do you know what's really true? What do you know is actually really true?
Not "What do you think is true?", or "What do people say is true?" But, what do you *know* it actually really true? It gives you a grounded base to actually make decisions from.
I could spin on that for a long time, but let me just say if that rings any of your bells at all, notice whether you're generalizing and exaggerating. And if so, stop it!
Just say what's really true right now? Because you need to know what's the current reality so that you can then move from a ground base of reality. Not from some expectation of that, or generalization of that, or exaggeration of that.
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