From Making Yourself Miserable to Making Yourself Happy

To appreciate how skilled you are at making yourself feel miserable, take this quiz. After completing the quiz, add up your score. Anything more than 15 means you could be a lot happier. 1 = Not typically me 2 = On occasion this is me 3 = Yup, that’s definitely me! Do you: Think a lot about what you want but can’t have? Feel stuck with where you are in life? Keep ruminating about the worst case scenario? Can’t decide what you will do or won’t do? Refuse to accept your limitations? Keep telling yourself what “should” have been or what you “should” have done? Distress yourself with useless worrying? Seek to make someone else over in your own image? Keep doubting yourself no matter what you do? Keep looking for water in a dry well? Hold a grudge for any length of time? Expect more from others than they can give? Well, how did you do? Are you miserable just thinking about how miserable you are? If so, revisit the questions in which you scored 1. Then give yourself a pat on the back. At least, you’re doing something right! Then revisit the questions in which you scored 2 or 3. Now, create a goal for yourself to reverse the tendency to do what you usually do. Let’s take question #1 as an example. If you responded, “Yes, I frequently want what I can’t have,” change that to “I’ll make it a point to be grateful for what I do have.” Can it be as simple as all that? Of course not. But it’s a beginning. Though adopting new ways will...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Psychology Self-Help Source Type: blogs