Self Improvement Tip of the Day: Why We Must Learn To Forget! (cont)

Are you still upset about a minor incident or disagreement with your partner, a friend or a work colleague, hours, or even days, after the event? Do you replay the incident over and over in your head and can’t forget about it?
Many people are even harsher on themselves. It’s possible to spend so much time mentally beating ourselves up over something, that it totally prevents us from moving forward.

Obviously it depends on how serious the incident is, or how serious we consider it to be. Sometimes we just have to try to be more tolerant and less demanding. But there’s no doubt that replaying and rehashing negative events and feelings is destructive and pointless and will do us no good at all.

Think about it, if you went to a movie and didn’t enjoy it at all, would you keep going back to see it over and over? Yet this is exactly what we can all too easily do in our minds.

To be continues…. Meanwhile you’ll find many self improvement resources here, and you can also claim a FREE copy of Napoleon Hill’s classic THINK AND GROW RICH here!

Self Improvement Tips Quote of the Day:

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!’”
- John Greenleaf Whittier