The Rocco Effect

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence. - Bruce Lee How often do you have negative thoughts? I'm guessing more often than you'd like. We wouldn't let others talk to us that way, so why do we allow ourselves? Next time you notice one of these thought reply with 'Fuck off!' and replace it with the opposite though Eg. I'm stupid - Fuck off! - I'm a genius. Both are untrue, but one leads to you feeling rubbish and one leads to you feeling good. Why would you choose to feel rubbish when it's just as easy to feel great?  Comic Task   1. Notice your thoughts   2. Tell bad thoughts to 'Fuck off!'   3. Replace thought with the opposite   4. Start feeling great again   Journal questions   1. What thoughts have you told to 'Fuck off!'?  2. What have you replaced them with?  3. How do these new thoughts make you feel?

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life - Jocko Wilink We often play the blame game when we notice a problem. Passing the blame, (and as an extension the responsibility for solving it) to someone else. This blame game might give you a small boost of 'I'm better than them' happiness, but it solves nothing, if anything it just gives you an added problem of someone liking you less.   Why prolong the problem playing the blame game? Don't. Solve it yourself. you get the direct benefit of no longer having a problem, but you also get added benefits. We all know the uncle Ben phrase to Spiderman - With great power comes great responsibility. The opposite is also true, as we take on more responsibilities we become more powerful. Responsibility is just another word for problem solver. Next time you see a problem, someone else caused see it as an opportunity for you to becom...