Don’t beat yourself up for procrastinating, it makes your productivity worse. [story]

[u/El_Diamante_34]

Self-negative talk will lower your self-esteem. As someone who struggles with low esteem a side effect is low performance. Whenever you begin to doubt yourself. Many of us will just not try but instead accept defeat. “I’m already gonna fail, so why try”.

Replace those thoughts with positivity. You’ve only studied for 30 mins, tell yourself this “Hey what matters I did some studying instead of nothing”.

The placebo effect is a real thing. Someone can give you a placebo pill without you knowing. Let’s say he sold you the idea that this pill will make you smarter and more focused. Therefore your thoughts will begin to think that this is gonna help. So you will go in hard on your studying

[u/im_a_teapot_dude → u/[deleted]]

What studies?

Going from negative self-talk to positive self talk is pretty much the core of CBT, though of course you don’t need to (and shouldn’t) intentionally lie.

Thing is, for someone used to shaming themselves all the time, accurately describing your situation to yourself feels like lying, which can be interpreted as “I know I’m lying to myself”.

That doesn’t mean it is or that you should necessarily listen to that thought that says it’s not true.

It’s also why, in part, it can be so helpful to ask “if someone else were in your exact life situation, what would you say to them?”

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Thank you for stopping me ! Regards...

[u/Competitive-Pop6530]

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