Cognitive Distortions
and Organized Living
Cognitive distortions are nothing more than negative interpretations of life events.
Negative self talk will affect your personal organization and sabotage organized living.
When you interpret your life in a negative way it affects everything about what you do and how
you organize your life. Specifically negative self talk affects personal organization abilities.
Errors in interpretation that form the basis for negative attitudes and beliefs can be changed
if identified, examined, and re-interpreted in a positive way.
Manipulating closet drawers, archiving family memorabilia, and or setting up user friendly filing systems are the how to's of organized living.
None of it will matter or even be sustainable if you do not understand the why's.
It is your emotions, your attitudes,
and underlying beliefs you have embraced that form the fundamental structures you need to support
organized living.
Your life is mostly influenced by your own emotional state not the actions of others.
If personal organization challenges such as clutter, and chaos are driving you crazy, then
somehow and in some way you are allowing that to happen.
Cognitive distortions are more commonly referred to as negative self talk.
These are the messages you give to yourself about your worth, your abilities and what you think you deserve in life.
In order to improve your personal organization, and take control of your life you must examine your own emotions and beliefs because it is quite
likely they are playing a huge role in preventing you from achieving organized living.
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Common cognitive distortions or negative self talk are:
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A more positive way to interpret negative events in life
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- "I screwed up again."
- "I am not smart enough to try that."
- "It is not really what I want but it is good enough for me."
- "If I ask for help people will think I am stupid and know that I cannot even run my own life"
- "I should never have bought that but I couldn't help myself. If I get rid of it I will be guilty of wasting money."
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- "Even though this bad thing happened, I am still a good person."
- "I am going to take this opportunity to learn as much about why this happened as I can because I do not want it to happen to me again."
- "I think that perhaps I need some help with this because I do not seem to be able to help myself in a way that is helping to resolve this problem."
- "I wonder why I bought that? Maybe I was trying to make myself feel better by spending money?
My money was well spent on teaching me a lesson. Next time I will pay attention to my emotions before I purchase something."
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It is possible to change
negative self talk, but first you have to be aware its presence in your life.
Identifying your own cognitive distortions will help you understand your life.
Correcting them will help you to regain control of your life.
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