Excuses NOT to Change
8 04 2008For the next part of this assignment we are asked to write a story to ourselves as to why we will not follow the teachings in this book to change our lives. Kind of a way of identifying what we use for cop outs when we don’t want to acknowledge what we are doing isn’t working.
This is what I had to say
The reasons I fail to effectively deal with these issues are few and are cop outs actually instead of reasons. I don’t want to work through this because I don’t want to look weak even to myself. Crying is or at least was told to be a sign of weakness in my house growing up. There is also the one statement on page 28 that I seem to use a lot”Compared to what we could have had to endure, we aren’t doing so badly.” I seem to fall back on this one quite often. I always minimize what I have gone through because maybe it seems safer that way. If I keep minimizing it enough it just looks like another fact to life that some just have to go through. It is also my way of controlling what happened to me by not fully acknowledging the impact it had on me. Yes the “It’s too hard” resonates with me as well. I don’t want to deal with the emotional roller coaster I know this will put me on. That is the main reason I fail time and time again. I don’t want to deal with it> I want to feel normal in light of my abnormal past. I know I am not normal though so that is even more reason to work on what I have to work on.

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