Often, when we know we won’t accomplish something, we give ourselves excuses for losing. We tell ourselves that it doesn’t matter if we don’t lose the weight now. We can lose it next year. Or it doesn’t matter if we don’t get the promotion. We’ll figure out some other way to scrape that extra money together that we need.
This is a very pervasive coping mechanism that we use when we think we might not succeed. Instead of pushing ourselves harder to accomplish our goals, we prepare ourselves for what we see as probable failure.
If you’re more concerned with letting yourself down easily, then this approach might be for you. Otherwise, you need to take a different approach. I personally suggest that you make excuses for yourself to win, rather than to lose. Tell yourself why it is that winning is so important; and don’t talk yourself out of it.
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