How You Should Feel About Shoulding on Yourself - Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites Podcast

How many times in a day do you should on yourself?

You know, that little voice inside your head pipes up and says things like, “I should have been kinder” or “I should have known that would happen” or even “I shouldn’t be so gullible!” 

When you should on yourself, you might as well wag a finger in your face, because you’re scolding, shaming, and bullying yourself. When you should on yourself, you’re expecting the past-tense version of you to have been a fortune teller, magically foreseeing how things would turn out and doing things differently.

Should-ing is focusing in the past, where you have no power. Seriously – there are no do-overs. You can’t go back in time and do what you now think you should have done.

Self-shaming is one of the least productive, most destructive things you can do to yourself. Whenever that voice inside your head starts shoulding on you, notice it, identify it as self-destructive, and focus on what’s happening around you.

That’s a productive use of your brainpower.

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