Thought Management 101: Manage your thoughts for better mental health, resilience, & happiness!

Not managing our thoughts effectively can have very serious consequences like attention, learning, and memory problems, overwhelming stress, anxiety, depression, anger, and relationship problems. All this impacts our mental and physical health, decisions, and stops us from achieving our goals. The concerning part is that no one ever teaches us how to manage our thoughts.
Finally, here's a powerful overview of how to manage our thoughts effectively, once and for all!

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Video Notes:
0:00 Introduction: Our subconscious creates our emotions quickly!
0:18 How our thoughts cause our destiny
0:40 The problem with unmanaged thoughts
1:09 Thought Management 101
1:38 Automatic Thoughts
2:21 Big Idea #1: We can't prevent automatic thoughts from popping up
2:33 Big Idea #2: Most of our thoughts are negative!
2:50 The negativity bias
3:36 The 3:1 and 5:1 Ratio
4:05 Automatic Negative Thoughts
4:27 Big Idea #3 Don't identify with your thoughts!
4:47 Big Idea #4 Stop fighting thoughts directly
5:18 Big Idea #5 Welcome them and let them pass by without engaging them
5:50 The power of mindfulness and detachment
5:58 Big Idea #6 Create a better thought to push out the unhelpful thought and focus on it for as long as you can
6:56 Big Idea #7 Each time you lose focus but bring it back to the positive thought(s), you strengthen your focus muscles
7:43 Big Idea #8 What you think about and focus on, you feel and it grows
8:06 Big Idea #9 Unsupervised thoughts cause negative thinking spirals
8:24 Big Idea #10 Create a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative thoughts

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