"I'm not good enough," "Everything I do fails," and "Why bother" are all types of "self-defeatist thinking." Joseph T. Martorano, and John P. Kildahl authors of a book called "Beyond Negative Thinking" knew that the negative messages we sent ourselves had a powerful effect on our lives and in more ways than not directed our paths. They stated that, "Such inner speech shapes your life more than any other single force." I like how they called this negative thinking the " silent broadcast" tearing people down rather than building them up.
Joseph and John believed that a person could overcome this negative thinking by tuning into ones thoughts, becoming aware of self criticism, isolating destructive words and phrases, stopping the thought simply by telling yourself "No" or "Stop", accentuating the positive, and finally reorienting yourself changing the direction of your thoughts and thinking of what is lovely and good.
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