This is where you have to be able to stop your thoughts...read your goals and realize that those thoughts are in no way helpful to reaching your goals whatever they are.
I wish I could give you a good stop thought method....some say close your eyes and picture a stop sign....some say imagine a sign flashing the words 'not helpful'....honestly for me neither of those worked. I picked up a thing from someone on here. Its posted below i'd give credit but I can't remember whose thread it was on honestly, but I wrote this stuff out on a notecard and wrote my goals out on the other side and i use it often to stop my thoughts. I think I posted it before b/c you joked about having red cheeks but it really has helped me.
Do this every 20 minutes or whenever your thoughts go awry then when you can last 20 mins, stretch it out to 30, but don't go beyond every hour on the hour for at least 1 week.
If I do the following, I will find the right solution for whatever I am facing in this moment
[b]When I think about Tracy or anything to do with her I will 1. slap myself on the face (one sharp quick tap on the cheeck with your hand) 2. rub some ice on my wrists/pop my wrist rubberband 3. say to myself "Mark, you are not reaching for your goal here"
Then I will go do something that feels good to ME: 1. read a thread or article 2. read my goals list 3. do something physical (e.g.. of something physical – push ups, run up and down the stairs etc)
