Get Through Your Limits

Allowing yourself to become trapped when faced with difficult activities or challenges is a bad idea. Demand of yourself that you make more progress with each tiny effort. Spend time learning and practicing new, more assertive actions. Concentrate on taking clear, defined, and repeatable actions. Then look for outside assistance. Always request feedback using specific criteria. Break work down into activities, establish goals for each one, practice in low-risk contexts, and put failure recovery techniques in place. Finally, make sure you practice other challenging physical, mental, and social skills with the same diligence. Many of the important actions necessary for dealing with complicated and intractable situations necessitate specific interpersonal problem-solving abilities developed through much practice and research.