I ALWAYS PUT MYSELF DOWN
Workbook Volume 4
THE PROBLEM
Putting yourself down has a way of changing how you see yourself.
The more it happens, the easier it becomes to focus on flaws, dismiss strengths, and overlook progress.
You may find yourself minimising achievements, rejecting compliments, or speaking to yourself in ways you would never speak to somebody else.
After a while, self-criticism can become more than an occasional habit. It can become the lens through which you view yourself.
Instead of recognising what is actually there, you may find yourself searching for evidence that you are not good enough.
The result is often self-doubt, frustration, exhaustion, and the feeling that nothing you do is ever quite enough.
Are you seeing yourself clearly, or are you seeing yourself through years of self-criticism?
WHAT YOU WILL EXPLORE
Using Grid Society's Universal Grid Map of Patterns™, you will explore 12 self-criticism-based thinking patterns and 36 associated behaviours designed to help you recognise patterns, challenge assumptions, gain perspective, and move forward with greater confidence.
Inside this workbook, you will explore patterns such as:
► The First Critic
► The Compliment Deflector
► The Flaw Magnifier
► The Achievement Deleter
...and many more.
As you explore these patterns, ask yourself:
► Which of these patterns shows up most often in my daily life?
► How am I speaking to myself when nobody else is listening?
► Which beliefs about myself am I treating as facts?
► What evidence have I been ignoring about my strengths and progress?
► Which of these patterns am I ready to challenge?
THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD AT 2AM
When you are replaying mistakes, dismissing compliments, focusing on your flaws, or convincing yourself that you are not good enough, you do not need another motivational quote, another article to consume, or another conversation spent questioning yourself.
You need a simple process for making sense of what is happening inside your head.
The Pattern Recognition Collection™ by Grid Society gives those thoughts somewhere to go.
In as little as 15 minutes, you can begin to recognise thinking patterns that fuel self-criticism, challenge assumptions that may not be serving you, and gain greater clarity around the way you see yourself.
THE GRID SOCIETY METHOD
This workbook is built around the same Grid Society™ concept used with counsellors, educators, professionals, and workshop participants.
Inside, you will explore our newest framework, the Universal Grid Map of Patterns™, uncover behaviours you may not have noticed before, learn how to keep a simple record of your growth, and move through four distinct mindsets designed to help you recognise what may have been invisible until now.
You will also learn how to strategically download your thoughts onto paper, challenge assumptions, separate facts from stories, and bring greater clarity to thoughts that may be shaping the way you see yourself.
The Pattern Recognition Collection™
by Grid Society
See your patterns.
Name your patterns.
Change your patterns.
