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EXERCISE
In the Exercise portion of this story, we reemphasize that the only way you can develop the skills necessary to do what is in your best self-interest is to recognize, challenge and change your “Stinky Thinking.” The Exercise lets your children use real situations to recognize the “Stinky Thinking” and to imagine what would happen when they change their thinking to “Good Thinking.”
When we make decisions that are not in our best self-interest, we experience, either at that time or later, feelings of anger, embarrassment or resentment.
These emotions fall into the category we call “Not OK” emotions. We know that we should have done something different but were unable to overcome our “conditioned Stinky Thinking,” which is in our belief reparatory. You promise yourself that next time, you will do something different (something that is in your best self-interest)
but unless you recognize the foolish things you are telling yourself in the situation and change that self-talk, you will do the same thing again and again.
It is important that all of us learn to Challenge and Change your “Stinky Thinking” so that you can also be a “Too Smart Dog.”
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