Evaluating Your Demanding Standards
This worksheet assists clients in evaluating their demanding standards, fostering the development of more flexible and constructive guidelines for performance.
Evaluating Your Demanding Standards
Demanding standards can motivate you and help you achieve things. However, if your standards are too demanding or too rigid, they might cause problems. If this applies to you, you might:
- Discount your successes and achievements.
- Feel very anxious about failing.
- Criticize yourself when you don’t meet your demanding standards.
Evaluating Your Demanding Standards is a worksheet you can use to examine your demanding standards and figure out whether they work for you. This will help you decide whether your standards need adjusting so they are more realistic and useful.
Overview
Striving to meet high standards can be a rewarding experience and can lead to significant improvements. However, these demanding standards may also have negative consequences, leading to emotional, social, and behavioral challenges. The Evaluating Your Demanding Standards worksheet is designed to assist clients in reassessing their high expectations and developing more flexible and supportive guidelines for their performance.
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