Exploring Your Demanding Standards
The Evaluating Your Demanding Standards worksheet is designed to help clients re-evaluate their demanding standards and develop more flexible and helpful guidelines for their performance.
Exploring 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.
Exploring Your Demanding Standards is a tool you can use to examine your demanding standards and whether they work for you. It will help you decide whether your standards need some adjusting so they are more helpful.
Overview
Many individuals impose demanding standards across various life areas, such as work, relationships, and self-presentation. Though these can sometimes lead to success and reward, they often result in negative emotional, social, and behavioral consequences. The Exploring Your Demanding Standards worksheet is designed to help clients examine a demanding standard, including its advantages and disadvantages. This can highlight the negative consequences of pursuing high standards and motivate clients to experiment with adjusting their self-imposed rules.
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