Ten Ways to Demoralize Yourself

1. Set a utopian standard for your performance and then reproach yourself when you don't reach it.
2. Start a bunch of projects, then don't finish them.
3. Periodically review the uncompleted items and gloss over any progress.
4. Resist setting up systems lest they restrict your natural creativity.
5. Imagine the worst thing that might happen and dwell on it.
6. Regard any success that you've achieved as simply a fluke or the result of others not recognizing your weaknesses.
7. Cling to the belief that other people don't have troubles and that their success was achieved through luck or connections.
8. Ignore or downplay the items over which you have control and rely on solutions over which you have no control.
9. Hang around people who will delight in deflating your dreams.
10. Place everything on your own shoulders and don't seek allies.