Put your negative thought on trial: what's the evidence for and against? Then judge.

You're the bus driver. Hard thoughts are noisy passengers, but you stay on the road.

Your negative thought — if someone else thought it, would you agree?

With each negative: A (event), B (belief), C (consequence), D (dispute), E (energization).

Instead of "how to succeed?", ask "how to fail?" — then avoid the list.

State explicitly what you do not want in the output (words, styles, assumptions) to cut later editing.