MRT Skill: Put It In Perspective

PIIP is a method to stop catastrophic thinking and deal with the most likely outcome

When you are making a mountain out of a mole hill

Describe the activating event, capture the worst case, generate the best case and then identify the most likely outcomes, and develop a plan for dealing with them

Optimism

This is when you waste critical energy ruminating about the irrational worst case outcomes of a situation, which prevents you from taking purposeful action.

• Downward Spriral
• Scattershot
• Circling

Optimism