While it’s often important to respond to your sabotaging thoughts so they don’t get the best of you, there are other times, like if you keep having the same thought over and over again, when it’s best to just ignore them. If, for example, every time you go to get coffee you think, “I really want one of those donuts,” it can be helpful to say, “That’s just a sabotaging thought. Pay no attention to it and move on.”