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Listen To Your Body
Your body would give you signs to alert you of any anxious feelings. Ask yourself why you’re anxious. Is it because you’re excited? How you interpret anxiety could be good or bad. If you’re about to give a speech, for example, anxiety is good. Instead of trying to avoid it, understand it.
When you have too much anxiety, it’s often because you’re telling yourself a story. It’s often not the event that causes anxiety; it’s the story we tell ourselves about it.
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The Difference
A minimal level of anxiety can actually be helpful to daily functioning. It's is a fact of life if not debilitating enough for medication. says psychologist Bob Rosen.
How you use it makes all the difference. As the world gets faster and more uncertain, it’s easy to let [a...
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Addressing That Energy
When this happens, take a long walk or breathe deeply if you have too much anxiety. You can get a sense of the source of the anxiety, peel back the onion, and find the cause.
All change happens in the gap between our current reality and desired future. We h...
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Possibility Of Hurdles
Refrain from viewing anxiety negatively, as something to fear and avoid. Anxiety is a wake-up call, an important message to pay attention to. Accept this experience to be naturally human.
Understand that stability is an illusion and uncertainty is reality. This change can ...
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Too Much Anxiety
Some people naturally have too much anxiety, those that have the Need to be right, have control, success and power. They orchestrate everything around them, and are mistrustful or suspicious, being scared of inadequacy, failure, being insignificant, or being taken advantage of.
You have too...
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Too Little Anxiety
Too little anxiety isn’t good either. This would have you put your head in the sand in the face of change. Not wanting to take risks, valuing status quo and enabling a bubble.
You have too little anxiety if you’re too idealistic and cautious, detaching from all of the change around you. Th...
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Good Anxiety
Just enough anxiety like Eustress can be a productive energy. Living with the right amount of anxiety provides just enough tension to drive you forward without causing you to resist, give up, or try to control what happens.
The first step is getting comfortable being uncomf...
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The story you want to hear
We often tell ourselves a story while ignoring the truth. Reasons we do this is:
- To protect ourselves or others. Ignoring the truth is a defence mechanism. We'd rather believe a lie than own up to our own weakness.
- Because the truth ...
Rewrite your networking narrative
Pause and reflect on the stories that you tell yourself about networking. Do you tell yourself that networking is something you’ll do later when you have more time? That you don’t network because it’s inauthentic and fake? Or that you don’t have access to an influential network, so there’s no...
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