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Ask For Feedback
If your anxiety spikes when you’re unclear of your goal, demanding high-quality feedback is important.
Repeatedly trying to clarify action points can not only hamper productivity, it can make less assertive people feel burdensome to clients.
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Curb Analysis Paralysis
Use your anxiety to access feelings of accomplishment.
Tim Ferriss recommends going further to manage anxiety-induced low productivity. Set aside three hours to complete one small task, even if that means putting off other urgent tasks. Taking your time to get one thin...
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Go Off The Grid
How attached are you to your devices? Nomophobia is the fear of being without a connected device.
The need to be constantly connected to information can skew priorities. But your productivity should not depend on your ability to get online.
In fact,...
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Treat Your Productivity Like An Anxiety Barometer
If you switch between tasks, seek distraction, and avoid addressing your goals, it could signal the beginnings of an anxiety episode.
Closely monitor productivity fluctuations and you’ll essentially develop an early warning system for those anxious feelings. If you reg...
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Don’t Calm Down
Instead of trying to calm your way out of anxiety, reframe the feelings as excitement and convert performance-related anxiety into goal-busting arousal congruency—a fancy term for channeling that sense of adrenaline that comes from high-anxiety situations into a positive effort.
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The Workplace War: Work Anxiety Vs. Stress
Anxiety isn’t the same as stress, but they are related.
- Stress is a response to direct external stimuli that goes away when you tackle the problem.
- But unlike stress, anxiety is impressively self-sufficient. It can happily exist all on its ow...
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4. Turn failure into feedback
When you follow your strategy and take consistent action, there are only two possible things that can happen. The first possible outcome is that you experience success by moving towards or achieving your goal, and the second possible outcome, of course, is failure.
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Bennefits of checklists
Using checklists will improve your work and increase your productivity. No more wasted time trying to remember what to do next.
Start using checklists and you will have all these bonus side effects:
- Organization. By making sure you’re not skippin...
7 Things You Need To Understand About Anxiety And Depression
No, we are not over yet. After discussing the topic with my friend’s Dad (he is a doctor), I’ve made a list of things you need to understand and avoid anxiety attacks (hard to breathe moments).
- Think of your anxiety as a biological problem, rather than thinking there is something wron...
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