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How to set boundaries to protect your energy
How to cultivate positive energy
Why rest and recovery are important
Control your attention
When you ruminate, your attention gets caught in an unproductive loop.
So step up and redirect your attention to areas in which you can take useful action.
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How we react to stress
Stress is largely caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them.
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Pressure is not stress
But pressure could be converted into stress, when rumination appears: the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts.
Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being.
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Let go
Try these techniques:
- Acceptance: Acknowledge that whether you like the situation or not, it is the way it is.
- Learn the lesson: Your brain will review events until it feels you’ve gained something from them.
- Action: Do something about your situatio...
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Put things in perspective
Try these techniques:
- Contrasting (comparing past stress to the current one, i.e., a major illness versus a missed sale)
- Questioning (asking yourself “How much will this matter in three years’ time?”)
- Reframing (looking at your challenge from...
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Wake up
Stand or sit up, clap your hands, and move your body. Connect with your senses by noticing what you can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel. The idea is to reconnect with the world.
Most of the rumination happens when you are in a state called “waking sleep": when you are doing things, but yo...
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Shift your attention away from worries
... and to the task at hand.
Mindfulness can help you regain a sense of calm and focus your attention, so you can avoid being caught off guard by your anxiety. You can see it for what it is, and choose to direct your attention elsewhere.
Taking the first steps
When you are ready to take action, get good at actually getting started.
It doesn’t matter how you start — don’t get caught up in indecision and research. Instead, take action.
Setting and Achieving Your Goals
- Step #1: Take Your Emotional Temperature, around the most important areas of your life.
- Step #2: The Neurology of Ownership: When we take ownership of something–an item, an idea or a goal–we are more committed to it.
- Step #3: Outcome + Process: Most peopl...
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