Self-Sabotage Trap: I Can’t Do Anything About It
Many of us deal with stress in two ways:
- Problem-focused coping is when we try to figure out what can be done and what cannot.
- Emotion-focused coping is when we are overburdened and start to whine and rant, feeling the pressure.
To help us out of this trap, we need to challenge our beliefs of what is under our control and what is not. We will find that most deadlines aren’t as rigid as they seem to be.
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