How much time do you waste letting your anxiety push you around? Not take a risk because it won’t work out. Scale down your dreams because they’re not ‘realistic.’

You know what you’re doing when you choose to take anxiety seriously? You’re acting like you can predict the future. That’s all you’re doing.🔮

Sure, anxiety dresses itself up in the disguise of being the adult in the room, being ‘logical’ or ‘sensible.’ But anxiety is just focusing hard on what you don’t want to happen. Which makes zero sense when you think about it.

From Steve Jobs to Beyonce, Anna Wintour to that person at work whose confidence you wish you had, they all have one thing in common – they don’t let their anxiety push them around.

I guarantee they have it, whether it shows up as imposter syndrome, self-doubt or pure fear – but it’s not the boss of them. They have learned to hear it and ignore it. âœ‹

Which is possible by the way. And sensible, too. Because when you stop letting anxiety push you around, you stop focusing on the worst possible outcome, you stop emotional eating/overdrinking/netflix-ing, never quite gettting started, giving up constantly, or saying things you regret to people you actually love because you’re so tense. Whatever anxiety is making you do, you’ll stop.

It takes us so long to learn that anxiety lies..

And – crucially – that being anxious, worrying or feeling dread don’t help the situation at all. In fact, because of the impact anxiety has on your mind and body (cutting off higher cognitive function) it becomes HARDER to problem solve and find your way to a new reality when you follow anxiety.

There are simple, powerful ways to change how you see a difficult situation so that, instead of a big overwhelming, terrifying, dangerous moment you simply see a problem that needs to be solved.

I can show you how to stop letting your anxiety push you around. It’s time to take back control. ðŸ‘‡

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