

Instead of judging the actions or decisions of others, offer your expertise and do what you can to help improve it and mitigate risk rather than making it worse. Curb Self-Righteous Actions and Judgment - It’s quite easy to sit back and pick apart someone else’s strategy or plan and determine ways in which it could potentially fail.Greeting change or the unexpected with an open mind (rather than resistance) will put you in a better position to handle next steps. It is from a more balanced, neutral mindset that the best decisions are made - especially among leadership. Instead of rattling off the first thought that pops into your head, take a deep breath and go to a more neutral place with a response such as “wow” or “good to know”. Ditch Your Defensive Mindset - Going on the defense at work will never play out in your favor.Staying focused on what’s next will make you emotionally inexpensive and lead to better results. Your need for appreciation and credit is what’s keeping you from adding value and contributing to organizational goals. Stop Making It All About You - Curb your desire to be seen as right all while proving others wrong.Anxiety and self-doubt: Perfect recipe for underachievement. (n.d.) Paradoxical attitude necessary to overcome anxiety. Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model. 5 reasons people have low self-confidence. Self-therapy: A step-by-step guide to creating wholeness and healing your inner child using IFS, a new, cutting-edge psychotherapy, 2nd ed. The relationship between confidence and anxiety. Don’t beat yourself up because you’re feeling anxious: you’re not to blame for having adopted anxiety in the past as a coping mechanism to avoid feeling the pain of being criticized by others-or, indeed, by yourself.īratt, W.The more you can accept your anxiety, simply allowing it to be, the more quickly it will subside.To reduce future anxiety you’ll need to accept it getting worse in the present, which is why so many authors talk about summoning up more courage to confront it early and head-on.Contriving to reduce your anxiety in the short-term only increases it in the long-term.Your attempts to avoid anxiety and the emotional suffering that comes from it only make this state stronger and more intense.

Even when they may feel authentic (since your feelings emanate mostly from childhood fears) can you nevertheless attempt to see whether you can rationally talk yourself out of them? When outward circumstances automatically re-activate these pessimistic thoughts, question how legitimate they actually are. Your feelings of anxiety, born of self-doubt, can’t be trusted.
