Chad Silverstein and Chet used honest conversations to stop catastrophizing and rumination. Stress isn't the enemy if you manage it right, but it turns harmful when it breeds anxiety or twisted thinking. Write your problems down, get outside perspective, tackle one thing at a time, and stay true to your principles.
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I can't tell you how many times I started off practice sharing with Chet what I had going on and what I was dealing with personally or professionally. And him calling me out for catastrophizing whatever the situation was. And it's not a good skill to exaggerate and to make problems worse simply because of how you think about it. You know, the whole ruminator, the whole kind of sitting on the horns of a dilemma. It's not healthy. You want to be able to be able to see things from a different perspective with the help of someone in your life. That can help you when you're stuck and you're worried and understand that stress usually should be considered a good thing because it creates you to kind of step up and above and beyond whatever it is you're dealing with so that you can grow. The biggest times that you'll grow in your life is usually when you're experiencing stress and you overcome them. When it was the hardest thing in the world and you came out of it stronger. And all you have to do is look back at your life and see those. Just when you're going through it, you don't feel that. And that's what makes it so hard. Stress is not bad unless you think about stress. Bad. If it creates anxiety, that's bad. If you catastrophize and make the problem worse because you're assuming things that aren't true, that's bad. But if you could see stress for what it is, meaning it's something in your life that's causing some sort of conflict, whether internal or external, and whatever that test is, you know, again, think about tests you've had in the past and overcoming those tests. Usually you can come out and look back and, you know, sometimes you'll see why it happened, sometimes you won't. You'll see the benefits of it. Sometimes not for a long time. But again, it's all designed to help you, but it's a mindset and being able to control the way you react when you're stressed and when you have issues and taking them one by one because you can't deal with more than one mess at a time. And important. So, you know, get some clarity on how you respond to stress, where the stress shows itself and. And if you catastrophize things, write things down, get clarity, talk to someone and get it out. Sometimes just getting it out will be therapeutic for you to. To really kind of see what the problem is and know what the problem is so that you're dealing with the root and not just the symptom of it. That's, that's really important. And again, what does your worldview say about stress? Do you have anything in your worldview? And if not, go to your worldview and put something in there so that you can again, call yourself out with some gap that you're not living, you're not aligned. The next time you have a big stress event in your life and try your best to kind of live aligned with what you author in your worldview.
