Claire HayekFounder, Mind. Soul. Purpose (MSP) Teambuilding · Pressure-Proof Leadership | Neuroscience-based leadership

WHAT IF...😬

13 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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When anxiety spirals into worst-case scenarios, deliberately exaggerate them to their extreme. Missing a test might mean failing the year, but life goes on. Most catastrophes we fear turn out survivable and often reversible, which shifts you from paralyzed to motivated.

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What if I don't succeed? What if I don't get a job? How do we get rid of those what-ifs or embrace the what-ifs and do something with it and widen up our view? What do we do? We flip the what-ifs. What if they do like me? But it doesn't just go, oh, okay, I'm just gonna be positive today, right? I mean, that would be too easy, right? If I'm late, take your what-if, exaggerate it, the worst-case scenario of the consequence of your what-if. So I, I'm late, I miss my test, and I fail the year. You miss the test. That's horrible. It doesn't exist, right? Okay, but then you could actually just imagine what the worst-case scenario is. And so it's not the end of the world. There's consequences, it sucks, but are you gonna be alive? No. Okay, are you gonna be able to take the class again? It sucks, but you'll be able to take the class again. You'll be able to— next time you'll learn and you'll make it better.