"Magic" to Calm your Anxiety
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Do you struggle with anxiety? Do you feel even more anxious if someone tells you to calm down? Do you find yourself so dialed into work that you don’t remember how to detach. Do you forget to take breaks? Do you think you wouldn’t be successful if you weren’t anxious? Think about that! So many people I work with are anxious and high performing. Unsurprisingly, many of these wonderful people have unwittingly given anxiety at least some portion of the credit for their success. It is true that some level of stress can drive ambition and performance and success (See Yerkes-Dodson Law). But, as with so many things, there is a point where the benefit of stress levels off and then performance takes a deep dive as the stress continues to climb.
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