“If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.” IfsGivingCan DoPlansAnxietyWeightCreditShouldersNervousCan Do SomethingGiving Yourself Author:Anna Olson
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.” ThinkingWritingI CanHardDonePastLife IsThreeBitsCan DoGoneFiveMaterialsAnxietyJokesPressureCome UpRelaxScreenplaysI Can Do ItParalyzed Author:Steve Martin
“There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.” WantSometimesMightCan DoPleaseProveAnxietyProjectsPassionateStudiosYou Can Do It Author:Justin Lin
“We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't.” IfsThinkingShouldWellsCan DoAnxiety Author:Kumar Sangakkara
“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.” PeopleFallCan DoResultsSourceAnxietyFlowEssenceBoredBoredomGloriousFrustrationCapabilityWorkplaceExceedMismatch Author:Daniel H. Pink
“A meditator cannot smoke, for the simple reason that he never feels nervous, in anxiety, in tension. Smoking helps - on a momentary basis - to forget about your anxieties, your tensions, your nervousness. Other things can do the same - chewing gum can do the same, but smoking does it the best. In your deep unconscious, smoking is related with sucking milk from your mother's breast. And as civilization has grown, no woman wants the child to be brought up by breast-feeding - naturally; he will destroy the breast. The breast will lose its roundness, its beauty.” WantFeelsChildrenDoeReasonHelpingMotherCan DoLosesSimpleForgetCivilizationAnxietyBasesNervousSmokeRelatedTensionUnconsciousSmokingBreastsMilkFeedingMomentaryWomen WantGumChewingNervousnessChewing Gum Author:Rajneesh
“Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.” PeopleWayWritingDoneShowsMotivationalLife IsCan DoStepsPracticeProgressExerciseOne DayDespairAnxietyPainfulIronyHelpfulFinding YourselfPanicProcrastinationBlogsReassuringWay ForwardBuckles Author:Gretchen Rubin
“I'm wise to be a good steward, but I'll never be my own rescuer. The worth thing you can do with fear and anxiety is to pretend you're too strong to have them. The best thing you can do is just to let Him be in charge of them” StrongCan DoMy OwnWiseAnxietyBest ThingsStewards Book:Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change Source: Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change
“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.” HappinessCan DoWorryActivityAnxietyStressCaringWork StressReduce StressStress And WorryDon't StressInspirational Stress ReliefNo StressInspirational Stress Author:Wayne Dyer