What’s the worst that can happen?

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07/15/2021
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Sarika Kishore

In his book “Making Habits, Breaking Habits”, Dr Jeremy Dean mentions three traps:โฃ

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๐Ÿ. ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค-๐š๐ง๐-๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ : Thatโ€™s when we assume weโ€™ve failed if we donโ€™t achieve perfection.โฃ

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๐Ÿ. ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ : Thatโ€™s when we blame ourselves for random negative occurrences. โฃ

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๐Ÿ‘. ๐‚๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ : Thatโ€™s when we assume the worst even with little evidence.โฃ

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Limiting beliefs and anxiety are very close to each other. Anxiety is our brain doing its best to avoid an outcome it imagined, or believed you already encountered. โฃ

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Limiting beliefs is you giving a pedestal to your insecurities.โฃ

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๐’๐จ, ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ?โฃ

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Start by questioning everything, ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜บ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด.โฃ

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Take the anxiety we all feel about our families who are far away because of the pandemic. Our heads are full of “what if… what if” and some of us can’t sleep at night just thinking about all the worst case scenarios.โฃ

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Questions you can ask yourself:โฃ

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๐Ÿ‘‰๐—ช๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง?โฃ

If you don’t know the answer, google that!โฃ

๐Ÿ‘‰๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž?โฃ

Sometimes it’s so absurd, and we don’t see it until we question it.โฃ

๐Ÿ‘‰๐—ช๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ˆ ๐๐จ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง?โฃ

Think of at least two things you can do.โฃ

๐Ÿ‘‰๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ˆ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฑ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ? โฃ

If not, schedule that.โฃ

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๐Ÿ‘‰๐—ช๐ก๐š๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง? ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ?โฃ

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Get used to questioning your anxiety and give permission to yourself to be wrong.โฃ

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This is not easy, and it won’t be solved in one try.โฃ

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๐—ช๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ?โฃ

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