I listened to a terrific podcast recently by Dr Christian Jarrett. He interviewed two world experts in the psychology of procrastination - Professor Tim Pychyl at Carleton University and Dr Fuschia Sirois at the University of Sheffield.
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Stress and anxiety are almost always caused by psychological and/or emotional forces.
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You’ve heard of the 12 days of Christmas…well here’s the Thrive version!
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If you’ve read Barbara Fredrickson’s book titled Positivity, you’ll remember it promptly starts with two versions of her “start to the day”. She refers to these two versions as Take 1 and Take 2.
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“Tread the path of haunted souls. As darkness descends over historic buildings, the burial ground and empty pathways … the time comes to encounter the ghosts of our site.”
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We all face fears throughout our lives. It’s natural, we’re human. And more often than not, we face our fears and grow mentally stronger as a result. The problem comes when we don’t face them but instead develop unhelpful thinking styles and/or behaviours to avoid them.
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Four leaf clovers, lucky underpants, or that special charm bracelet that grandma gave you. Do you really believe they bring you luck? Really?
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Most people suffering from depression and related conditions believe exactly as I did for many years; that there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. Some sort of misplaced connection that’s different to everyone else, like a badly-wired plug or a car with an intermittent fault that nobody else can experience or see but you.
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If you really dislike the feeling of being “out of control”, the chances are you have a high “desire for control”.
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It’s not uncommon to hear “I’m so stressed but I’ve no time to do anything about it”. I hear that from new clients, friends, and family. They’d love to but “there aren’t enough hours in the day”. Familiar?
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