In this episode, I’m going to talk about the ways using fear as fuel can sabotage you. A metaphor for you: If you want to run a marathon, and you hire a bear to chase after you so you finish the race, you probably won’t run linearly and you’ll spend more time looking behind you than ahead of you, and you definitely won’t enjoy the marathon. If you take the time to prepare, condition yourself, and practice, you will feel much better about the journey and you might even enjoy it and want to do it again.
Using fear and shame as motivation is going to result in wasted energy to stress, anxiety, and shame. Being stuck in that cycle of stress can force your body into a fight, flight, or freeze response, and you can’t always choose which one.
When you remove fear as motivation and you’re out of your stress response, what processes, systems, and strategies can you apply now that you’re not spinning in panic?
How efficient, effective, and pleasurable can meeting deadlines be? How can we learn to work with our natural cycles and rhythms rather than manufacturing scary conditions as motivation?
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Music credit: Positive Experience by Sunny Tones
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