Sunday, December 9, 2007

Manage your Anxiety - How Deductions can help you

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The Dose:
Manage your Anxiety - How deductions can help you.

Anxiety remains the single largest contributor to performance decrements.
Anxiety- like an intelligent spy- gets onto your nerves during the most critical phases of your life.
Anxiety more often than not strikes you during those 'high-return' events in life that have the potentiality to change a lot of things for the better. Potentially step up the success factor in your life. As if anxiety knows where it is invited the most- at events where your performance needs to be the best. Anxiety strikes and makes you yield much decreased performance outcomes.

Deductions are pretty useful in managing anxiety.
Deductions are nothing but simple yet powerful "ways" in which any anxiety-invoking incidence is faced by you.
Deductions help you to meet the anxiety-invoking event in a way that best aids enhanced performance - and not decrease it. Deduction helps you manage anxiety and ensure a consequent increment in performance.

Deduction: See anxiety in terms of the 'gap' between the perceived event (i.e. an event's anticipation by you, before it occurs) and the actual event (actual occurrence in space and time). Anxiety will always be more if this gap is large.
It is this gap that determines how 'anxious' you are before a particular event.

You have no control over the actual event in most cases. It, thus turns out, is your perception of the event as being larger than your-own-self that induces anxiety. It is important to appreciate this. Anxiety primarily arises because of the perceived gap between your capacity to handle the event and what you think (perceive) the event demands. The actual event's challenge is far away when anxiety strikes. Hence, definitely it is an inferior response on your part. If anxiety's only output is your performance decrement (whatever be the challenge level in actual), you better do away with it.

It is from this observation that you easily learn how to 'deduce' the event in your favour. The best deduction is the one that brings out the best in you. This is all you CAN do - since in most cases the actual event's challenge level is not under your control. The more important thing is not "CAN" but "HAVE".

Best-deduction-practices:
Let's remind ourselves of a starting point. Recall an event (past) that you think you would have finished with much greater output had you managed your anxiety. Did you recall anything?

So you know what to do next time anxiety strikes!


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