Tag: fear

Labels

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Labels can help you anchor your experience. Knowing that you are a male, a father, a husband, a marketer, a son, a friend can help you find your identity, your group, your meaning.

But at the end of the day, when you abuse labels, you go through life with expectations that are fictitious. And you risk to force variegated experiences in boundaries that just won’t hold them.

Get into the habit to use labels for what they are, nothing more than a possibility. It’s going to be easier to get rid of them and live life to its full potential.

It’s ok

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It’s ok to feel down.

It’s ok to have negative feelings and thoughts.

It’s ok to want to be on your own, to not want to meet people, to not feeling jolly an merry all the time.

It’s ok to want a break. It’s also ok to take a break.

None of those things make you any less normal, any less capable, any less worth.

You are never alone. And reaching out is a great way to be reminded of that.

Little and difficult

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It’s incredible how little people need.

Attention.

Care.

Support.

It’s equally incredible how difficult it is to give that to them. Unconditionally.

It wasn’t me

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Most of the times, when something is wrong, our first reaction is: it wasn’t me.

And most of the times, that really doesn’t matter. Because the point is that something is wrong, not who was the one who made it so.

Instead, you can try to say: I’ll fix it. Or: here’s what I will do about it.

When the wrong is righted, nobody will remember whose fault it was.

Taking time

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Don’t underestimate the effect of taking time.

Before sending out an important email.

Before replying to an unnerving message.

Before making a crucial decision.

Contrary to waiting, taking time is an intentional effort. It requires you to get out of the current situation and of the flow of emotions to make some distance between you and the subject of the intended action. It gives space for relaxation and reflection. It gifts clarity of mind.