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Habit Triggers, Krill Oil, and Eliminating Neck Pain (Sunday Reads #9)
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On Work/Life Balance, Anxiety, and Habits
A new study in the Journal of Marketing Research: “Emotions such as guilt about where time is being spent or fear over loss of income both generate stress, and make a person feel more pressed for time than they actually are.” I’ve always been of the opinion that work/life balance and “lack of time” isn’t the problem, it’s the underlying feeling of trading off the things that matter most to you. Missing your daughter’s piano performance for a mind-numbing meeting evokes feelings of guilt and resentment regardless of how much time you’ve spent at work or with family. So what do you do? One tip from the study is to pause to breathe more often.
Being mindful about anxiety can help to reduce it. “The solution isn’t identifying why you’re anxious in the first place (though that knowledge has its place), but recognizing the signs of anxiety before nervousness, panic and rapid breathing hijack your emotional wellness.”
Using quotations from others can help improve your self-talk. For almost 15 years now, I’ve been working on my own self-talk as I realize how important it is to overall well-being. Here’s one of my favorites from this list:
The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join in the dance. —Alan Watts
Great post by James Clear on habit triggers, something I’m a big proponent of. Using Time and Location triggers have been instrumental in a number of my own personal habits, including a new one to “do at least 10 minutes of mobility work every day” thanks to Kelly Starrett’s new book, Ready to Run.
