THREAD: Here are 8 principles to successfully navigate disorder (this is hard to do!) that I've observed over the last few years coaching executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes.
On sustainable success, performance, mental health, and career advice:
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On sustainable success, performance, mental health, and career advice:
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Stop Resisting What Is Happening
Resisting change and disorder may feel good in the short-term but invariably leads to distress in the long-term. To work through a challenge you've got to engage with it. Not what you want. Not what you wish. But what is actually happening.
Resisting change and disorder may feel good in the short-term but invariably leads to distress in the long-term. To work through a challenge you've got to engage with it. Not what you want. Not what you wish. But what is actually happening.
Focus On What You Can Control, Don't Worry About What You Can't
There's a difference between worrying about a situation and taking productive action to influence it. Whenever you catch yourself doing the former, use it as a cue to do the latter. Helps both you and the situation.
There's a difference between worrying about a situation and taking productive action to influence it. Whenever you catch yourself doing the former, use it as a cue to do the latter. Helps both you and the situation.
Nail Daily Habits
Move your body.
Sleep.
Do what you can to eat well.
Nailing these fundamentals supports physiological and psychological strength. If you feel guilty or indulgent for doing these things, don’t. They are the foundation that supports everything else you do.
Move your body.
Sleep.
Do what you can to eat well.
Nailing these fundamentals supports physiological and psychological strength. If you feel guilty or indulgent for doing these things, don’t. They are the foundation that supports everything else you do.
Use Routines
When it feels like the ground underneath you is shaking, having tried and true routines provides a source of stability and predictability. This can be as simple as your daily walk, morning cup of coffee, meditation practice, or evening book-reading time.
When it feels like the ground underneath you is shaking, having tried and true routines provides a source of stability and predictability. This can be as simple as your daily walk, morning cup of coffee, meditation practice, or evening book-reading time.
Stay Connected
Study after study of resilience points to benefits of community. During periods of disorder there can be an urge to shut down and isolate. Do what you can to resist this urge. Odds are many other people are feeling the same way as you. We are stronger together.
Study after study of resilience points to benefits of community. During periods of disorder there can be an urge to shut down and isolate. Do what you can to resist this urge. Odds are many other people are feeling the same way as you. We are stronger together.
Combine Strength with Flexibility
Flexibility without strength is instability.
Strength without flexibility is rigidity.
The goal is to be somewhere in the middle. You want to be able to adapt to some things but also willing to push back against others.
Flexibility without strength is instability.
Strength without flexibility is rigidity.
The goal is to be somewhere in the middle. You want to be able to adapt to some things but also willing to push back against others.
Respond Not React
Holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl wrote, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Think 4 P's to help: pause; process; plan; proceed.
Holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl wrote, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Think 4 P's to help: pause; process; plan; proceed.
Show Up, Get Through, and Worry About Meaning on the Other Side.
Research shows that we look back on challenging periods in a much more connected and meaningful light than we experience them. Sometimes nothing makes sense until you get to the other side, and that’s okay.
Research shows that we look back on challenging periods in a much more connected and meaningful light than we experience them. Sometimes nothing makes sense until you get to the other side, and that’s okay.
I'll be sharing more observations and insights like this regularly.
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I post threads 2x/week like this. If you want more no-nonsense content on performance, mental health, and sustainable success, you can give me a follow.
See my past threads here:
@BStulberg
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