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5 Tips for Staying Calm When Success is Uncertain
You might wonder how successful people do it. How do they stay the course when they don’t know if they will achieve their goal? How do they know when it’s worth persevering? Researchers have found that the capacity to stay calm under pressure has a direct effect on your performance. In other words, being able to manage your emotions and stay calm under stress is a predictor of success. Managing stress is not an innate skill, its one that anyone can learn. Here are five tips on learning to stay calm under pressure. 1. Keep your self-talk positive One of the best thing you can do to stay calm and…
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Embrace and Just Be Yourself
em·brace /əmˈbrās/ noun 1. An act of accepting or supporting something willingly or enthusiastically. Fears, doubts and insecurities are all around us, outside and inside of us. Sometimes it may even seem easier to “just want to be someone else” as we wrap ourselves up in these negative feelings. The grass may appear much greener on the other side based on our perceptions and ideas. Which may or may not be slanted in the right direction, based on the past or current experiences we have had. The reality is often the exact opposite and others are more afraid than we are. What if the person you think has everything going…
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5 Tips To Avoid Being Negative
neg·a·tive /ˈneɡədiv/ adjective 1. consisting in or characterized by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features. 2. (of a person, attitude, or situation) not desirable or optimistic. Everyone does get negative at some point in his or her life. Whether it is at work or home negative situations happen almost all the time. It is rather unfortunate that we cannot avoid them and thus beg the question of how can we change these negative thoughts to positive ones. It is important to be positive in adverse situations, even though it might sound hard or rather impossible, it is very much possible to stay positive no matter the situation.…
