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There are certain core mindsets that are applicable across the board, in all areas of endeavour.

Situations of importance can cause us stress. When there is something at stake pressure mounts, and anxiety and stress often creep in.

When in potentially stressful situations – social situations, dating, making love, giving speeches, working in a job, making art, playing sports, competing in any area, trying to ‘get ahead’ in life, dealing with interpersonal relationships, dealing with painful emotions such as depression or anxiety – it helps to have mindsets that can keep us calm and instill a healthy sense of perspective.

Here are 10 mindsets to get you through ANY stressful situation.

Chose To Enjoy EVERY Moment of Life, Whether ‘Good’, ‘Bad’ or ‘Indifferent’

We will all be dead relatively soon. Life is short. Enjoy and deeply savour THIS moment, whatever it is that you happen to be doing. Even if it is something mundane, a pain in the ass, or unpleasant, chose to find enjoyment in simply being ALIVE.

Live every moment with joy and excitement. Do every task to the best of your ability. Squeeze every last drop of juice from life.

By far the biggest gift that any of us could ever receive is… being alive now.

NOTHING Is Worth Stressing About

Life is too short to stress.

When you consider that you are alive now, against all the odds, for a brief sliver of time, you can get a sense of perspective on the usually silly things that you allow to stress you out.

When you contemplate the vastness of the cosmos, the infinity of time, and the shortness of a human lifespan, no worldly concerns should stress you out.

Let situations and people be whatever they happen to be. Enjoy your brief stint on planet Earth.

Don’t stress.

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

Rejections, mistakes, failures, social embarrassments… all of these reversals can make you stronger, better, and happier in the long run, IF you allow them too.

Learning to embrace and use failures and rejections to your advantage will massively improve your effectiveness in the world.

FUCK What Other People Think

FUCK what any other person happens to think about you or your life choices. How another person thinks about you is THEIR business, not yours.

Live life on your own terms. Nobody knows what is right for you, but you!

Any thoughts that may be buzzing around inside another person’s brain about you are benign and none of your concern.

People Think Better Of You (and LESS About You) Than You Tend To Imagine