How To Control Your Attention When You’re Feeling Anxious
You’re controlling your entire life!
We want to know what’s going on in the world and our communities.
We want to stay informed and do something, but is it worth the anxiety?
If you want to get over that type of anxiety, learn to control your attention. Here are four tips to help with that.
1. Consume Better Information
One of my favorite personal development books is The Power Of Compounding by Darren Hardy. In that book (which I highly recommend reading during these volatile times), Darren mentions how the concept of “Garbage In, Garbage Out” negatively impacts our outlook on life.
If you consume fear-inducing content from mainstream news outlets, your output will be the same.
I like to look at it this way: Fear in, fear out.
If you allow fear in your mind, you can’t expect that it won’t affect you. Force the most self-confident person in the world to watch cable news for a week, and they’ll turn into a shell of themselves. No one is immune to the impact of fear-mongering.
So be mindful of the information you allow in your mind. Instead of relying on your social media feeds or the tv, be willing to…
