If you're stressed today or this week in the lead-up to Christmas because you have too many nights out to go on, too many Christmas presents to buy, and too many Christmas cards to write, worrying about the Christmas dinner, which will be about 5000 calories for everyone or if you've got enough booze, or how am I going to get auntie Glenis off the train on the 23rd of December or whatever the f*ck it is you think is causing you a problem and stress, think about the worst-case scenario.
We have been dealing with stressful situations at work over the past few weeks, but nothing that we don't always deal with in relation to running a business or trying to be the people that we're trying to be, and so I'm trying to encourage my guys to think about the worst thing that could happen.
I have stared at the worst thing that could happen several times, survived, and moved on.
And so, if you can catastrophise and think of the worst thing that could happen (we might not have a turkey on Christmas Day, who gives a f*ck? You can just phone Deliveroo) and you realise that you can overcome the worst thing quite easily with just a little bit of imagination and curiosity.
Then, you can deal with the day-to-day nonsense because it's never the worst thing.
The process of catastrophisation should be used a lot in December because you'll probably get to January and maybe wish you'd done it in a slightly better way than you did.
So, why not just do it that way in the first place?
Blog Post Number - 3651
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