Are you in a tangle?
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Are you in a tangle?
1 key takeaway:
Next time you are faced with uncertainty or change, follow the four 4P’s:
Next time you are faced with uncertainty or change, follow the four 4P’s:
- Pause and collect yourself.
- Process by naming your emotion.
- Plan by assessing your skills, capabilities, and resources.
- Proceed , treating your next steps as experiments and adjusting as you go.
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Working in this way loosens the knots in the mind, and it also introduces a space so that you can start moving between anxieties and distractions and not struggle with them so much. Just staying with the questions, life grows calmer
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