3327: Deal With Anxiety By Making a “Dread” List by Tonya Lester on Resiliency & Taking Action

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3327: Tonya Lester shares a transformative strategy for dealing with anxiety by creating a "dread list" of all the tasks you've been avoiding. By confronting these sources of anxiety, seeking support, and making the process easier, you can alleviate the heavy burden of unresolved issues, improve your mental well-being, and regain control of your life. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.tonyalester.com/blog/deal-with-anxiety-by-making-a-dread-list Quotes to ponder: "So often when you finally share your secret you are met with so much compassion, validation, or even loving bewilderment, that the volume of the problem is turned down by 50 percent just by virtue of saying it out loud." "Unfinished business creates open loops of anxiety that slowly drain you of energy and contentment, and hurt your ability to focus and be present." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is optimal living daily. Deal with anxiety by making a dread list by Tony
0:06.8	Lester of Tony Lester.com. I'm your narrator Justin Molick reading you articles
0:11.6	every single day of the year including holidays so that
0:14.7	you and I can both take a step in the right direction and have just a bit more positivity in our
0:19.5	day really does add up. And with that let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:29.0	Deal with anxiety by making a dread list by Tony Lester of Tony Lester.com.
0:37.0	The fall after I finished college I moved to New York City to study acting.
0:42.0	A year in life was a blur of acting classes, auditions, and working as an administrative assistant for a scientist.
0:50.0	One day I received a call from my former university informing me that I still had an incomplete on my transcript and that if I didn't complete the coursework and get a grade turned in, I might have to retake the course. I assured them I would look into this,
1:05.8	set down the phone, and panic set in. My degree was listed on my resume. Everyone in my life, including my parents who had paid for my education,
1:15.2	believed I was a college graduate. How could I have let this happen?
1:20.0	It affirmed every negative thing I believed about myself.
1:24.0	I'm spacey, I am irresponsible, I am incompetent.
1:29.0	The truth was, while I was pretty spacey, I had turned in all the coursework. I had taken an incomplete because of a family emergency right at the end of the semester, but had turned in the final project two weeks later. The professor hadn't turned in the grade.
1:46.4	After skipping the graduation ceremony, might I have questioned why I didn't receive my diploma
1:51.5	in the mail as expected?
1:53.6	Yes.
1:54.7	Was it my job to follow up in prod the professor?
1:57.4	Well, no question.
1:59.0	But also paralyzed by my dread around dealing with this, so focused on what it said about my character that I just
2:05.8	shut down and proceeded to do nothing to solve this problem for a year.
2:10.4	Okay, 18 months. Have you had the experience of avoiding a problem all day, only to stare at
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