Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It's your host, Nees Showbo. This is another episode of bars where I break down something powerful from either a song that I heard or a book. All right.

Listen, I know you can relate. Sometimes when I begin work, you know, even exercising, I'll do the same thing. I find myself putting a lot of

emphasis on like certain things, small things, like, you know, cleaning my desktop, you know, making

sure my desk is nice and tidy in an order. You know, sometimes I'll even tidy up the gym

before I exercise. And I'll kind of like,

it's a form of procrastination, right? Kind of like putting things off. And I'm trying to do all the

quote-unquote right things. Even sometimes when I have a hard time sleeping, which has actually

been happening a lot more than it usually does.

I find myself that I try, I find myself trying all these different things, but nothing really works.

So I'll put like, you know, some meditation tracks on.

I'll make sure I turn off on my screens and, you know, this and that, humidifiers and lavender smells,

vitamins. And then when it all fails, some NyQuil, and that shit don't even work.

And I think we could all relate to this at some point or another because anxiety is a real thing.

Anxiety will come over and we'll find ourselves trying to distract ourselves or cure our anxiety with all of these little tools and tricks.

Anxiety reflects our desires. We have these goals. We have some things that we want and that's expected

a certain degree of anxiety our anxiety causes us to focus on the future we looking into

head and it's almost like this persistent wondering a persistent doubt am i ready you know what if

this happens what am i going to do if this

happens? It's a lot of uncertainty, right? And we all do different things when the anxiety hits.

But what I want to do is highlight a very particular habit, especially a habit of high performers

that we do when there's anxiety and

we're kidding ourselves. It actually doesn't work. But I want to break down what it is first.

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