“Where fear is, happiness is not”
~Seneca
Fear to take action will hold you back from achieving your dreams. It’s very easy to tell someone not to be afraid, however fear is a very predictable emotion.
It is what we feel when we feel uncertain or unprepared. We feel it when we experience a sense of danger that we might lose something important to us.
Knowing that this is why we feel fear, it gives us an opportunity to identify the fear factors that hold us back from taking action and train ourselves to either overcome them or work through them.
The following exercises are designed specifically to help you feel more confident by training your nervous system not to feel extreme fear when attempting to request to telework.
Think of when you first started driving. At first you might have been nervous, but overtime you grew more confident and relaxed as you realized that there were certain rules to driving that allowed you to anticipate what would happen next and react accordingly.
Exercise 4.1: Facing your Teleworking fears
Exercise 4.2: Expressing Ideas Clearly to Overcome Resistance
Exercise 4.3: Role Playing to Overcome Situational Fears
Exercise 4.4: Dealing with Negative Self Talk
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