Pick your path: stress, guilt, fear

What problems are you battling with right now? If it's one of these three things, I have some useful stuff that might help.

1. Managing stress
2. Battling guilt
3. Overcoming fear

(But if it's setting boundaries, making hard decisions, or channelling focus, check out last week's post.)

Managing stress

Stress is the modern condition. My right eye keeps twitching.

• This kick-ass article throws all your band-aid solutions to the curb and gets real on eight ways to manage stress sustainably. Read it.
• Charlie Katz interviewed me on Medium about leading through turbulent times. It's a long read but it's not bad.
• Shane Hatton and I talked about totally losing our shit - have a listen.
• This 7-minute What's On Your Mind? episode from the archives is a good chat about coping strategies and how we sabotage ourselves when we're under pressure - and this one about stress is pretty good too.

Battling guilt

Guilt is such an unhelpful feeling, isn't it? It's like: you did your best, but that's still a problem, so you're a bad person anyway. Ugh.

Here's a couple of relevant articles:

• It's OK to upset people
• 5 ways to banish the guilt monster

Or skip the reading and go straight to this kick-ass workbook - it's a killer resource for smashing guilt, stress, distraction, and all kinds of other annoying feelings.

Overcoming fear

Being a person is scary and hard. Fear is a nightmare because it's not even real. It's just an imaginary worry that you can't even fight in the real world. 

Here are a few articles you might find useful:

• Upgrade your worries - because if you're going to have some, you may as well have good ones.
• How to handle uncertainty - because it's scary
• Angry people - on the relationship between anger, fear and uncertainty

Actually, I just got halfway through writing this Wednesday Wisdom, and then decided we needed a whole article on this topic itself.

Here you are. Try this.

I hope that helps with your problems this week!

Til next week,

A