Nina

Don’t.

Embrace it. The more you fight it, the stronger it gets. Feel it fully and then act despite of it. Don’t let it hold you back.

Know that all that it is is a feeling. It’s not a real threat. It’s a feeling that doesn’t define you. Separate yourself and your worth from your automatic thoughts and feelings. They were put in your mind by the last TV commercial, your parents, or even your best girlfriend.

Anxiety often is a result of perceived pressure or expectations – mostly from yourself (because even when you think that it comes from someone or something, we ultimately decide if we allow it into our lives). Free yourself from these expectations and replace them with love and understanding towards yourself. Know that you do the best you can and that it’s okay to “fail” or to “disappoint”. You weren’t born to be perfect, or to live another person’s life, but to live your own with all the good and the bad feelings that come with it.

On a similar note: Take care of yourself or try some of my hacks against anxiety.

A real master is first a master of themselves, and only second a master of a certain skill or art. Committing to mastery means to never arrive at something, but to strive to develop and master your field every single day.

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”

Epectitus

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”

Thomas Mann

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. Mastery demands all of a person.”

Albert Einstein

“All of your formal education would be irrelevant if at the same time you did not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

Benjamin Franklin

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”

Michelangelo

“Mastery passes often for egotism.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe