Kill Bill (Featuring Jacqueline Stewart)

The War Against Anxiety

Identification:

Ask yourself ...

• What is it? What are my triggers? (If identifiable)

• How does it impact me when I am alone?

• How does it impact me when I am with others?

"Victory over Anxiety" written by Dr. Charles F. Stanley shout out First Baptist Church in Atlanta - I’ve never been inside but I hear that’s where he be at BUT! Moving right along ... Stanley brilliantly outlines the negative effects of Anxiety in the following ways:

• Anxiety divides your mind. Anxiety is a distraction. Its aim is to pull you in many different directions so that you can’t concentrate or focus. And whatever divides your mind diverts your attention from important matters and clouds your focus.

• Anxiety slows your productivity. Whatever you’re doing, if you’re anxious about it, it will slow you down. If your mind is divided and preoccupied by anxiety, you can’t give your full attention and energy to what you should be focusing on.

• Anxiety affects your personal relationship with other people. We all know people who are anxiety-ridden. Every time you see these individuals, they unload the things in their lives that they’re anxious or concerned about, never really dealing with them. Their ongoing anxiety affects their relationship with everyone around them—including you.

• Anxiety leads to unwise decisions. When a person is anxious, they have a tendency to jump ahead: “If I don’t do it now, I may miss it;” “If I don’t marry him now, I’m going to miss out.” People make unwise decisions because they’re anxious about an uncertain future and missing out on opportunities that may not come again. And there are always consequences when living in this way.

• Anxiety steals your peace and joy. You can’t have joy and be full of anxiety. You can’t have peace and be full of anxiety. To have peace means to be “bound together,” whereas anxiety means to be “pulled apart.” So you can either have one or the other—but you can’t experience both.

• Anxiety is a terrible waste of time and energy. When you’re frustrated, anxious, and uncertain about things, you can’t do your best. You won’t feel your best. And this will lead to consequences you really and truly don’t want in your life.

Practical application:

1. Prioritization. Stop looking at just what the paper says. What does your person say?

Prioritizing: Mental Health

• Taking care of home

• Community: They are not for you if they are not working with you.

• Organization helps combat anxiety.

2. Align yourself spiritually

Meditation. Journal. Walk. Spend 5-15 minutes centering yourself daily.

3. Who are you connecting with? Do you have boundaries?

Take note of the energies around you ... do they even put the work in? Think C.R.E.W. (Create. Reciprocate. Elevate. Works with you. For you.) Don’t ignore the red flags. Don’t ignore the signs. Your intuition is everything.

4. Pursue Your Purpose

Put yourself in a space to succeed.

5. Stop trying to be a people pleaser

"People didn’t change on my account." This isn’t to say be a terrible person but recognize the way in which the world is moving around you. Know what works and what doesn’t.

Journal Entry:

1. How can I improve my prioritization?

2. Increased alignment looks like what for me?