{"id":30,"date":"2019-09-29T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:15:46","slug":"list-your-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/posts\/list-your-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"List Your Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stress is a part of life, but not a fun one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One simple tip I\u2019ve come up with is to write everything down that you\u2019re anxious about in a list. For me this is a Google Keep list, but it can be in any format that you can add to and cross things off of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list will serve three functions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>A place to write your fears down to try to get them out of your head. Freeing you (ideally) from the mental load of keeping it your mind.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A place to review. If you\u2019re feeling anxious, but can\u2019t determine why, try consulting the list. For me identifying the underlying cause instead of having an ambiguous feeling is helpful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you\u2019re reviewing your list, cross off items that are no longer relevant or you no longer fear. Over time this will accumulate a greater number of past fears than current ones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For me point <strong>3.<\/strong> is the most valuable. Having kept up this list for over 3 years has allowed me to gain perspective on the many many things that were dire or nerve-wracking at the time, but are the distant past now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything still on my list will be crossed off in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stress is a part of life, but not a fun one. One simple tip I\u2019ve come up with is to write everything down that you\u2019re anxious about in a list. For me this is a Google Keep list, but it can be in any format that you can add to and cross things off of. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kylekelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}