How to Stop Making Decisions Based on Fear

How do you make decisions? Is it from a deep place of knowing and intuition? Or is it merely out of fear? Making big decisions (or even small ones) can understandably be stressful and anxiety-inducing. But being stuck in fear-based thinking is a prescription for misery - and for living a life doing stuff you don’t actually want to do. This week, Henri Stevenson, Executive Coach and Shapes trainer, joins us to discuss how to stop making decisions based on fear and anxiety. We break down how many of us fall into this pattern and then share simple strategies to get our egos out of the way and base our thinking on freedom and love.If you want to stop making decisions based on fear and live in alignment with what you REALLY want, listen to our full conversation in this episode of You Are Not a Frog.Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:Discover how to tell the difference between decisions made from intuition versus fear.Learn how to stop making decisions purely through fear of complaints or criticisms.Find out why being self-indulgent is anything ‘but’.Episode Highlights[05:41] Henri’s Journey to Finding a Different Operating System[10:40] What Ego Is[14:18] Why We Pay More Attention to Fear-Based Thoughts[19:11] Investing in Your Self-Growth[25:05] The Bottom Line of Self-Indulgence[36:52] How to Decide From a Better Mental Place[38:18] How to Get Over a Fear Hump[39:44] Techniques to Overcome Fear[43:33] What to Do When You’re Completely Overwhelmed[48:33] Practising Self-Compassion[49:53] Henri’s Top Three TipsResourcesConnect with Henri Stevenson: Website | LinkedInEpisode 126: Using Nature to Answer Your Big Questions With Henri StevensonMy Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, PhDDownload our free ‘Just Say No’ toolkitFind out more about how you can come to our 2023 Off Air Off Grid Retreat! Sign up for Henri's one-day Nourish Retreat happening in PAUS. Cambridgeshire on the 29th of June 2023!THRIVE Weekly PlannerSign up

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The podcast for GPs, hospital doctors and other professionals in high-stakes, high-stress jobs who want to thrive rather than just survive. You studied for years, you’re really good at what you do but you’ve noticed that you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, overworked and under-resourced. You may be comparing yourself to a frog in boiling water - the heat has built up so slowly that you haven’t noticed the extra-long days becoming the norm. You may feel on the edge and trapped in the very job that you’ve spent years working towards. Here’s the problem, frogs only have two choices; stay and be boiled alive, or jump out of the pan. The good news is that you are not a frog. You have many more choices than you think you do. You don’t have to quit, and nor should stress and burnout be inevitable. It is possible to be master of your own destiny, to craft your work life and career so that you can thrive even in the most difficult of situations. There are simple changes you can make which will make a huge difference to your stress levels and help you enjoy life again. Your host is Dr Rachel Morris, GP turned Executive Coach and Specialist in Resilience at Work who knows what it’s like to feel like an exhausted frog. In the podcast, she’ll be talking to friends, colleagues and experts all who have an interesting take on resilience for clever people in high-stakes, high-stress jobs so that together you can take back control to beat stress and burnout, survive and thrive.