Navigating Anxiety: Lessons from Dr. Myron Golden's TEDx Talk
Dr. Myron Golden's TEDx Talk, "The Master Key to Influence," has been viewed by over 1.1 million people, indicating its popularity and value. I highly recommend watching it, as it offers valuable insights.
In my own experience:
I found the video compelling and watched it multiple times, reflecting on Dr. Golden's words. It became clear that, despite my generally positive outlook, I sometimes experienced excessive worry. Dr. Golden's discussion helped me pinpoint the underlying causes of my worries and differentiate between necessary and unnecessary concerns.
This newfound awareness encouraged me to pay closer attention to my emotions.
I noticed that while excitement often drove me towards my goals, fear occasionally acted as a barrier, hindering my progress.
I share my experience because I believe it could benefit others in managing their worries and anxieties.
I've also created a simplified chart to help you grasp the essence of this remarkable video.
A key takeaway from the talk was the importance of believing in one's goals. This mindset played a crucial role in my accomplishments in 2023, and I plan to uphold it in 2024.
Having absorbed Dr. Golden's insights, how do you handle anxiety? Share your strategies for personal and professional growth.
Here are a few impactful quotes from Dr. Golden's TEDx talk that resonate strongly and deserve a lasting place in our minds:
“Procrastination is always a symptom of a problem. And the symptom that procrastination is a problem of, it's the problem of anxiety.”
“What is the master key to influence? Human beings are singularly motivated. People do things for one reason and one reason only and that is because they feel like it.”
“Frames create focus. That frame has a positive side and a negative side because everything has a positive side and everything has a negative side.”
“When we put that frame around it, then that frame is going to cause us to manufacture a belief. And that belief is going to be manifested either as faith or it's going to be manifested as doubt.”
“Faith and doubt are both beliefs. Faith is belief in the outcome I desire. Doubt is belief in the outcome I don't desire.”
“So this belief travels down into our heart, and that focus on our head travels down into our heart, and it creates this thing called a feeling in our heart. That feeling in our heart is why we do everything.”
“What is emotion? E-motion is energy in motion. That's what a feeling is. And the feeling is also the energy that causes you to be in motion or the energy that inhibits you from being in motion.”
“What is anticipation? Anticipation is the energy I get when the outcome I expect is desirable to me.”
“Anxiety is the thief of your dreams.”
“And when you learn how to create more anticipation in people than you do anxiety, they will start saying yes instead of saying no.”
“What is anxiety? Anxiety is wasting present energy on a future outcome that's undesirable to me.”
“How do I know it's not fear? Because fear is caution over a real and present danger. If there is no real and present danger, there can be no fear.”
“If you could paint a clear and mental picture of the outcome you desire as a direct result of the thing you need to do… If you can see that as the ultimate outcome and that’s going to happen and if you could get yourself in your heart to believe that you would take every action in that direction.”
“What happens is we get a focus in our head that creates a feeling in our heart when the feeling in our heart is anticipation it energizes us… when the feeling of our heart is anxiety it robs us of the energy to do the thing.”
“When we focus on the outcome we desire and we have faith that gives us anticipation that’s the energy the function in our hand is called power not only do we have the energy and the power to do the thing it is impossible for us not to do the thing when we have anticipation we get a really really bad case of I can't help it."
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