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1. Learn to be positive with failure
Phrases like ‘failure is not an option’ are quite unrealistic and, naturally, stress-inducing. Although repeated failure isn’t ideal, instances of failure are likely to happen in your working life. What matters the most is getting through that and powering on. Whether you’re applying for a new job or asking for a promotion, you have to think of the other side for not getting what you want just as much as getting it. Accepting failure in a healthy way will help you learn instead of derailing you.
2. Learn to deal with anxiety
Acknowledge the anxiety and separate it between the things that can cause you physical harm and those that can’t.
3. Learn to be okay with being uncomfortable
Learn to come out of your comfort zone and deal with situations in which you are not comfortable. There will be times when you’ll not always have the desired circumstances so learn to adapt yourself to those situations.
4. Have more confidence
Your brain will at times talk you out of doing something uncomfortable because it wants you to stay in your comfort zone. The way to defeat that is to be uncomfortable and take risks, so that your mind resets and acknowledges that the thing it thought you couldn’t do, it turned out you were perfectly capable of doing.
5. Try to do better
There’s always space for self-improvement, and the ‘challenging yourself’ part needs to keep going always. The important thing is to look for ways to get better, so that less and less fazes you as time goes on.