Mini Motivation #70 - Have you ever got woken up by panic attacks?

Some nights you don't wake up because of a shocking sound or sudden movement, nor by the need to empty your bladder or the chimes of your alarm clock. You just sprang out of bed, breath quicken, heart pacing, and your palms could be sweaty.

No, it's no nightmare, because bad dreams leave you after a while. And with bad dreams, you can even go back to sleep still.

But if you wake up with a panic, or anxiety attack, the fear hardly leaves you, at least for long enough to rob you of your sleep. Even when you try to return to your sleep, the thoughts will stir you awake, fist clenched, more sighs than breath.

So, have your experience those sudden attacks?

I do. As a matter of fact, I got them often. Still do, actually. Either due to financial problems, or over commitment of work. Recently, it has been the latter. The sense of uncertainty just stressed me up, tighten my chest, hijacking the function otherwise fulfilled by the alarm clock.

So far, the way I found most effective to beat it, is to review my plan, or to make one if one is absent. Taking out the calendar and carving proper time slots in them helps a lot. It gives me some form of certainty knowing that there's a startegy to end it all, and to put my mind at ease.

Someone once told me that while fear is in the absence of courage, stress is in the absence of strategy. When you do not know how to solve a problem, you get stressed out. That happened. However, the moment you find a solution, or someone recommended you one, do you realise that despite not executing the strategy yet, your mind is a lot peaceful and calm? You have the map, and even without taking the first step, you will in fact feel a lot better.

Such is the nature if the mind.

What about you? If you have anxiety attacks due to workload, what do you usually do?

Mini Motivation is my own daily strategy to inspire myself. Mostly 3 minute reads.

From Motivation, we gain Inspiration. From Inspiration, we achieve Momentum. And the rest, they say, is history.

Hope it helps nudge you a bit too in the right direction.

Oh it did? Let me know in the comments, and of course an upvote would be a nice motivation for me. :)

Stay awesome!

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