The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of drastic changes in everybody’s lives, but one thing we don’t talk about as much as we should is the impact it has on our mental health. In this episode, we have Adrian Gostick to talk about how to deal with anxiety at work.
Adrian Gostick is a best-selling author and one of the authors of The Carrot Principle. He has provided some of the world’s largest organizations support on how to manage change, lead employee engagement, and create high-performance cultures.
Listen to this episode to learn more about how you can help your team remove the stigma on mental health and successfully overcome anxiety at work!
Quotables
“Financial success is great, but we also have to make sure that we’re successful within ourselves.”
“Ten people can accomplish a heck of a lot more compared to one, no matter how brilliant that one is.”
“With the pandemic, all of a sudden, the anxiety and stress many people were feeling in private became very public because we were all feeling it.”
“Now what we’re finding is that about a third of all Americans have a full-blown anxiety disorder and more than 42% of people in their twenties. This is an epidemic that we’re still not talking about more than we should.”
“We gotta take better care of ourselves and we also gotta take much better care of our teams way more than before, and start to bring up this mental health aspect.”
“If you wanna become successful financially and as a leader, start everyday with yourself.”
“Find a way to start your day in a positive way.”
“When my leader cares, I am actually going to care about what they care about.”
“What we can do is talk about work issues in a way that shows “I’m here for you and I care”.”
“We’re not asking for managers to become therapists, by any means. We’re asking them to be empathetic.”
“Breathe in four, hold in four, release four.”
“The human mind isn’t capable of holding two thoughts at a moment. If I am grateful for what I have, what’s happened, what is going on right now, I can’t be anxious at the moment.”