From the course: Preparing Yourself for Change
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Stabilizing moves you can use immediately
From the course: Preparing Yourself for Change
Stabilizing moves you can use immediately
You don't just wake up one day with the belief in your own capability. You build that belief over time, topping it up every day with small, deliberate actions. This is self-efficacy, and it's an immediately stabilizing power-up through change because it helps us build the belief that we will know how to manage, no matter how overwhelmed we feel by change around us. Research shows that there are many actions we can take to build self-efficacy. Here are three you can use to find stability right now. The first is, reframe any threat you feel as a challenge. A shift from, this is happening to me, to, this is something I can work with, changes how we deploy our energy around a task entirely. In a threat state, you feel outmatched by the demand before you. In a challenge state, sure, you see the demands, but you believe you have the resources to match them. You remember challenges you've faced in the past and borrow small actions that moved you forward then. The second is to deliberately…
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