Last week, I had both the honor and the privilege to hear Brené Brown speak. What impacted me the MOST about her talk actually had nothing to do with the content. It was how she showed up.
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Allow me to introduce the tripartite model. It’s a core pillar of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in psychology. It says that our beliefs/thoughts, emotions and behaviors/actions are a SYSTEM. Which means they’re interconnected. When one shifts, the others follow.
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Our thoughts aren’t neutral. More often than not, we don’t go into a situation with an open mind or positive outlook. Our thoughts skew negative. So no. It’s not just you.
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Did you know that not all stress is bad stress? That there’s such a thing as good stress, too? That’s right. And chances are, you’re already doing it. You just don’t think of it as stress.
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Two words. That’s it. “Thank” and “you”. Not only does it take two seconds to do, but the effects are long lasting. It’s the dream scenario: Minimal effort upfront, followed by a huge payoff.
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For the first two decades of life, we devote the majority of our time to learning. To absorbing knowledge. To broadening our horizons. To complimenting our growing bodies with an expanding, curious mind. But as we get older, there’s a shift. Learning morphs from joyous and inquisitive into undesirable, embarrassing and taxing.
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