Author Recap: How Positive Psychology Reduces your Anxiety

Well, Ches, another interesting guest, another good tool out there for people to try out. This will take two minutes. So tell me a little bit about what you took away, lots to take away in there, positive psychology. Mark gave us a lot of tools. What were some of the big takeaways for you? You know, it keeps coming back to me again and again, this idea of having a regular practice a cadence, you know that you develop a habit of Taking those two minutes, you know It's like a lot of things if you can just get into that rotation if you can just get into that cadence Over time it builds up. I like this Look, you go work out one time, you know come back with a six-pack, right? You gotta invest over time and even if it's it starts with just two minutes and as we got into it He said well, there's two minutes here in two minutes there and pretty sure pretty soon. You got four minutes you know, you're you're building that resiliency I I Particularly liked his focus as you might guess with the work you and I do It was really focused on gratitude a lot of it You know writing down things and and having your your three at the end of the day and so on. But there's only like a journal that people could buy right now just, you know, something to give you a gratitude like habit. Habit, that's like for like maybe 90 days. Yeah, yeah. So we're alluding to the Gratitude Habit by Gostin and Milton, right? Gostin and Milton. So yeah, big takeaway, get in the habit of doing things. And the other thing is he talked about sharing it with other people as well, which I think is really important. You publicize it, right? That's a great point too, is yeah, if we have goals and we just keep them to ourselves, they're really secrets, you know? And they're not really goals. So yeah, tell people, look, I want to do this, I want to do that, I love that. One of the things that Mark told us just as he was leaving after we were wrapping up there was that, you know, this great idea of negativity screams at us, positivity whispers. And it is such a powerful thought is that everything in our lives right now, we're right around the US election, boy, there's negativity in every avenue, your newsfeed, they know that you'll click bait on negative stories. Positivity is harder to find, but it is more powerful and this is where mark was talking about we have to rewire the the circuits in our brains create positive feelings and that's where positive psychology gets into find the meaning in your life you know be grateful for the good that's all about positive psychology and if we fight that negative screaming and listen for the whispers we're gonna have a happier life my last takeaway from mark was his morning ritual. I thought that was really lovely. Get up before the family, find 30 or 60 minutes just to really do what brings you joy, whether it's reading or walking the dog or whatever it might be that just really gets your day started in a good way. I find with myself, if I've had a late night or whatever and I sleep past that, all of a sudden I feel like I'm playing catch-up all day. I haven't had that time to really sit and meditate and read and say my prayers and so on. I thought that was a really good reminder, start your day with just some me time. Yeah, yeah. Positive me time. Find out what works for you. What a great conversation with Mark today. We want to thank our producer Brent Klein, our booking agent Christine Lawrence, who helps find amazing guests, and to all of you listened in. If you like the podcast, please share it, let others know about it, and we'd also love you to visit thecultureworks.com, where you can get some free resources to help you and your team culture thrive. Yeah, follow us on LinkedIn. We've got a wonderful gratitude journal we publish twice a month. It's all free. We've got hundreds of thousands of people literally that subscribe. It's been really fun and we love to speak to audiences all around the world whether it's virtual or it's in person or just over the phone. I'm kidding. On topics of culture, teamwork and resilience, give us a call. We'd love to speak to you at your event and of course the Anxiety at Work book is available in Audible, lit video, bookstores everywhere. It's easy to find. There's a lot of great information there as well. We hope you'll take advantage of that. Other than that, Adrian, did I miss anything? You got plenty of work. I think you captured it all, grabbed the book, Anxiety at Work, and yeah, let us know what we can do to help you. And until next time, we wish you the best of mental health. Thank you.