Give Your Brain a Better Offer

Dear Friends, 

What is a simple way to immediately shift from an anxious state to a more effortless one? 

The answer is to give our brain a better offer.

This is the discovery made by Dr. Judson Brewer, my guest on this week's episode of the What's Essential podcast.

Dr. Brewer is an addiction psychiatrist and author of the book Unwinding Anxiety. He suggests we can train our brain not to react to things like worry, fear, and frustration with anxiety, but instead to foster curiosity. 

Curiosity offers our brain a better reward, it’s a better offer, and puts us in a state of openness, helping us to think, plan, and prepare. 

Here’s an easy way to cultivate curiosity:  

The next time you begin to feel anxious, fearful, or frustrated, stop and ask yourself these questions:

1. How do I feel right now?
2. Why am I feeling this way?
3. What reward do I get from this feeling?

By training our brain to react to negative feelings with curiosity, we offer our brain a better reward and harness its power to produce better outcomes.

For more on this, join me this week for the What’s Essential podcast.

With gratitude, 

Greg 

p.s. Join us for a live, partner webinar on March 23 at 11 am MT, with Justin Hale, co-creator of VitalSmarts’ Getting Things Done® Training, to discuss my brand-new book, Effortless. In this free, 45-min webinar, we will share principles for getting the right things done effortlessly. You’ll learn:

• How to make the essential tasks become the easiest ones.
• How to solve hard problems using one powerful question.
• How to use the GTD methodology to get the right things done with less effort.

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