Josh Terry

One of the most powerful ways to reduce your anxiety is to realize that you aren’t safe and that’s okay. People are extremely capable of dealing with dangerous and terrible conditions. But they struggle when they’re unsure whether they’re in danger or not and unsure if there’s something they’re missing that they need to do…

Some people talk about how important it is to be content with what you have. And then others talk about how important it is to never be satisfied and always push yourself toward bigger goals. But if you become content with what you have. You’ll stop growing and you won’t reach your potential. And if…

It’s easy to belittle small things. It’s easy to think that doing one tiny thing repeatedly is constricting your freedom, or pathetic compared to what you should be doing. But the small things are often what make the big things possible. And what’s more, is the big things are often meaningless without those small things.…

It’s easy to avoid risk so much that you make your life worse. Risk aversion is something that everyone has. It’s a desire to not take a risk. It’s a preference for more certainty in life. And taking too many risks is dangerous. We all need some degree of confidence that things will turn out…

We tend to get overwhelmed with indecision about what to do. Because we want to do everything, or we’re really attached to one thing. Either way, we put an enormous outward effort into chasing what we crave. And when someone tells us we can’t have something it makes us want to rebel and fight or…

If you’re addicted to something you’re addicted because you think you need it. We like to talk about our addictions as if they’re a terrible act of weakness that you indulge in. That you know what’s good for you but you just can’t help being bad. But that’s not what’s happening. The opioid epidemic is…

If you want to become a more capable person then stop trying to perfect something. Because your goal isn’t the thing. It’s to be better. And usually working trying to tweak something into perfection takes away the attention from the massive improvements you could be making. The more you focus on the thing the less…

Do something difficult in a measured way. Lots of self-development talks about how you need to experience difficult things to become a better person. But to say that without a measuring stick is stupid. You can’t just experience unlimited hard things. There are infinite problems you can choose to experience in life and if you…

Anxiety is addictive because boredom is intolerable. If you’re anxious, it’s often because you do things that make you anxious because you can’t handle being bored. Sitting on a chair without your phone is boring and it gives you the opportunity to have anxious thoughts you don’t like, so you pick up your phone to…