In The Trenches

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: With Dr. Sherry Walling

Apr 24, 2025
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INSIGHT

Managing Ambition's Shadow Side

  • Ambition has a shadow side where constant achievement seeking can narrow self-evaluation to business goals only.
  • Expanding self-worth evaluation beyond business (family, health, hobbies) keeps ambition an asset not a liability.
ADVICE

Control Anxiety with Metacognition

  • Manage anxiety by distinguishing controllable worries from uncontrollable ones and acting only on what you can influence.
  • Use metacognition to objectively evaluate worries and decide which to release.
ANECDOTE

Reflection Reduces Anxiety

  • Reflecting on past anxieties showed most never happened and the one that did was manageable.
  • This realization helps reduce the weight of catastrophic thinking.
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