

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: With Dr. Sherry Walling
Apr 24, 2025
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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.
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.
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.