Demystifying Mental Toughness 296 How to Take Control of Your Emotions: Building Your Personal Playbook for Confidence and Calm
Oct 24, 2025
In this discussion, anxiety and fear coach Matt Young shares insights on mastering emotional control to foster lasting confidence and calmness. He challenges the notion of merely managing emotions, proposing that anxiety and fear are learned traits with purpose. Matt outlines how to create a personal emotional playbook with practical routines to combat procrastination and handle stress. Additionally, he emphasizes the importance of ownership, emotional mastery, and surrounding oneself with positive influences for sustained mental resilience.
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Emotions Are Things You Do
- Emotions are actions we perform, not possessions we carry.
- Matt Young reframes emotions as learned responses we can understand and change.
Anxiety Serves A Purpose
- Anxiety is a learned trait that fills a role: keeping you away from discomfort.
- Understand why an emotion shows up to regain control and remove its job.
Build An Emotional Playbook
- Replace anxiety's role by intentionally enhancing desired emotions like confidence.
- Build an emotional playbook that upgrades feelings so unwanted traits become unnecessary.