“Action is the antidote to despair.” -Joan Baez
Activity kills anxiety.
As Jordan Belfort preached in “Wolf of Wallstreet” about any bad financial or emotional situation: good, pick up the phone!
Winston Churchill noted that if you are going through Hell, keep on going.
You can sit at your desk and feel bad for yourself, or you can get to work and not notice you feel bad because you are doing the things that lead to results that make you feel good.
If you just asked three people a day for Introductions, you’ll get some. Even if your language is poor right now, the action of asking will improve your ability and results, which feels good.
Hope is the opposite of despair, and hope is seeing the path and walking it out of Hell. But you need to move, to have activity and action or else you’ll just sit there feeling bad and abandoning all hope.
Do something that moves you towards success, because even the tiniest forward movement can create dopamine and additional motivation to fuel your effort and take more action.
