The Anxious Achiever

CONCLUSION

Find Joy

Being anxious all the time robs you of joy. And the capacity for joy is essential to your leadership (and your life!). Without joy, you can’t find hope for the future or tap into a deep well of innovation and creativity. When you’re joyful, you want to bring others along with you—and they can see your vision and want to join the journey.

But unmanaged anxiety keeps you stuck in imagining, and then reimagining, a scary future.

I’m talking about the kind of anxiety that is with you day in and out, whispering that danger lies just around the corner. When we’re obsessing about danger, how can we possibly let ourselves be free to feel joy, or lead with any kind of effectiveness?

While writing this book, I had the worst mental ...