So, how many individual challenges from the Great Anxiety Challenge did you successfully complete? Even if you only managed to “pass” one challenge, give yourself a round of applause — those five challenges are pretty tough! Since each challenge is designed to force you to step outside of your comfort zone, it’s important to look at what you were supposedly to actually gain from the Great Anxiety Challenge as a whole.
Breaking The Comfort Zone
Getting out of your comfort zone can be painful, but the benefits are s worth it in the long run. By stepping out of your comfort zone you get to experience a new world fille dwith opportunities that may not reach you while you’re in your comfort zone. In other words, it changes your perspective in order for you to see something new. That is always worth exploring.
Creating New Connections
The majority of the challenges all revolved around dealing with new social connections. Building new social contacts has personal, professional, and deep psychological benefits. The support groups you will use later in use often start with that single, awkward conversation that you were afraid to begin in the first place. That alone is enough reason to go out and try again to build new connections.
Learning More About Yourself
The last real benefit you should have gained from the Great Anxiety Challenge is new knowlege about yourself. All of life is really about learning more about yourself and what brings you happiness and joy. In order to fight anxiety, we have to step back and truly go on a journey to learn more about ourselves. Once we have that new information, we can develop strategies for an even better life.
Next post, talk we’ll a little more about self-esteem and self-acceptance, two very important keys to a healthy life without anxiety getitng in the way!