You might be wondering why I have that unfinished business stuff here, but the reality is that there is no greater feeling than finishing your unfinished business. I get this whenever I am asked about finishing my business in life. It is one of the highest pleasurable feelings in the world.
There is something about the idea of finishing something that can be so satisfying.
I think this is because it is such an intrinsic part of our lives. To finish something means it is done. It doesn’t mean you are happy about it. It certainly doesn’t mean you are satisfied with it. It doesn’t mean you are good at it. It doesn’t mean you are perfect at it. It certainly doesn’t mean you are perfect at it every single time. That’s what makes finishing a certain thing so satisfying.
This is the first part of a three-part series about how we can grow, change, and grow in our lives. It is the part that most people don’t get. In this series, I’m going to talk about what it is to grow, change, and grow.
When we think about growing, we often think about it in terms of physical growth. We think about the body changing size and shape and growing new cells in the process. But it is often more about finding new ways to deal with the old ways. My friend and fellow author and professor of psychology Dr. Michael Baier (a.k.a. The Miser) is one of the most articulate and thoughtful people I know.
I don’t know Dr. Baier personally, but he seems to be the kind of person who is willing to take the time to explain things to me that I didn’t fully understand. He has written extensively on anxiety and the psychological ramifications of it from two different perspectives. First, he has written in an interview with me about how the brain deals with fear and anxiety.
The second perspective comes from Dr. Baier and is known as the “fear-inference perspective.” In the fear-inference perspective, the brain takes the experience of anxiety as a signal to think about what it would be like if it was real. If the brain then had the ability to create a situation in which the anxiety was not real, the brain would be able to take that experience and, in the absence of any other information, would create an anxiety reaction.
I’m not sure I completely understand this perspective. It seems to mean that the brain will not accept that it is experiencing anxiety but then will have to create an anxiety situation to get rid of it. One of the things I do know with certainty is that when fear comes into our brain, it will cause us to experience anxiety.
This is a pretty common response to anything that makes us feel insecure. The brain will then start creating a situation that is meant to confuse, disorient, and put us in a state of anxiety. The thing is that anxiety is a state of mind. It’s not a physical sensation or an emotion. It is an emotion that causes you to feel anxious.
It’s a pretty good thing that we have a lot of information about anxiety. The first thing we know how to do is to take steps to prevent anxiety. So if we can learn how to make our anxiety less about ourselves and more about the situation we’re in, we can make ourselves less anxious. We can avoid anxiety by learning how to take steps to protect ourselves.