Build (psychological) Safety for yourself
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Under 5 minutes, get a list of field-tested strategies to build safety for yourself and reduce your triggers
Build safety for yourself
Summary: Under 5 minutes, get a list of field-tested strategies to build safety for yourself and reduce your triggers
Main Outcome: You avoid or reduce the impact of your triggers (Reptilian Brain) and the resulting stress and fears; you feel better!
Top Benefit(s): Higher threshold for your triggers (so lower triggers less often); less stress; more authenticity, confidence and influence especially with others and under pressure
Next Steps: Test each strategy 2X+ in the next 14 calendar days then decide to adjust/anchor/drop
Duration: <5Â minutes.
Target Audience: Anybody willing to reduce stress and anxiety and enjoy their day more
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Summary: Strategies for reducing workplace anxiety and creating a secure environment for all employees
Main Outcome: Reduced workplace anxiety
Top Benefit(s): Improved overall mental health and productivity
Next Steps: Implement stress-reduction techniques and monitor their effectiveness
Time to Complete: 30 minutes
Target Audience: All employees, Mental health advocates
Why it works
Why it works 
Before:
When we ask our clients about safety and its impact on stress and triggers, at first they usually don’t relate that much…For them, it is all about forcing a change in their environment and spending more time, and money on it. But when they understand that 1) most of their anxiety, stress, fears, and inability to deliver their “Should” is driven by their Reptilian Brain triggering because it believes your Survival is at risk and that 2) Safety is the main driver to get it out of Survival Mode then they pay much more attention to Safety and usually are eager to understand how to build more of it.
After:
This post is meant to propose practical strategies that under 5 minutes can increase your feeling and level of safety.
Of course, winning 50 M$ at the lottery would build a lot of safety but the strategies we propose are meant to be 100% under your control!
With safety, less trigger for less time, therefore, less stress, more focus with more lightness so you genuinely enjoy the present without worrying.
Top Strategies to build safety for yourself
For more strategies and examples for each strategy, refer to the attachment!
TO DO
Set a 5 minute timer
Pick one of the proposed strategies
Follow script
Focus on how you feel below your throat as this is the language of safety (Reptilian Brain)
Focus on the incremental and relative change for your emotions: it is more a marathon than a sprint
Act on it to anchor the memory at body level for a stickier habit
NOT DO
Stay in your head! (Safety is an emotion therefore to be found in your guts and heart)
Spend too much time preparing… the value is in the doing and the emotional experience
Don’t disqualify it yet if I don’t feel a major change after the first time
Multi-task when I do any of the strategies
Cancel or postpone them because they are less priorities than work or others (I already did that for years with no great success)
Deny or play down the power of my Reptilian Brain (remember it controls most of my stress)
Example
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Your next 2 weeks stepsÂ
Start NOW or schedule your first try:
- Apply TO DO right away (<30 minutes)
- Once done, decide your commitment for the next 2 weeks
- How are you feeling right after? Compared to before? What was the value for you?
- What to adjust for you to commit for 2 weeks?
- Visualize the next time you apply it and how you would like to feel
- Celebrate that you have tried something new
Build your habit (-> more practice -> more results)
- Model: After [OTHER CURRENT HABIT] and at/when [TIME], I will [NEW HABIT] in [LOCATION].
- Example: When I sit at my desk for the first time in the morning, I set a timer for 5 minutes, I visualize myself completing one strategy and feeling good about it; then I create a timeslot in my calendar with the details about this strategy; I read them and visualize myself practicing the strategy and feeling safer and less stress as a result.
- Print your sticky habit
Total time:
6 X 5 min = 30m in 2 weeks
How you measure success:Â
Have applied at least 6X times in the next 2 weeks
What value you can expect:Â
Feel safer; Less stress or internal noise; You can enjoy what’s next in the present with lightness
How to get started:Â
Print and fill your Habit template then apply right away
With more time
Apply more often
Insightful? Potential positive changes for you?
What are you willing to commit as next steps?
Meet The Author
Ludo Pasquereau
The Founder of Wiser Sooner Coaching
Founder of Wiser Sooner Coaching, Ludo is an ICF Professional Coach (PCC) with over 25 years of experience in leadership roles for project management and business development in engineering-focused industries. Most of Ludo's clients develop the skills and confidence to improve their performance and be
more authentic under pressure, at work or at home.
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