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Dan Rosen:
And yet anxiety is not bad. Anxiety is good, it's positive and powerful we just need the right amount of it at the right time.

Dan Rosen, author of the book Just Enough Anxiety…

Anxiety is the energy, the life force, it's what helps us solve problems, it's what helps us stretch into the future. So, in a competitive world, an organization without anxiety or a life without anxiety is a life that isn't being lived.

And effective leaders understand this, says Dan.

I remember a conversation that I had with the CEO of Travelocity. Here's a billion dollar company, Michelle Peluso is operating in twenty countries and she said to me, " I have to make friends with anxiety and if I'm not anxious enough, I'm not taking enough risks." And I think that's what I find, that the very best leaders are saying when it comes to just enough anxiety.

Just as too much anxiety is bad, so is too little.

I think we move back and forth between too little anxiety (which is the face of complacency) and too much of anxiety (which is panic in the face of fear). But just enough anxiety is where all the energy is. It's what helps us build great teams, it's what builds winning organizations, it helps us learn, it's our confidence. And just enough anxiety is the positive and forceful force in our life.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.