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Emotional drain is not laziness or weakness. It is what happens when emotional demands exceed emotional recovery for too long, and the cure is as much about what you stop doing as what you start.
The weekend isn't over, and yet your stomach is already in Monday. The Sunday scaries are anticipation doing its worst, and they respond well to a few specific, small changes.
The first number on the table quietly pulls every later estimate toward it, even when everyone knows it's arbitrary. Here's how anchoring works and how to keep it from steering your decisions.
The thing you said in a meeting in 2019 has no business living rent-free in your head at 2am. Here's why embarrassment lingers so much longer than it should, and how to actually quiet it.
