Anxiety: A killer bug to success

“That The Birds Of Worry And Care Fly Over Your Head, This You Cannot Change, But That They Build Nests In Your Hair, This You Can Prevent”

- Chinese Proverb Worry and anxiety pose as killer bugs to most people’s success. Worry and anxiety are like poisons that slow an individual from pursuing success and greatness. This killer bug is non-discriminatory in its victims and destabilizes their ability to focus in life and to have a clear emotional, mentality, spiritual and a physical desire to remain resolute in the pursuit of success.

Anxiety has the power to affect your thinking power to see positivity regardless of your age, making you apprehensive. Anxiety as a killer bug create negative pictures in the victim’s mind, which then goes a long way to limit and prevent them from seeing positivity in every positive step into achieving greatness in life by diverting, distracting, preoccupying them with pressure.

Worry becomes inevitable when people shift their focus from the positive steps to the negativity, making them feel let down in stress. Anxiety as a killer bug does not only affect our thought but attacks our emotion; destroying us from within if it is not dealt with from the onset.

Anxiety is not a respecter of anybody, status, race, gender, height or fame. This killer bug affects even the poor and has the potential to break barriers just to affect their ability to change their situations. I have noticed that, this killer bug has a pragmatic effect on its victim and limits them from achieving their goals and purpose in life by sucking their joy of pursuing purpose.

The effects of anxiety can be very devastating to one’s destiny. It effects or poses as a threat to our self-esteem, confidence and courage in the pursuit of success. This killer bug can be equated to airborne disease, which has no boundary. Therefore, we need to be aware of this bug, as we pursue success in life.

Most often, it is impossible to think clearly when our lives is flooded and choked with anxiety. One of the best things you can do to overcome or immunize yourself from this killer bug is to try and take your time out to relax your mind so as to regain energy to chase your dreams. When you are able to do this, you feel better once again and make positive decisions in life.

I have developed a clever way of dealing with my anxiety. I have noticed that, in the pursuit of success, anxiety may set in to limit or slow me down from giving my best in the things I do personally, especially my family life. I try to take some time or day off from the challenge at the moment and set my eyes on the good days in my life and the great people I had associated with in the past and create that positive moment, in order to reprogram my mind from anxiety.

I have observed that, when people are depressed or anxious about something, their whole life gets affected, limiting their ability to think or make a rational decision regarding their successful life. Anxiety affects the family, social, emotional, biological and spiritual wellbeing, changing and creating a negative mood resulting in our relationships, personal appearance, daily interest and sometimes goes a long way to breakdown the loving family union one might have had.

This killer bug has the potential to affect one’s desire to motivate him or her to pursue success in life because of the toxics bugs leave behind such as fatigue, poor sleep, aches and pains, leading to lack of energy for everyday duties or excessive exhaustion after small amounts of activity. Most often, individuals who get affected by this killer bugs, express low self-confidence, lose interest in hobbies making them isolate themselves from others or social activities.

Personally, being a Public Health Worker, I have discovered that, depression or severe anxiety, can contribute to suicidal thoughts, which can affect any one from a child to an adult. Suicidal thoughts and death can be a major symptom of anxiety and must be taken very seriously. Anyone, affected by anxiety is likely to feel worthless and the only option they think they have is to take their life.

Anxiety is caused by the people we surround ourselves with. Sometimes, they over-expect from us and if we are not able to meet their standard and their expectations, we get upset and allow fear to set in to choke our spirit of greatness. You have the power to detach from these individuals because, your success demands that, you acknowledge your strength and avoid being stressed out by the options, expectations of people and never accepting the opinion of others to be your perfection.

Sir Richard Branson one day explained how he immunized himself against this killer bug to his successful life. He said that, for one to be successful in life, one needs to develop a great sense of courage in the face of fear and develop methods to overcome worry or anxiety in business

Finally, to be immunized against worry or anxiety, it is very important that, you organize your life in such a way that, you take each day at a time and devise measures to tackle challenges that arise and take control of them within your own power. Never ran away from trouble, but be bold enough to face anything causing the worry. My advice to you is to do everything possible to become immune against this killer bug and never let your worries or anxiety stop you from achieving success in life, as many of these are just shadows and not real. Remember that, you are not alone and will never be. There have been other great and influential people in the world today, who never gave up on themselves regardless of challenges and have become famous. Step up and keep up. You are destined to succeed only if you can immunize yourself against killer bugs.

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”-Amit Ray

Ferdinard Senyo Lawson is a Beffta Awards winning author (2013) of many inspirational and motivational books. African Heritage Award best Author Nominee 2014, Beffta Award Best author Nominee, 2014. He is a Life coach, mentor, publication consultant, Columnist, radio host, the C.E.O and the founder of Ferdinard Lawson publication consultancy. Ferdinard Lawson Inspiration & Empowerment Agency (FLiEA) in UK, and a faculty member of the African Professional Speakers’ Academy (APSA).

Ferdinard Senyo Lawson is an author of many transformational articles, inspirational and transformational books. He sees teaching as his divine calling. Ferdinard Senyo Lawson’s mandate is to teach the word of God to Empower, Encourage, Motivate and Inspire individuals to remain focus in life, by discovering their identity in order to pursue their purposes and destiny. He also teaches how one can develop themselves and use their positive mindset as a tool to create a life of success, fulfilment, joy and happiness for themselves. He is also an international advisor to The Achievers Foundation; Ghana.

He was honoured as an Extraordinary Individual in United Kingdom by the LIFT EFFECTS, an awarding group for excellence. FERDINARD SENYO LAWSON holds a bachelor degree in public health and social care and a contributing member to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) and works within the National Health Service in United Kingdom.