Never hold your breath
Rule #2 in diving. Don’t hold your breath. Holding your breath underwater is an intuitive response to anxiety. The thing with it is that it escalates your stress underwater. And you want to know what to do. Same is in business. Holding your breath looks like this: avoiding making decisions or having hard conversations (with your team or your customers), so that you will “not get” stressed. It only escalates the situation. The way to go about it in diving? Breathing slowly and calmly. What…
