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How journaling and one stoic question turned it around in two hours.","How to emotionally deal with a bad luck trigger","## Experiencing a bad luck trigger\n\nOn a saturday afternoon I was creating the monthly newsletter for my business. As usual, I was late and only started working on it when the month had almost passed. So why did I procrastinate? Well I was busy with things I thought were more important. Yet, I was on track releasing it in April. But then my worst nightmare became reality … My laptop, a.k.a my life, decided to just not work anymore. Anxiety went through the roof. All my plans and to-do list stagnated and well, so did the newsletter.\n\n## How I emotionally deal with a bad luck trigger\n\nAs I sat on my couch staring at the empty wall I asked myself; what now? Luckily I have had these moments that seem like destruction in the moment more often and due to my self-awareness I know how to deal with it. I started by journaling in [undrstand](https:\u002F\u002Fundrstand.com) on what happened and how it made me feel, this calmed me down. Also, doing this will let [undrstand](https:\u002F\u002Fundrstand.com) find triggers that I can eventually process and find out the root cause of why I got anxious in the first place. Then I implemented a little bit of stoicism, what is in my control? And so I made a to-do list of things I could actually do to solve the problem. Then instead of ruminating on what went wrong I took action and finished my to-do list. In two hours I turned the situation from I just want to cope with tv and pizza to actually it’s not that bad and I’ll get through this. Now my laptop is in repair and I managed to loan a replacement until it is back.\n\nI hope my story may inspire you to work on your self-awareness or just as a comedic relief to make your day.",2,[24,27,30],{"question":25,"answer":26},"What is a bad luck trigger?","A moment where something outside your control goes wrong, like a laptop that stops working right before a deadline, and sets off a strong reaction such as anxiety or panic. The bad luck itself is the trigger; how you respond is the part you can work on.",{"question":28,"answer":29},"How do you calm down when something goes wrong that you cannot control?","What worked in this story: first write down what happened and how it made you feel, then ask what is still in your control and turn that into a short to-do list. Working through that list takes the place of ruminating on what went wrong.",{"question":31,"answer":32},"Does journaling help with sudden anxiety?","It did here. 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Hoe schrijven en één stoïcijnse vraag het binnen twee uur omdraaiden.","2024-05-01","2024-05-01T12:00:00.000000Z","Tristan",{"data":45,"links":72,"meta":75},[46,55,63,71],{"id":47,"collection":10,"entry":48,"locale":17,"slug":48,"title":49,"description":50,"reading_minutes":51,"image":52,"dated_at":53,"published_at":54,"published_by":43,"updated_at":54},"a2f6f050-ca07-4254-8692-479ae883414f","small-gesture-big-impact","A Small Gesture, a Big Impact: One Question Saved My Degree","I had one attempt left at a maths test and kept avoiding it, until a friend asked me one simple question. 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A story about going all-in at work, in the gym and on myself, and why slowing down gets you there faster.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.undrstand.com\u002Fseo-pages\u002Fimages\u002F04MwtKOfnOcGFMfcgGqbLWhdC8NF70PS2wHe6gRr.webp","2024-08-31","2024-08-31T12:00:00.000000Z",{"id":64,"collection":10,"entry":65,"locale":17,"slug":65,"title":66,"description":67,"reading_minutes":22,"image":68,"dated_at":69,"published_at":70,"published_by":43,"updated_at":70},"a2f6f130-a25e-44cb-a060-8cd6e95469e6","why-you-are-procrastinating","Why You Procrastinate: It May Be Belief, Not Laziness","Procrastination is usually blamed on laziness or quick dopamine. 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