Travis Bradberry Quotes

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood.

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it's necessary. Over my life's journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.

As long as you can worry about the stuff you can control, that's always best for you.

I can always take a moment when things are going well, when pressure might build, to think: 'You've had a lot worse than this.'