In this episode, Jeannette shares 5 tips to help you to get rid of feeling guilty about things that you have nothing to feel guilty about. As well as how to process those feelings in a healthy way should you make a mistake or fail to do something.
Jeannette starts by looking at the neuroscience behind why we feel guilty. She then shares her tips to help you break free of negative guilt cycles and avoid getting into them in the first place.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Feeling guilty all the time and beating yourself up is not healthy.
Sometimes you feel guilty about things you haven´t done e.g., not getting through your to-do list.
Guilt performs a powerful social function – it helps to govern our behaviour.
There is a good neuroscience reason behind feeling guilty. Jeannette explains the mechanism in the podcast.
We all tend to blow things out of proportion and feel really guilty about relatively small errors.
Doing one bad thing does not make you a bad person.
Be kind to yourself and forgive yourself.
Apologizing helps to assuage guilt, but you need to be careful about how you do it. Jeannette explains in the podcast.
Learning from the mistakes you make and the things you do wrong is still important. It just needs to be done in a balanced way.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Sometimes you can feel guilty even for the things you haven´t done.’
‘Actually, our brains reward us for feelings of guilt. ´
‘But when it comes to feelings of guilt, you know, sometimes we blow it up out of all proportion.’
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ABOUT THE HOST
Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development.
Jeannette is a down-to-earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams.
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Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big’ international business to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true’ to yourself is the order of the day.
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