LIFE FORCES
7.14.2022 EAP
How do forces (school, work, kids, your partner, your friends) impact your life positively or negatively?
Which forces come to mind immediately?
Positive & Negative
-partner
-family
-friends
-professional acquaintances
growing school teaching expectations
-interpersonal relationships
-finances
-overall health
-self belief
What have you learned about how different forces impact your journey?
-avoid immediate reactions to triggers
-importance of satiety/emotional awareness
-try to breathe
-try not to assume
-be cautious with expectations
-distract, delay, and forgive
What are the biggest forces, and what are the forces playing a supporting role?
Negatively impacting:
-Feeling powerless
-Lack of hope and potential
Supportive roles:
-Being unaware and caught off guard (decision fatigue)
Which forces work for you, and which forces work against your goals?
Helpful:
-Open communication, humor, enough sleep, lack of judgement, and ability to look from the outside in
Unhelpful:
-Paranoia, allowing the past to affect my present, assumptions
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