Action alleviates anxiety.
This is my mantra. I repeated it over and over during law school, where stress and the fear of failure often overwhelmed and paralyzed me.
I, like many Americans, am filled with fear and anxiety today. And, so, I return to my mantra.
Action alleviates anxiety.
Every day, any way.
What does this mean?
This means that every single day for the next four years, I will do something to make my world and my country a better place. Most days, that something will be very small. All times, I will keep my focus on speaking up for those whose voices are not protected or cannot speak on their own.
I believe that most Americans are good people, regardless of who they voted for. Our nation has chosen a leader that, in my view, does not stand for goodness or hope or hard work or integrity.
I refuse to be a whiner, though, I want to be an actor, I want to be in the arena fighting for my country.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
Join me.
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