Coaching practices for Why is First Time Ceo Anxiety So Intense and What Causes it
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When I really look at it, I’m not so much afraid of the thing itself as I am afraid of how I’ll react to it
- It’s the same loop every time
- I just took over a brand-new team and everyone’s being polite and looking to me for everything
- What I’m actually terrified of isn’t out there in the world
- Right before the big moment I’m wired and shaking and I keep telling myself to calm down and relax, which never works and just makes me more frantic that I can’t
Practices that may help
- Identify anticipatory anxiety as the real target
Distinguish the symptom from the fear of the symptom — paradoxical intention targets the second, not the first.
Logotherapy: Paradoxical Intention - Name the impostor cycle
Map your own version of the cycle — anxiety, over-preparation or avoidance, success, re-attribution — so you can see it happening in real time.
Impostor Phenomenon, Made Practical - Forming: provide clarity before connection
In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical - Reappraise anxiety as excitement before high-stakes performance
Tell yourself "I’m excited" rather than "I’m nervous" — the physiology is the same, the performance effect is not.
Choking Under Pressure, Made Practical - Reappraise physiological arousal as activation, not anxiety
Tell yourself "I’m excited" rather than "I’m nervous" — the physiology is identical; the label changes performance.
The Clutch State: Performing Under Pressure - Recalibrate arousal as readiness, not threat
Reinterpret pre-performance anxiety as energy and readiness rather than evidence of inadequacy.
Mastery Experiences - Shift to task-focused attention under performance anxiety
Redirect attention from self-monitoring and outcome worry to the specific process cues of the task at hand.
Attentional Deployment, Made Practical - De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone - Model vulnerability and uncertainty as a leader to accelerate safety
Deliberately share your own uncertainties, mistakes, and questions — it gives permission for others to do the same.
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety
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- Anxiety As Performance Fuel
Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal
- Anxiety Reappraisal Performance
Reinterpret physiological arousal as excitement rather than anxiety — they share the same physiology.
Arousal Reappraisal: "I’m Excited, Not Anxious"
- Eft Performance Anxiety
EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
- How To Get Over Performance Anxiety Ed
Use targeted techniques to reduce arousal when anxiety or over-activation is undermining performance.
- How To Get Over Performance Anxiety In The Bedroom
Before a performance, commit to performing as badly as possible — notice what happens to the anxiety.
Use paradoxical intention for performance anxiety
- Performance Anxiety Science
Anxiety before a challenging task is physiologically identical to excitement — the label you apply determines whether it helps or hurts.
Reinterpret physiological arousal as readiness, not threat
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