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6 Tips for Managing Your Anxiety from Olympic Sports Psychologists
By Carolyn L. Todd — 2018
Because they know how to help you cope under pressure.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.3