Anxious 9 to 5: How to Beat Worry, Stop Second-Guessing Yourself, and Work with Confidence

by Larina Kase, Joe Vitale, Martin M. Antony

Do you come to work wound-up and anxious, never quite able to calm down? Do pressing deadlines and a constant sense of urgency make you feel as if you just can't get ahead? Do you feel distracted and unable to focus throughout the day? Before you know it, you're spending sleepless nights worrying about what on-the-job disasters tomorrow will bring. Anxiety in the workplace is serious and can hold you back from achieving the success you deserve, despite how hard you work. Anxious 9 to 5 offers simple and effective techniques to get your workplace anxiety under control once and for all so you can enjoy work and be more productive. First, you'll learn how anxiety develops in the workplace and, more importantly, how to stop it before it gets the best of you. After that, you're in customize the book's powerful exercises and self-evaluations to target your own personal workplace anxieties. In no time, you'll move past your obstacles and begin building confidence, focus, and a successful and fulfilling career-one day at a time. Get control •Anxiety, stress, and worry at work
•The perils of perfectionism
•Self-defeating thoughts
•Fears of failure and public speaking
•Procrastination and discomfort on the job
•Difficulty being the boss

Genres: Self Help

232 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

Reviews

[Mirlen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the differentiations between stress and anxiety, and learned some about my own avoidance tendencies. However, I felt like the advice the book gave was simplistic and at times non-existent, just referencing a problem without a solution.

[Garrett Fowler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid tips related to improving anxiety you notice at work and home!

[Shrimp · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good and concise read on forms of anxiety and how to overcome them. The book offers a short questionnaire to help identify particular areas of anxiety (e.g., perfectionism, fear of failure, etc.) and goes into how to address/reduce anxiety in those areas. It also goes over specific "coaching points" (i.e., exercises) to help the reader put ideas into practice, which I found useful. Also, it highlighted the differences between anxiety and stress which was very interesting as the ways to overcome anxiety vs. stress typically require opposite approaches.

[Jeanette Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent intro to get your feet wet about avoidance behavior and procrastination due to anxiety or stress in the work place...

[Deirdre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably would have been more useful if I had done the exercises but it was a good reminder that I'm not a fake, that I can do this and that panicking and postponing nasty tasks never gets it done.