Anxiety and perspective

It's easy for me as a new parent to slip into anxiety: Am I going to screw up a lot by making the wrong decision? By overlooking something? By not being enough? By being too much? But that anxiety is not helpful. Better to focus on what I can do and what I can learn. 2016-07-306 When I let other people infect me with judgment or anxiety, I can step back and see: • • What are the useful ideas or recommendations I can explore? I don't have to be attached to past decisions or people's opinions, and I can separate the emotions out. Do I need to recalibrate my perceptions or adjust my reasoning process? It's okay to be wrong. from time to time; watch out for being skewed or consistently wrong. Σ This is just my perception of the thing, and not the true thing itself.