Gemma Spake

I'm here to play.

This is actually one of the best things you can do for this kind of pressure and this performance anxiety because you actually trigger your nervous system to calm down and to stop viewing your current situation as a threat.

Genuinely, they have done studies on this.

People who counteract pressure by asking themselves, how can I enjoy this more?

How can I play around with this more?

How can I make a game out of this?

do better.

They do better.

A playful mindset is like magic because it lets you loosen your grip a little bit.

And that's really what's killing a lot of this ambition and dreams is that we're so stressed.

We're clinging onto it so tightly that we're like choking it.

We need to be able to let things naturally move and flow.

With that in mind, I think it is time that we talk about some other important mindset shifts that can lessen the pressure to be extraordinary and let you start flourishing without the need to be the greatest.

And that the first one is the mindset of like, how can I have fun here?

Another is this mantra of being like,

Even the ordinary can be extraordinary if I do it with care.

If I do it with authenticity, if I do it with focus.

Being on Forbes 30 under 30, being a CEO, being famous, getting headlines, all great.

But you can be the best at anything you like that is completely small and minute.

You can be the best cook in your friendship group.