Anticipation vs Anxiety
I've always had a love / hate relationship with change. I love change when I'm the one in control and making it happen. In fact, there's nothing I enjoy more than mixing up my routines, learning something new, going to new places and challenging myself. I hate change when it's not me who's doing the changing and I feel out of control. When it comes to change, I've always associated 'anticipation' with excitement about a positive change and 'anxiety' with changes that I'm feeling not so good about. To throw something else into the mix, I've discovered there's such a thing as 'anticipatory anxiety' which is defined as '... when a person experiences worry and fear when thinking about an event that may or may not occur in the future' . I thought it was quite apt as many companies, including my own, have started communicating to their employees about returning to work and what the future will look like. 16 months on...