Once you have done everything you can to prepare for success, the outcome of your endeavors is out of your hands. Worrying will not make things go more smoothly. What is going to be is going to be. If you have truly done your best, you need to find peace in that fact. If your … Continue reading The Effort You Put In
Worry is a story you tell yourself about things that may never come to pass. It is a story you tell yourself about how you will experience a future that is uncertain and that exists only in your imagination. You cannot predict the future by worrying about it. What is going to be will be. … Continue reading Enjoy The Present
Life is not without its challenges, but there is no sense in making it more difficult in your imagination. Anticipating the worst does not prevent it from coming to pass. What it does do, however, is ruin your experience of the present. You simply cannot enjoy your life now if you spend all of your … Continue reading Imagining Difficulty
Fear is a natural, involuntary response to a perceived threat. Fear exists to help you survive in an often harsh and dangerous world. Worry is something altogether different, however. Worry is a story you tell yourself about fear. Fear is immediate and about the present moment. Worry, on the other hand, takes you out of … Continue reading Deciding (Not) To Worry
Worry does nothing to improve the situation about which you are worried. Worry does not help you think more clearly, it does not help you formulate a plan, and it certainly does not help you take decisive action towards a solution for your worry. Worry just keeps you stuck, trapped in a cycle of inaction … Continue reading Misdirected Energy
