How not to worry

Just when the knife is ready to fall something comes along and saves your bacon! As the saying goes 90% of what we worry about never evetuates and the other 10% of the time works better! And on reflection my anecdotal experience reinforces sets this.

So if we know that most things turn out ok, then why do we continue to worry so bloody much and is there any remedy to the problem of worrying?

Ok here's the bad news, psychologists tell us that as humans beings, we are all prone to worry, no one is immune. They do acknowledge one thing and thats we all experience different levels of worry. So, maybe the question to ask, is not how to stop it all together, but how do we go about reducing the level of anxiety with the worry.

My personal strategy that works for me is my one step philosophy; take one simple step or action to reduce/solve/understand the worry you have... That's it! My strategy...

As an example of how this can work, I'll use this particular blog article as an example, I've now posted three or four blogs over the last month and now I'm suffering from writers block. I'm a day or two late even posting another blog and it was niggling at me, so 15 minutes ago I sat down at the table while waiting for Joey to cook my dinner and stated that all I'll do is start with one sentence...15 minutes later I had somehow created this article, read it to Joey and made some minor grammatical adjustments ... Result, I feel complete, the anxiety has gone, dinner is ready and I'm proud of my first draft (you're reading the edited version now).

 

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