Worry … Why Wait? … Do it Now!
Let’s just suppose for a minute that next week you are going with a group of friends to help build a Habitat for Humanity home. Your job will be to help hammer some of the framing together. What would you tell me if I said that you should go ahead and hit your thumb now just in case it happens next week? You’d laugh and tell me how silly I am, wouldn’t you? But isn’t that what worry is all about … having your pain in advance?
Winston Churchill was once quoted as saying “When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened”.
How much time are you spending each day having your pain in advance? Spending your precious time thinking up scenarios and how to handle them just in case, somehow maybe, it actually happened. Taking time away from the things and people you love, fixating on something other than this one, brief, moment in time.
Don’t misunderstand me, it’s good to be prepared. But for now, take a deep breath, focus on the moment and realize that nothing, I mean nothing, is worth hurting before you absolutely have to. And, consider listening to my “Stop Wrestling with Worry” CD to reaffirm your ability to take worry off your plate of things to do.
by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | August 12, 2010
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