The Thing About Worry
1. Worry is our mind's twisted way of dealing with an uncertain future.
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2. This future construction in our minds may or may not come to fruition.
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3. Virtually always, the visions in our minds does not come to fruition.
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4. Ostensibly we believe we are unable to handle the impending doom we imagine, even though we are almost certainly fully capable.
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5. Even if the horrible, terrible, awful thing happens, is there truly no solution for it?
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6. Being worried about the future is markedly different than planning for the worst-case scenario.
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7. Planning for the worst-case scenario involves identifying risk and reasoning ways to mitigate it. It is pro-active and does not react to ruminations on how incapable we think we are.
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8. Insurance companies bank (literally) on us being worried about some unknown future. We give them the power they possess with our worry.
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9. Fear of the unknown will never go away but we can learn to positively exist alongside it.
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10. Worry never helped anyone build a bridge, write a song, run a marathon, or build a business.
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