Wait to Worry

Wait to Worry

Anxiety begets anxiety. I even worried that I worried too much!Ulcers might develop. My health could fail. My finances could be depleted to pay the hospital bils.
A comedian once said, "I tried to drown my worries with gin, but my worries are equiped with flotation devices." While not a drinker,k I certainly could idetify! My worries could swim, jump and pole vault!
I decided that I would wait to worry until I actually had a reason to worry- something that was happening, not just something that might happen-before I worrie. When I'm tempted to get alarmed I tell myself,you've got to wait to worry! Until you know differently,don't worry.Waiting to worry helps me develop the habit of not worrying and that helps me not to be tempted to worry.If you ask people what they were cant remember. Then if you ask what are they current worry about they can come up with something. The average worrier is 92% inefficient only 8%of what we worry about ever comes true.We should all get up in the morning and rejoice. Many people fail to refoice today becuse they live with the worry of tomorrow threats. If we worry about something that has not ocurred, theologian Hellmut Thielicke calls it, "wandering in times not our own."In other words don't cross the river until you get there.
"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that WE CAN ONLY BE HAPPY NOW. and that there will never be a time when it is not now." Gerald Jaampolsky
Vicki Hitzges

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Sherry,thank you for the nugget of the day.Good tip to stay on course.All the best, chuck.