85. Replace worry with action
Don’t worry. Or rather, don’t just worry. Let worry change into action. When you find yourself worrying about something, ask yourself the action question, “What can I do about this right now?” And then do something. Anything. Any small thing.
Most of my life, I spent my time asking myself the wrong question every time I worried. I asked myself, “What should I be feeling about this?” I finally discovered that I was much happier when I started asking, instead, “What can I do about this?” If I am worried about the conversation I had with my wife last night, and how unfair I might have been to say the things I said, I can ask myself, “What can I do about that right now?”
By putting the question into the action arena, ...
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