To worry sucks the lifeblood from your projects and saps you of your energy. It’s also quite unpleasant for the people around you.
How often have your plans been killed by the worrier who is so focused on what could go wrong, they douse your enthusiasm with a mixture of self-righteous indignation and theatrics about what could happen usually followed with a litany of reasons why “they just mean the best”.
It really is the worst.
I can only imagine what being subjected to this as a child does for your self-confidence and his feeling free to make decisions and learn from your mistakes. That whole arena is removed and you grow up safe, but stupid.
The other aspect of worry is the worry that you foist onto yourself. Worry that there is too much work, or you can’t stay consistent enough to get it all done, or that you’ll fail at your project. So it’s easier to not get started at all.
Better to not do any work than risk coming in second place, right? Right!? Wrong.
Worrying points out threats that you’re sure to apply to yourself and until those threats are dealt with you will suffer under the yoke of worry and anxiety. It’s kind of like a repeating nightmare that drags you, your work, and the people around you downward.
So I can’t be worried about worry, in fact, I’m only worried if your worry is so great that it makes me worry for my own or my children’s future.
If you worry a lot, try to use the worry to develop a plan of action to complete the task in question and try to consider that your worry may be as destructive as the thing you’re worried about.
“The brave don’t live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.”