Don't Worry About Worrying

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Almost everyone worries. From niggling concerns to full-on, sleep-crippling, progress-crushing hand-wringing, we are all sidetracked and stymied by possible disastrous outcomes that may happen or may not happen. Neil gives his take on worry and the futility of constantly considering future catastrophes and some alternatives to this drain on your time.  KEY TAKEAWAYS If we are fixated on future events we rob ourselves of the joy of the present moment.  Worrying is a habit that gains us nothing. While we are worrying, we cannot deal with current problems and make long-term plans. You may begin to expect things to go wrong. Worry solidifies the expectation of failure.  BEST MOMENTS‘That dismal, catastrophic future burns all our time and energy that we have right now that we could be better using to create different future outcomes.’‘Very often the flip side of worrying is that we can become so over-awed by what we’ve worried into existence in our own mind that we become paralysed by it.’‘Write down your current assessment of the reality that you’re dealing with. Take a little time and write down your worst-case outcome, the very thing you’ve worried into existence.’ ‘Block some time in and mark it ‘worry hour’. If you know that you must sit and worry about a problem for an hour, or two hours or more, you’ll immediately get total clarity on whether that’s a good use of your time.’  VALUABLE RESOURCESThe Tutor Podcastwww.Neilcowmeadow.com ABOUT THE HOSTNeil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! CONTACT [email protected]

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