We are living through a period of time in which it can be very easy to focus on things to be worried about. It can seem very easy to be doubtful, worried, scared, or pessimistic. Believe me, I went through my own bout with Chicken Little last month 😉
But I say that only brings misery. I say, now is the time to guard your mind of negativity! I say, now is the time to fill your mind with things to appreciate. Now is the time to choose who you want to be, to choose where you put your focus.
Because you do have a choice: you can go along with the herd, which is scared as it gobbles up horrific news stories and meditates on the worst form of nightmares real and imagined. You can let Chicken Little become the President and CEO of You Inc., steering your ship and making all your decisions for you.
Go ahead and do it. It’s still a free country. But don’t expect to be happy. Happiness does not come from wallowing in worry. Believe me, I know of which I speak.
Worry is the process of marinating on shit. A lot of people actually don’t understand just how completely useless it is! You might say that you are worried about something, as if you are merely mulling over something. But no! By worrying, you are focusing on unwanted things.
People don’t worry about the millions of dollars they are going to make! They don’t worry about the health and well-being and awesome relationships they are going to have. They worry about the lack of these things. They worry about losing these things, failing at having these things, or being unworthy of ever having these things.
And in the process, they are not attracting pleasant things to themselves.
Worry is the result of sloppy focus.
I worried for years. In fact, I have often joked with myself that I was a worry-aholic. What’s your drug of choice? For me it was worry.
One of the reasons I am so committed to learning about the Law of Attraction is that I finally want to get it right after botching it for so long! I really now understood how deep down the rabbit hole of worry I had gone. I did not even realize how much I thought about what I did not want.
This made life harder, more stressful, and more sucky. I made choices for weird reasons, and I wrongly assessed others and often didn’t give them, or myself, a proper chance. I worked harder than I needed to, often doing things I didn’t really enjoy. And I imagined all kinds of negativity around me that usually didn’t exist, such as believing that other people didn’t like me. And because I didn’t question my worry, I often acted as if it was so.
Yeah… that sucked.
Worry is always unsatisfying because it is always a meditation on loss, pain, and unhappiness. It is projecting into the future and imagining something bad happening… even if it is something that might seem relatively harmless, it is still focusing on something you do not want.
Stop it! I’m telling you, your creative powers are too precious to be wasted on worry. Give yourself a million-dollar gift, and decide that, no matter what happens in these strange times we are living, you will guard your mind from worry. Decide to steer your thoughts towards wonderful, positive, good-feeling things.
You don’t want to go with the herd on this one. No one gets a ribbon for being the best worrier.
Or else I would I would have dozens.