Schedule Your Worry Time
Do you ever find yourself worrying for days, or even weeks before an event? Does your mind create more stress and challenges than are really necessary?
We all worry and a lot of people with ADD tend to worry because of one little thing. Their thoughts can get away from them. This results in that scattered thought process associated with ADD. Fortunately there is a lot of brilliance and high intelligence behind that scattered thought process, it just needs to be corralled.
So, how do you schedule your worry time? For me, it’s become a very simple and automatic thing. In my last post Write It Down, I spoke about……..writing everything down. In a continuation of that, part of what I do at the end of each day is organize my to-do list for the next day. Think about what you worry about? Doesn’t it make sense that, if you have a planned approach to your next day’s tasks and what you need to accomplish, it will create an organized and clear thought process in executing those tasks? It does to me and it works.
For me, my worry time is when I am planning my next day’s to-do list. I’ll do a little worrying about what needs to get done, the priority or importance of tasks, time specific tasks or commitments and how my next days needs to come together. It is this worry time that allows me to strategically plan my next day. As a result, I end up with a smoother day, less stress, it helps me focus and maintain a direction.
Once the worry of what needs to happen tomorrow is over and your next day is planned, there is no need to worry. Plan your tomorrow, tonight.