RE: Spend Your Thoughts Wisely
I can relate to worrying about crops when a storm is coming. Been there myself.
It's hard for my friends to believe, but I used to be a chronic worrier. Ten a friend taught me to write down everything I worried about for three months. After the three months passed he asked me to make a check mark next to each worry on my list that actually manifested.
Turns out only 1 out 10 things I had worried about actually happened.
He then told me to remember all the energy I had spent worrying about those things that never came to pass. 90% of what I have worried about didn't happen at all. He then told me to imagine redirecting all that wasted energy towards the 10% of the things that were actually worth worrying about and how much more effective that would be.
That little exercise changed my life forever.
Right now, I'm barely surviving on Steem with the price so low. I'm on the other side of the planet away from home, still in Thailand and going to Vietnam on the 1st. I should be worried and most my friends would understand if I was.
But hell, I'm not going to starve with meals costing only a dollar. Hostels on the beach are only $5/day in Vietnam. I'll be alright. The plan is to dig in and save some money for a flight back to Mexico where I'll find a job again.
Life is good and it all works out. Worrying doesn't really help at all so why do it? Be happy.
That is a great exercise! Funny how making "worry" into something tangible shows how futile it all is! I'm with you though; life always has a way of working itself out :)
Have a Merry Christmas if I don't talk to you before then! Be happy :)