Sometimes, the best thing that you can do for yourself is not to spend a majority of your time wondering, constructing scenarios, and obsessing over things that happen in your life that are completely out of your control. While it is far too easy to allow your worries to take control of your daily focus, you must learn how to overcome them in order to keep the strongest mindset that you possibly can.
It is imperative to realize that you owe it to yourself to clear your head of unnecessary clutter in order to maintain peace of mind. The quality of your life will differ drastically, in a positive way, once you place a limit on the amount of time you waste on worrying.
What you spend your time thinking about, when you allow those thoughts to shape your course of actions, and how often you think about those things have a bigger impact on your daily life than you may think.
Initially, change, no matter how major or minuscule, may seem detrimental, dreadful, and distressing. However, change is actually an opportunity for introducing several positive aspects into your life such as gaining insight, understanding novel notions, building fresh relationships, fortifying old relationships, absolving your ignorance, and detoxifying your environment. Change is inevitable; therefore, you must try your best to find all the good that has the potential to result from it.
Worrying about the future is a natural default that everyone experiences and is nearly impossible to completely stop. Additionally, thinking about the future is definitely necessary to do while making decisions that dictate the course of your life. Yet, there comes a time where expending a certain amount of energy on worrying about the possible outcomes and consequences of a certain decision becomes unhealthy.
Do not let the thought of change distract you from what you are experiencing now. You have no way to completely predict what the future is going to be like; why waste your time fretting about it and assuming the absolute worst? You will be unable to commit yourself to whatever is occurring right here, right now if you dread the change, or potential outcomes of change, to arrive.
Stop dreading change; instead, learn to accept that life is unpredictable. As intimidating as this sounds, at least you will give your mind a break from the unnerving negative worries about what could happen. As a result, you will be more focused on what you are experiencing at this moment.