Paul McKenna explains worry as incomplete planning: you imagine what could go wrong but skip the solution. If you can fix it, fix it. If you can't, your brain is just running an overactive alarm. Over 50% of people improve while waiting for therapy to start.
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Jay Haley's study reportedly showed over 50% of people improved before seeing a therapist.
Richard Branson and Anita Roddick.
McKenna reports that most business problems are solved by 3pm on the day they are discovered.
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What's your biggest worry right now?
Is it something to do with your finances or job? Are you worried about your physical health.
Or the health of somebody close to you?
Do you obsess over something which happened.
In the past or which you fear.
May happen in the future?
The trick to stop worrying is to solve whatever problem it is that you're worrying about to the best of your ability. If that makes the worry go away.
Then you know it was just a.
Message from your emotional intelligence to better prepare for the task at hand. The word Worry Worry comes from a Greek word which can be translated as divided mind.
And that's exactly what worry feels like.
So much of the time, a stream.
Of thoughts pulling you in many different directions at once.
Worrying is not only one of the least productive uses we can make of our minds, it's also one of the least pleasant. So why do we keep on worrying? Does worrying always keep you safe? Have you ever been able to let go of a worrying thought?
We're designed as human beings to keep.
Things familiar and to stay in control as best we can.
But there's a tremendous difference between taking.
Care of what's within your control and worrying about what's not.
I had the opportunity to interview a.
Number of the wealthiest people on the.
Planet for my book I Can make.
Youe Rich, including Richard Branson and Anita Roddick.
One of the things that struck me.
About them was their sense of calm, even in the face of decisions which could make or cost their companies millions of dollars. When I asked them about it, they.
Each shared their own version of a.
Process they use that's known as downside planning, which ess works like this. Think about an upcoming event or transaction. Imagine all the things that could possibly.
Go wrong with that thing, then come.
Up with a solution for each eventuality. What's fascinating is this. What most people call worrying is simply interrupting the process, or downside planning after the second step.
That is, people imagine all things that.
Could possibly go wrong, but never get around to creating solutions.
If the worry continues even after you've.
Come up with a viable solution for the problem, then chances are it's just an overactive protection mechanism with a faulty reset button.
Of course, not all problems even need to be solved. A fascinating study, first reported by the.
Author and researcher Jay Haley into waiting lists for therapy showed that over 50% of people got better before they got in to see the therapist.
This points to the fact that much.
Of what people worry about would take care of itself if people simply gave.
It the time and space to resolve. So when I moved to Los Angeles from London, I found out that most.
Business problems are solved by 3pm on the day that they're discovered.
