thousand things it wants to stew over. You tell yourself, “That’s fine. I’m allowed to worry about that, and I will. But I won’t do it now. I’ll schedule a specific time to worry about this later. Let’s say, tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. Before that period, I won’t spend a single second thinking about any of this.” And then you do that. If your mind wanders over to those ultra-important, life-or-death thoughts, you can confidently tell yourself that it’s fine, you’ll think about it, just not now. Chances are, the worries are not all that time sensitive and can wait. In fact, you’ll be fresher in the
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