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Life Is a Lot More Fun When You Stop Giving a…
They say that most of life's worries happen in your head and that 85% of what we worry about never ends up happening.
But that doesn’t make things any less stressful now, does it?
Whether the situation causing you distress is real or is something that you’re predicting, the feelings are still pretty much the same.
And it ain’t nice.
Overthinking Is the Culprit
Most of the time these unwelcome worries enter your thought patterns when you have some alone time, when you have time to think. Like at night whilst lying in bed or when you’re having some downtime — ironic that we call it downtime because that’s exactly how these thoughts have you feeling, down.
They happen when you’re alone with your thoughts.
And even if there are other people with you at the time, as soon as the interaction ceases that’s when the internal chatter pipes up.
They say that silence can be deafening and that certainly applies in these situations.
