Today, January 12, there’s more talk about impending POSSIBLE snow here in NC this coming weekend. Even 2 days ago there was a post from The Weather Channel about it and everybody started to go crazy!
One guy who keeps it real on his weather Facebook page, which I love (his page and that he keeps it real), says we could get 0-85 inches of snow; it could be snowpocalypse or a beautiful day.
Funny how it’s still just Wednesday and the weather event is not estimated to happen till Saturday night/Sunday – several days away – and people are freaking out. Supposedly, the stores are crazy as people go nuts buying all-the-things over a few snow flakes.
While that’s amusing, think about how that translates to our own lives.
How there can be something that isn’t even planned, even an appointment on the calendar, not even close to happening, but there MAY be a possibility of that something and we start to obsess about it, freak out, worry, and conjecture.
It’s something that’s still days away, maybe weeks or even months and that POSSIBLE something is already consuming worrying us.
Have you ever had that happen?
Where you spent all this time, energy, and brain power worrying and then it doesn’t even happen or come to fruition.
Think about all the time, energy, and worry for nothing.
This is something I’ve been working on since last April. I had left my job without another and wondered how I could take time off, how much time off, if we’d be ok financially, and what would be next (just to name a few!). Then we found out we were moving anyhow!
I worried about selling our house, and buying a house.
One technique I did to help during that stressful, uncertain time was to have a mantra of “it’s all going to work out.”
If I would start down that what if path, I’d stop and say “it’s all going to work out.”
And look, now here we are – everything has worked out – and honestly worked out really well – maybe even better than I could’ve planned!
I think this is such a good thing to keep in mind. Because it’s so easy to get sucked into worry, conjecture and what-ifs.
Being more present, living in the moment and most of the time things work out and it’s amazing and awesome! And, maybe even better than you could’ve imagined!
Remember, “it’s all going to work out!”