We had a family crisis this week.
One of my kids was really deeply worried about something, someone's reaction to a situation, a problem that had arisen.
We tried to reassure them, but they weren't for reassuring not until the problem completely disappeared.
The reaction of the person in question was, as the rest of us expected, completely reasonable, kind and nice.
There are no new ideas, though, and so the idea that I'm about to propose to you that I used years ago has recently been published in a Seth Godin blog, who writes about it much better than me.
I think I started to do this strategy back when I had my GDC case (my first GDC case) in about 2013, 2014.
Whenever I put the Christmas decorations away in the loft, I used to write a note to myself and put it in the box. I used to write about what I was worried about, things that I thought would derail my life, and post it to myself in January for the following December.
When it came to getting the Christmas decorations out right at the end of that year, I would pick up the note when I opened the box and laugh at myself for being so ridiculous.
It's a good strategy to teach us not to worry too much about stuff that's out of our control.
Seth talks about the Book of Concern. Why not write once a week, what you're worried about at the start of the week, just a note or two to yourself (journaling is one of the greatest ways to save your mental health). You can then review it the following week and realise that most of the things to worry about should never have crossed your troubled mind.
In the practice, Hayley and I always talk about this ‘week's crisis’, and I've been writing a journal since 2007.
There are no new ideas, they've all been done before, but it doesn't mean it's not worth revisiting things, especially in this age where it's very easy to be ‘up to high doe’ (as my mom would say) all the time.
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