Fourteen sentences that will help you worry less than 99% of people

Do you think you could ever stop worrying?

Quitting worry is, for many, a bit like saying you’re going to live in an exotic country and saying you’re jealous of your friends who’ve already done it, but always finding a way never to leave your home town.

Most of us know that worry isn’t helpful, often painful, but we still cling to it for some reason.

Here are some short ideas to help you shift your relationship with worry so you do it less:

People worry because a small part of them believes that by entertaining worrying thoughts, they will, in some way, seize back some control they feel they lack.

If you’ve ever felt energised by worrying, maybe worrying is for you after all.

Worry is a woeful misuse of the imagination.

Worrying happens when we buy into the perceived importance of serious and heavy thoughts.

Worrying is not the same as thinking through a problem, because the former is a panic response, whereas the latter is a creative one.

Our thoughts are not there to be believed but instead used as a tool.

Worry decreases our performance because it takes us out of the present, where we will perform…