{Self-Care Challenge} Day #8 – Write A Worry List

to subject to persistent or nagging attention or effort

to afflict with mental distress or agitation; make anxious

to feel or experience concern or anxiety

1. The house doesn’t stay clean.
2. That my husband and I don’t spend enough time talking together.
3. That we don’t have enough money.
4. School is taking too much of my time.
5. I’m losing touch with my friends.
6. For the foreseeable future I’m always going to be tired.
7. That my career is too demanding for me (see #6).
8. My husband and I don’t have enough bow-chicka-wow-wow time.
9. My grandparents are getting older and I don’t see them often enough.
10. I’m never gonna travel!

Wow. That’s almost scary how quickly I came up with 10 items. SMH.

Now once you’ve written down the ten things you worry about, the next step is to delete three of these items. You’re deciding right here and right now that these are the things that you will no longer stress over or worry about. Come up with a concrete reason that you cease to worry about these items. Again, I’ll show you what I mean:

See how easy that is? The goal is to get you feeling like a weight has been lifted. Too often, we stress about things that are in our control. Writing this list and deciding which items are no longer worth worrying about will give you confidence to take control of your life in the areas that count. So go ahead and write that list and tell me what you’re crossing off.