A colleague told me this a few weeks back - "Action is the antidote to anxiety." The idea is to focus on taking action on the things that we can control, being ready with our response to life's challenges. I think there is a lot of truth to that.
With the uncertainty in my job, I've spent some time combing over my budget, figuring out what a bare bones budget looks like and focusing on how building up the emergency fund I think I may need someday. I've also cut a lot of my non-essential spending. My resume is mostly up-to-date from the job I applied to last year and I have copies of any relevant personnel documents at home now. I've also started thinking about which cities I would enjoy living in if I find myself job hunting again. If I lose my job (or feel the time has come that I need to leave), I'm ready to deal with it so I'm not worrying about it so much anymore. If it happens, it will just be the next adventure in my life.
When my marriage fell apart last summer, I spent those first weeks and months focusing on the things I could control - developing a budget, downloading statements of all our assets and debts, looking for apartments, making lists of the things I wanted to take with me, building a social network for support, etc. Honestly, it didn't leave me time to worry much and when worry did creep into my mind, I could go over all the plans I was making.
Action won't solve all my worries but it definitely lessens them quite a bit.
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