Focusing on a worry helps us avoid thinking about something that’s more stressful or feeling a painful emotion.

Ever find yourself worrying about something relatively minute (like a curt response to your email) when a larger event looms (e.g. a major audit). Likely, you’re more stressed by the audit, but it’s an easy diversion to worry about the curt tone.

Worry mind mistakenly tells us we are protecting ourselves from negative outcomes.

Our brains trick us into believing that if we just stay up all night worrying about the interview we have tomorrow, we’ll somehow lessen the painful blow of not getting the job.

Worry mind tells us that if we worry & plan enough, we can control the outcome.

Have you ever reviewed the details of a project over & over to the point where you even wondered if you were being unproductive?

Although worrying makes us miserable, we’re arguably LESS miserable than we’d be if a negative event occurred while we weren’t vigilant - in other words, we’re choosing the lesser of two evils.

Are you someone who has difficulty tolerating uncertainty in life & at work? If so, this is a common trap for worry!