“At least a portion of your mind is really kind of stupid. If it had an innate intelligence, it would remind you of the things you needed to do only when you could do something about them.” [David Allen - Getting Things Done]
In his famous book, David Allen says we often worry at very inappropriate times:
- You are having a nice dinner, and in the back of your mind you’re worrying about tomorrow’s meeting.
- You are enjoying a well deserved holiday, but you can’t stop thinking of what you’ll need to do when you get back home.
In order increase both productivity and peace of mind, Allen proposes a comprehensive method for “Getting Thing Done,” which could help you becoming more effective.
On the other hand if you don’t worry just of your to-do list Allen’s book will be of limited help in calming your mind: you need other tools to deal with other kinds of worries.
So what are you worrying about? Take a look at the following list, and see if you recognize yourself at least in one of the 7 worrier profiles. I’ll then describe a set of strategies which you can use to reduce your worries.
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Many individuals view life as an amazing, fun journey filled with diverse events and accompanied by various feelings, colors and encounters. Others view life as a learning process, and an opportunity to discover new things, phenomena and interesting patterns. How about a life that incorporates both approaches? It would be wonderful, especially because they are very interconnected. It is difficult to have fun and experience exciting things without having the resources to do that, which are earned or obtained through knowledge and education. It is also true the other way around, because a life of continuous learning seems empty without having fun, applying the knowledge and implementing it in exciting experiences and colorful sensations.
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Some people are always listened to. What they say matter, and everyone pays attention whenever they speak. 