Mary’s Minute
“When you spend your time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination
to create things you don’t want.”
~ Shannon L. Adler
The Boy Scout motto is to be prepared, and part of that means
anticipating what can go wrong. How do
we balance, anticipating the bad that can be possible in order to avoid it, and
filling our mind with negativity? Worry
is dwelling on the things we don’t want to happen and that are often out of our
control.
Our imaginations are powerful tools for creating possibilities. The talk inside our heads becomes the fodder
for what we believe and how we behave.
When worry fills our minds, with the wheels spinning about all that can
go wrong, we are wasting powerful thought that could be creating new ideas and
events.
We often say to ourselves or others, “Don’t worry,” but in reality it
isn’t a switch we can turn off. We can,
however, fill our minds with possibilities of good whether than defeatist options. When you find yourself, sleepless imagining
the worst case scenario, instead imagine the best case scenario and envision
what that would look like. Focus on the
things we can control and imagine the very best.
There are times when we need to put on our Scout hat in order to think
of the negative possibilities in order to prepare, but it is important to trade
that cap for our thinking caps most of the time, as we imagine all the great
things that are possible when we let our imaginations take over.
Have a
great week!
Mary
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