One Thing at a Time

I’m so proud of myself. Normally I get so wrapped up in details and possible scenarios, and I hate feeling rushed. I’m always 20 steps ahead of myself, and trying to prepare for any and every possible outcome. In general, it is good to be prepared, but it became unhealthy for me.

Usually, weekend plans stress me out. Even if they are good ones. I worry about the timing and how I’ll be feeling, and I know I’ll feel rushed and ill-prepared, so I get a jump-start by going into it stressed by the potential for stress. Yeah.

Not to mention, I am mentally depleted. I need some introvert “recharge” time.

But this weekend, I worked on that. I reminded myself to just take it one thing at a time.

So Friday night when I had to stay out late and was worried about the physical activities I had the next day, I told myself to just stay present in the moment and worry about that tomorrow. If I was tired or unwell in some way, I could cancel. Stressing about it now doesn’t help anything.

And the next morning, I felt fine.

I was running through all the possible worst-case scenarios for one of my activities, and part of me didn’t even want to do it.

I asked myself what I needed to alleviate those problems. I needed to do some research and straighten some things out. What’s more, I decided I don’t have to do this alone. I can ask someone else to help me and take some of the stress off of me, since it helps everyone involved.

And so the stress was gone, and I was able to see the activity for the beautiful, refreshing thing that it was.

All better!

I was able to keep that calm and grateful state, and when my mind started to get rowdy, I soothed it back into its calm state again.

SO proud of myself.

Is there anything here that can help you with your stress, and allow you to be present in the moment?