🎯 Goal: Stress management
⏰ Time: 10 minutes
⚠️ Difficulty: 2 (Easy)
Summary:
When your worries feel infinite, there’s something deeply reassuring about writing them all down and getting to the end of the list. You realize that your problems are finite. There is, in fact, an end in sight.
The worry list is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a list of everything you’re worried about personally, professionally, and otherwise. Write these worries down so you can address them one by one
Instructions:
- Open a page below
- Start Writing. Write down every worry, anxiety, or unfinished to-do on your mind. Include work, life, personal, and anything else on your mind.
- Include Irrational and Intangible Worries. Don’t limit your list to physical tasks. Write down every irrational worry or intangible to do on your mind. Ex: “Am I being a good partner? How do I make $100k this year?”
- Write Until You’re Exhausted. There should be nothing left on your mind.
- Cross off things you can’t control. With your list completed, cross off those irrational and intangible worries over which you have no control.
- Plan to Address the Rest. Now, all that’s left are tasks you can control. Schedule them on your calendar or get them done immediately. Cross them off one by one.
Worry Lists