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Originally Posted by Perna
I feel you did act on what worried you, IceCreamKid, by ignoring the things that weren't important; you actually looked at whether what you worried about was worth acting on or not. I like my tag line because it reminds me to "do" something, not just think, and you did something by distracting or deciding not to think about what worried you because you didn't find it important enough to think about. You "let go" and that is as much an action, and often as hard as, deciding to change jobs for less stress or more happiness, etc.
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I meant no criticism of your tagline, and in looking over my other posts here I realize that I still have emotional work to do because there are a couple of triggers that make me extremely sad, from zero to 60, just about. I feel I should qualify what I said because while some things I was stressing over weren't and aren't important (I used to stress over whether my hair was perfect, for example, and since I am not a shampoo commercial model, c'mon, whether my hair is perfect is a dumb thing for me to worry about) many of the other things I worried about (particularly after September 11) are indeed important enough to think about, but
my thinking about them was not productive and in fact was harmful to myself and to my family who has to live with me. So I let go and decided to trust God is in control. God knows the hour and the day, and I can quit worrying about
that. Instead of that vicious, circular worrying I used to do just about 24/7 I have tried to do and think what was in
my realm of possibility with an eye out for good results. Of course, being alive, I'm still a work in progress, huh?
Have a nice weekend and thanks for replying.
