{"id":38676,"date":"2021-06-15T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=38676"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:21:33","slug":"anxiety-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/anxiety-about-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety About the Future: It&#8217;s All in Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you often find yourself ruminating about the past or filled with anxiety about the future? How can you consciously refocus your thoughts away from the far-off future and onto today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too often, we focus on the unchangeable past and the far-off future rather than fully living in the certain present. Though it may seem like anxiety about the future or dwelling in the past can easily ruin your life, the solution is quite simple\u2014focusing on the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you can refocus your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overcoming Anxiety About the Future One Day at a Time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The most basic way to combat worry is training yourself to shut your mind off completely from the worries of yesterday and tomorrow, instead focusing all your attention and energy on the present moment. This is essential to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ways-to-alleviate-stress-and-anxiety\/\">alleviating stress and anxiety<\/a>. <strong>When you worry about the past and future, those stresses and anxieties get added to your present load\u2014you\u2019ll always be carrying three times the weight you need to.<\/strong> When you\u2019re carrying the weight of excess worry, you\u2019re easily stretched to your mental limits. This causes anxiety and unclear, disorganized thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, shutting out worries about the past and future ensures that you\u2019re only carrying one day\u2019s worth of stress at a time, which allows you to keep your thinking clear and logical.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Prepare for the Future by Living One Day at a Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Not <em>worrying<\/em> about the future doesn\u2019t mean that you shouldn\u2019t prepare for it. Of course, it\u2019s necessary to save for retirement, plan your week\u2019s schedule, and so on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But always keep in mind that no one can predict what\u2019s to come\u2014the <em>only<\/em> thing in life that you can control is the present moment. Trying to prepare for the future by trying to predict what will happen is a waste of your time.<strong> Instead, prepare for the future by doing today\u2019s obligations as well as you possibly can\u2014therefore making things easier for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/your-future-self\/\">your future self<\/a>.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>For example, instead of fretting about whether you\u2019ll have enough money for retirement, focus on ways to start saving <em>today<\/em>\u2014such as creating a budget, setting up a meeting with a financial advisor, or simply outlining your savings goals for the year.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important to understand that tackling today\u2019s obligations <em>as well as you possibly can<\/em> doesn\u2019t mean taking them all on at once or speeding through them. Consider this analogy: Your mind is an hourglass, and the sand inside is made up of your tasks, responsibilities, meetings, and so on. When you allow these grains of sand through the hourglass\u2019s narrow opening one at a time, everything functions as it should. Everything gets done slowly and evenly. But if you were to try and squeeze a whole handful of sand through the opening at once, you\u2019d damage the hourglass, clogging it or breaking it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to take on too many tasks at once will make you a nervous, worried, disorganized mess. Instead, tackle your day one task at a time and focus your energy on doing that task as best you can\u2014this will create a calm, efficient thought process where everything works as it should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reconnect With Your Life by Living One Day at a Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When you focus on doing \u201ctoday\u201d as best you can, you naturally interrupt a wasteful thought process that many of us are guilty of\u2014putting off living our lives because we\u2019re focused on a far-off, attractive future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When you\u2019re a child, you talk about what you want to do \u201cwhen I\u2019m older.\u201d In your teenage years, you think about life \u201cwhen I\u2019m an adult.\u201d In college, you think about \u201cwhen I have a job.\u201d Once you\u2019re on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/career-path-development\/\">career path<\/a>, you dream about what you\u2019ll do \u201cwhen I make a better salary\u201d or \u201cwhen I retire.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The tragedy of this thinking is that you arrive at the end of your life and realize that you spent so much time looking forward to the future that you missed the life you were living in the present.<strong> Living one day at a time helps engage you more deeply with the life that\u2019s sitting right in front of you.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Worry May Be Costing You Your Health<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Besides better immersing you in the present, mitigating worry also helps you avoid serious mental and physical manifestations of worry. <\/strong>It\u2019s relatively unsurprising that doctors have repeatedly found strong correlations between worry and mental illnesses such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/low-mood-and-anxiety\/\">depression and anxiety<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s more surprising is that worry is also closely linked with serious physical symptoms. <\/strong>Worry can manifest physically as ulcers, headaches, insomnia, cardiac issues, diabetes, and rashes\u2014just to name a few.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: To illustrate this point, Carnegie cited several medical studies that are now outdated. 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