I Postponed My Worries, and Here’s How That Went

Worry postponement is exactly what it sounds like—a deliberate choice to put off worrying for another time. This is different from saying you won’t worry. Because you will. This is more about taking control and managing your worry, proactively deciding how much of an impact you want it to have on your life.

result of living a project-driven life, crammed not with atelic activities but telic ones, the primary purpose of which was to have them done, and to have achieved certain outcomes.

One can waste years this way, systematically postponing precisely the things one cares about the most.

Worry postponement can be done in a few different ways, but it’s all about setting deliberate and conscious limits to worry. Like drawing a little fence around it.

The main way we try to resist this horrifying state of affairs is by worrying. What is worry, at its core, but the activity of a mind attempting to picture every single bridge that might possibly have to be crossed in future, then trying to figure out how to cross it?