As the years have gone by, I’ve tried to get my worry under control. I’ve made a concerted effort to do contingency planning and then leave it alone. But honestly, it’s a daily struggle for me. Let’s face it, I’ve got eight active kids strewn across the Western Hemisphere. They are constantly doing things the\u00a0might<\/em> create problems for them. And when problems to arise, I’m the first one to\u00a0get the call. So\u00a0some amount<\/em> of worry is justified on my part. On the other hand, my worry usually solely suffices in draining my energy.<\/p>\n So this weekend, when I saw this quote from Corrie Ten Boom, I found a reason to stop worrying. Or at least to keep my worrying to a more reasonable level.<\/p>\n If you’re a worrier this might be something to think about to help you stop too!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’m a worrier. When I think about the defining characteristics of my personality, it’s obvious that one of the most significant is my worrying. I like to reframe it as\u00a0contingency planning, but that’s not really accurate. One of my strengths is my ability to consider the different possible outcomes of various situations and then create […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[129,130],"class_list":["post-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings","tag-perfectionist","tag-productivity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Worry](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Worry-Stone.jpg?resize=250%2C155&ssl=1\")
I’m sure I come by this worrying genetically. When I was in my early teens, my family went on a driving vacation throughout the Western United States. At one of the numerous curio shops where we stopped, we found and purchased a\u00a0worry stone<\/em> for my grandmother. It was an onyx oval with a small depression where she could rub her thumb back and forth. At the same time, I got one for myself. When my grandmother died, her worry stone was given to me. Comparing her stone and mine, I discovered that she’d worn away about half the depressed area of the onyx. With just her thumb she’d rubbed that onyx enough to wear it down! That’s\u00a0industrial strength<\/strong> worrying right there!<\/p>\n![\"Worry](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Worry-Quote-Corrie-Ten-Boom.jpg?resize=640%2C427&ssl=1\")
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