A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

John Lubbock

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Get it done now. The anxiety of continually thinking about a task you're not doing, and beating yourself up over it, is often more difficult (and time-consuming) than actually doing it.

Nervous people tend to overreact.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Observe a stressful thought. Notice how your shoulders tense, your stomach tightens, you hold your breath. Keep watching that same thought. Don't push it away, instead change your reaction to it. Breathe deeply, let go, relax your body. You're okay. It's just a thought. Breathe.

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

Over-thinking causes unnecessary stress and worry, and tends to blow things out of proportion.

Melissa Eshleman

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