i’m freeing myself from all destructive doubt and fear

Vague dread cannot be argued with. It has no edges, so there is nothing to check. Write it on an index card — what specifically you think will happen, and by when — and it usually shrinks into something either manageable or plainly unlikely.

The ones that survive that test have earned your attention. They are real problems and can be worked on. The rest were fog. Naming is not a magic trick, but it does move a thing out of the category of atmosphere and into the category of item, and items can be dealt with.