Today I spend more energy on my goals than on my worries!

Worry runs on the same fuel as work. That is the entire problem — the forty minutes rehearsing an argument you will never have come out of the same account as the forty minutes on the thing that matters. You feel wrung out afterward, which makes it convincing. Effort was spent. Nothing moved.

The rehearsal has a tell: it repeats. Real thinking arrives somewhere new, while worry loops the same three frames.

When you catch the loop today, don't try to stop worrying. Just notice you have seen this scene before, and spend the next ten minutes elsewhere.