10/08/2026
I used to run worst-case scenarios in my head constantly. Before meetings, before hard conversations, before anything that felt even a little bit uncertain. I'd build this whole disaster movie in my head and then walk around stressed about a plot that was never going to play out. I did this for years. I'd lay in bed at night going through every version of how something could go wrong and convince myself that at least one of those versions was definitely going to happen.
Looking back, almost none of it did. The stuff that actually went sideways came out of nowhere. No warning. No buildup. Just showed up one day and I had to deal with it.
Meanwhile the things I lost sleep over? They either resolved themselves or turned out to be nothing.
I stopped rehearsing disasters. The worrying never once changed the outcome, it just made the waiting worse.
What's something you stressed about for weeks that ended up being completely fine?