Why You Should Never Worry
November 26th, 2006Over the years I have been researching personal development material I have come across the words “you are always in the right place at the right time” on a number of occasions. At first I wasn’t sure whether or not I believed this as there have been certain times in my life that I most definitely felt like I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, what I have come to understand from my life’s journey is that I am always in the right place at the right time. In fact, there is no other place I could possibly be.
When you consider that at every moment of your life when you need to be making decisions you have nothing else to draw on but your previous experiences, be them good or bad. For example, you are walking alone at night and have to make a decision whether to take a short cut to your home through a dark quiet street or take the long way home through a well lit area with many people around. Person 1 has been mugged on a dark quiet street before so he decides to take the long way. Person 2 has never been mugged and has never had any troubles on dark deserted streets so she opts to take the short way. This is a very simple example but I’m sure you get the point. What I am saying is that at the moment we make any decision we usually draw on the past events of our lives. On those occasions when we don’t look back to past experiences, particularly when we are facing something completely new, we simply choose to do what feels right from within. I mean, what else can we do? We are not going to choose to do what feels wrong, so we follow our instincts and go with what feels right.
As we all know, not every decision we make ends with a favorable outcome in our lives, or not on the surface anyway. Sometimes we make decisions that seem to cause us immeasurable grief but as hard as it is to come to terms with, we could never have made any other choice at the time. We don’t have the benefit of hindsight so worrying about our decisions is a complete waste of time and not in the least bit constructive. When I mentioned that a decision we make may not have a favorable outcome on the surface, what I was referring to was it may have a pleasant outcome down the track. Often the unfavorable events of our lives are a catalyst for long needed change, so what seemed like a poor decision in the beginning can result in much better quality of life in the long term. In a round about way this is how I became interested in the power of the mind and personal development as I saw it as a way out from a life I thought could be much better than it was and I was right. The more I learn about the mind and how to develop myself as a person the happier my life becomes. So all the time I spent worrying about my poor decisions would have been better spent on making plans for a better life. My life only started to improve when I stopped worrying.
Forgive me for assuming but I guess if you are reading this article on a personal development website you have also made what seemed like poor decisions in the past and those decisions ultimately lead you to look for answers. I hope from what I have said you can see that those decisions you made at the time that lead you to where you are today were inevitable and you, like me and everybody else could not be anywhere else than where we are today.
Now that I understand I am always in the right place at the right time I know that I never need to worry about anything. Sure things happen sometimes that I don’t always like but instead of wasting time worrying about it, I look at the situation and see how I can learn from my decision and then just get on with making things better. One thing is for sure, worrying will never fix any situation but you can. Don’t look back at the decision, look now for the solution.
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Good post! From my perspective, there’s another good reason you should never worry: it creates stress which can suppress your immune system and cause you to be susceptible to illness.
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