Lynn Toler Instagram – I don’t know what was with dude in the yellow car. I could speculate but why? Instead I will use the action as a metaphor for the futility of #worry and What Iffing. Life’s too liquid to make that kind of thing valuable. Who could have predicted that last part? That’s the dumb thing about worry. So I’ve been trying to get out of the business of anticipating what’s next. I still plan and prepare but I’m fighting the urge to think too far past a point where a whole lot of possibilities intersect. Three times this week I have run into some Spaghetti Junction-like kerfuffles. Typically that kind of thing would throw me into a washing machine of worry, just going around and around wet, worn out and spin cycle dizzy. But I have a new rule. I get to consider no more than two of the most likely outcomes and I can only think about it for five minutes. I time myself on the phone stopwatch. Then I go clean. After that I paint or crochet. What that does is throw up borders around my worry. If I surround myself with things that are immediately achievable (a cleaner house) mixed with the acknowledgment that I have been granted a new day and a comfortable life that allows for no small measure of joy. (I both paint and crochet poorly but I enjoy them) I can contain racing thoughts better. I am all about process and procedure. I work my #emotions like the job they are. Black car did everything it could to avoid an accident but got rear ended by something he couldn’t anticipate. We all need to be #emotionally prepared to deal w/ things that happen for which we aren’t. That’s what my #podcast is going to be about. Ways to manage your #emotional terrain in a day and age where new weird and worrisome shows up in 5G all day. In the past when change was slower we had more time to adjust. Now … 😑 Live large Love languidly #Worry Less. If you have questions you’d like me to answer on my podcast put them in my DMs. I’m putting that out there so I’ll do it. I have yaaaaards of #lazy I have to get through. My lesser self does absolutely nothing with great aplomb. What an unfortunate thing to be good at! 🤣🤣 Happy Thursday!