There’s nothing wrong with boundless optimism or even expecting that everything will go perfectly.
But what helped me was someone else with anxiety saying that if you always imagine the worst possible scenario and its fallout, you also have to be fair and recognize that it’s equally likely that the best scenario plays out! That’s not just being fair to yourself, that’s probability!
You know what they say are the two happiest days of a boat-owners life, right? The day they buy a gun and a boat, and the day they have to shoot their boat.
I’ve got a wicked scar on my right hand that can attest to that! I was riding my bike home from my supermarket job as a teenager without a light… While holding my Sobe drink in my hand… I didn’t see a retaining wall log that had fallen down onto the sidewalk so I hit it, tire-first. I flew over the handlebars and my hand landed on the bottle as it broke. Severed a nerve in the hand and damn-near hit an artery. Surgery to repair that, and I still have some numbness in it. Live and learn, but I’ll always think of that when someone mentions Sobe!