MORNING ANXIETY, PROCRASTINATION AND THE DAWN OF PRESENCE
By lifehack.org - by David Erichsen
Until recently, I cannot remember
the last time I felt that I had experienced a manageable morning. From my
experience, mornings have always brought about a great deal of stress in my
life and for the longest time I was completely befuddled. Why did I always wake
up with a head full of chaos and an impending sense of doom lurking over my
shoulder? I always got up on the wrong side of the bed, and no matter what I
felt like I was showing up late to life.
Just as many other facets of my
existence, I conceded that this unwelcome thought pattern was simply another
faulty circuit hardwired into my brain. Many people are burdened with anxiety
in the morning, so in this fashion I was correct, but what I did not realize
was that I self-inflicted this phenomenon to a greater extent than most.
Instead of seeing the anxiety for what it was, a feeling, I treated it as an
unwelcome guest of whom I desperately persuaded to leave By doing so I falsely
validated this anxiety as a fact, and solidified its place in my thought cycle.
Procrastination
is fear.
Usually, my morning anxiety
populates as an ongoing list of things I have to get done by the time I rest my
head to sleep at night. In the past, I built up a steady routine of worrying
for the majority of the day, pondering different ways that I could fail at
getting everything done. I call this procrastination.
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