Do This Every Year

Do This Every Year

85% of what people worried about never happened, I am not stating it randomly, research at Cornell University conducted a study that followed people over an extended time and found 85 percent of what people worried about never happened.

Sweden is Ranked the 13th Safest Country in the World. A baffling 63 percent of Sweden said they worried about crime and violence despite living in a relatively safe country.

So, we are now encountering the fact that what we are worried about, will not impact our lives that much in the future.

To get it to realization every year or whenever we are stuck at some point in our lives and in a situation of panic while thinking of something that is not going to happen, follow these steps :

  • Take out a blank paper
  • Divide it into 3 columns - Questions, What do we control, What do we not control.

Write down these 10 things in the questions segment :

  1. Your birth
  2. Your death
  3. Your parent's death
  4. Opinions of others
  5. Thoughts
  6. Happiness
  7. Ability to take action
  8. Building a new habit
  9. Being Lazy/ Productive
  10. Your circumstances

Now, fill it with what you control or what you don't. For example, if you control your birth, put a tick mark on the side of ' what you control '. I hope you any human will not go on this path :p

Moving forward, you fill up all the columns, and all your questions are now divided into what you control and what you don't. You must encounter a harsh reality check.

This reality check will help you to recover yourself from the delusion of worrying about something that is not true.

This exercise is from the book: 'MIND UNDER MICROSCOPE' by Abhilash CS.

You can also add questions that you are facing recently.

I do this kind of activity every year, mostly at the start of January. But these exercises have their sensitive side too, multiple times people went on existential crises after getting a reality check about themselves and the people around them.

Our death is not in our control but our health is in our control. Our emotions may get out of control, but expressing them and handling them with ease is in our control.

Watch this video to get more clarity on the above content :


Thank you for giving it a read, that's ' In The Ishank's Mind ', the first edition of 2024.

Will meet you next Tuesday.


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