Banishing Worry

For the worries that have a “Y” in the influenceable column (and these should be all you have left as the “Ns” should have been disposed of as you can’t do anything about them) write down five actions you can take to mitigate the outcome of each remaining worry.  Now put these actions in the

If you have not already taken a break for a cup or glass of your favourite beverage, please take a moment now. You are making great progress, so you deserve it.

Flick through your top five worries. For any that you marked an “N” in the influence column of your master list, simply scrunch up the piece of paper with that worry on. You can do what you want with each of those scrunched up pieces of paper.  Recycling is best for the planet, but if

Now consider each individual worry on its own page carefully. Put a “Y” in the influence column on your master list if you can stop or reduce the chances of the worry actually happening, or to what extent it will happen. If you can’t influence or affect the outcome put an “N” in the column. 

You’re going to need some more paper now. Copy your number one worry to the top of what will be your number one worry page; do the same with number two, and so on. As you do so, put a tick in the “Sorted” column on your master list in anticipation of what is about

It is step two and time to get down to business. Mark out four columns on the page with the headings “Worries”, “Rank”, “Influence” and “Sorted”. Allow more space for the “Worries” column than the others. Then start listing out the worries that you have, keep going until they are all down.

Now you need to use your ranking column to prioritise your worries, with 1 the most troubling and work down from there. Computers do this by comparing neighbouring values and shuffling them up and down until the list is ranked in order of comparison. You are not a computer, though, so just get on and

You’ve now started the process. On each page click “Complete” and then Next to progress to the next step of the process.

It is true: the pen is mightier than the sword! Choose what colour writing implement you will use. The only restricting factor here is that you need to be able to clearly read what you have written. This is a totally personal decision! Will you be wild and brash with red ink; embrace nature and

You’ve now started the process. On each page click “Complete” and then Next to progress to the next step of the process.