No matter what happens in life, many things are beyond your control. You cannot control the cop deciding to pull you over for two miles per hour over the speed limit, you cannot control what the person said to you at work, you cannot control when your car breaks down, and you cannot control that the judge thinks your butt came up on the bench.
You can’t control any of it. Much of the stress in our life comes in worrying about these things. Sometimes entire training cycles are destroyed because of stressing out about this. Well, what if this suit doesn’t fit right and I can’t get it broken in or altered in time? What if this exercise doesn’t have the response I think it should and I can’t hit a PR at the meet? What if this, what if that? What if, what if, what if, what if, what if. All of these things lead to anxiety.
The book “Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers” can be briefly summarized simple statement: when the predator isn’t there, they aren’t stressed anymore. They don’t think about the what-ifs. They only think about the right-nows. Watch Animal Planet or National Geographic or whatever animal channels there are now; five minutes after the chase is completed, the zebra goes back to eating grass and hanging out.... (CLICK for the ENTIRE ARTICLE)<<<<
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