As human beings with a God-given higher intellect, we tend to overthink most of the situations we encounter. We already plot out in our minds the way a potential confrontation is going to go down. We plan what we’re going to say in anticipation of what we think the other individual is going to do or say. We have expectations based on our faulty perceptions. When all is said and done it seldom plays out the way we had orchestrated in our minds. We have wasted a lot of mental energy and anguish, not to mention time, obsessing about the future event.
Today, make an effort to live in the present knowing that the future will usually take care of itself as it should be. No amount of planning based on the thoughts and actions of other people is going to change the outcome. As long as we live by our core values, doing the next right thing, we lose the potential for resentments that we often self-impose,
Jan M. Drury, M.S., C.L.C. jan@lifecoachingpartners.com
Life Coaching Partners, LLC 