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walkitoutIf I have recommended _The Worry Trick_ to you, and you maybe even got it from the library or bought it or whatever, and you have not read it, and you feel moderately bad about that because I recommended it to you and you or someone you know is very anxious (like, in a disabling, symptom-causing sort of way) and you just can’t figure out why you haven’t read it and that, too, is adding to your anxiety, I have news for you!
No one is still here, and I am okay with that.
Anyway.
I did not finish reading _Future Tense_ because the author advocates for anxiety as a way to motivate oneself to do … everything in life that needs to be done but that isn’t insanely fun and easy to do and gamified and wtf. It’s terrible advice so I DNF’d it. And I have been fucking _haunted_ by that book, as I realize again and again how many people I know who truly _suffer_ from anxiety are in fact using anxiety to motivate themselves to do all kinds of things.
The news part: I am working on a clear, simple presentation of an alternate motivation system. And I commit to _not_ nagging at you to let go of the anxiety motivational system until I have a Good Enough replacement system to offer you. I expect that if the alternative motivational system is Good Enough, that it will be dead easy to let go of the anxiety as soon as the alternative has been adopted. If it _isn’t_ good enough, I’ll just circle back around and incremental it until it is.
No one is still here, and I am okay with that.
Anyway.
I did not finish reading _Future Tense_ because the author advocates for anxiety as a way to motivate oneself to do … everything in life that needs to be done but that isn’t insanely fun and easy to do and gamified and wtf. It’s terrible advice so I DNF’d it. And I have been fucking _haunted_ by that book, as I realize again and again how many people I know who truly _suffer_ from anxiety are in fact using anxiety to motivate themselves to do all kinds of things.
The news part: I am working on a clear, simple presentation of an alternate motivation system. And I commit to _not_ nagging at you to let go of the anxiety motivational system until I have a Good Enough replacement system to offer you. I expect that if the alternative motivational system is Good Enough, that it will be dead easy to let go of the anxiety as soon as the alternative has been adopted. If it _isn’t_ good enough, I’ll just circle back around and incremental it until it is.