If I won the lottery

Recently I read a news article about someone having won the largest lottery prize in USA history. Said to be a gross figure of $1.6 billion, it is expected to thoroughly change someone’s life. I spent the rest of that day musing about what I would do if I were to win such an entirely obnoxious amount of cash. This thought kept me entertained to the point that in bed that evening, I got out my computer and put together a spreadsheet setting out what I might spend all of that moolah on.

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No Anxiety Allowed…applied?

So what does “no anxiety allowed” look like? Does it look like never being thoughtful, never planning, never considering safety signs? If it does, surely there will be a lot of people who will not even consider it possible, much less attainable for the responsible adult. What if it’s not quite that extreme? Though we’ll end up trying the extremes along the way, what if it’s a personal sweet spot somewhere between being useless because of worry, and being careless in an effort to avoid worry?

The no anxiety life is the life of being free of the worries which cannot achieve actual results. It is the life where concern is allowed, but not permitted to grow into oppressive weight.

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NO Anxiety Allowed

Originally drafted early December 2015

The other day I had an inspired moment, and these words, “no anxiety allowed,” formed the last part of a brief passage I had been writing regarding some lifestyle growth.

Anxiety is, by and large, an important and loud voice in western society’s way of life. Games of the “what-ifs” make up decision-making processes in personal lives, families, schools, business and politics. A large proportion would struggle to know what to do about a decision if it weren’t for the “what-ifs.” Continue reading