Sometimes, realizing just how out of whack your predictometer is can help you shift your tendency to overfocus on scary outcomes. At times, this awareness alone is enough to help you step out of the anxiety box, at least for a moment. Look at one of Tyra’s Predictions Worksheets (sample exercise 5.3). Using several worksheets over two months, she wrote all her worst-case predictions about finding a job, her health, the welfare of her family, and the state of the world.

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