Instead of focussing on the negatives in the situation, deliberately discover what is still going right.
In choosing your perspective you are keeping the problem from consuming you.
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Imagining your own advice if you were counseling a friend on making the decision can help you understand what an outsider's perspective might be.
Because you're in the middle of a situation, your views are distorted, but on the outside, you might see things differently.
Non-worriers are able to distance themselves from a situation in order to gain perspective. Worriers can do that too by thinking of all the worst possible scenarios, and evaluating their likelihood of happening.
Another strategy is to talk about yourself in the third person so...
Remind yourself of what is going well in your life. Consider the best and worst that could happen.
What’s the worst-case scenario here? Is this situation really as bad as it could get? Probably not. Take action to fix the problem and move on.
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