Tracking your anxious predictions is an easy way to correct your mind’s tendency to overestimate the likelihood of bad things happening.
Here are a couple of fun ways to do it.
- Fill your right pocket with 10 pennies or Tic Tac candies.
- During the day, each time you predict something bad might happen move one of the pennies or Tic Tac candies to the left pocket but only if the prediction comes true.
- Or, take two boxes of Tic Tac candies in different colors (for example, white and blue).
- Each time you make an anxious prediction, eat a white Tic Tac from the box.
- If the anxious prediction comes true then eat a blue Tic Tac.
At the end of the day or week, check the number of Tic Tac candies in each box.
