w/ regards to this one detail: >Write down your worries and problems. Most are temporary rather than permanent, local rather than global, acute rather than chronic. Helps to put things into perspective. Can't overstate the importance of this key component: Turning the chaotic sea of worries into an organized list of things you can change and things you can't. I've learned there are two huge takeaways from this: First, actually writing things down I find is more about personal style. My own style I much prefer to talk out loud when I'm by myself, as though I was talking to a future version of myself. Regardless, writing it or speaking it forces you to serialize the emotions, focusing on one at a time. As you read it back or listen to yourself talk, the rational part of the brain kicks in to start the problem solving. Second, distinguish worries that you can control from those you can't. Focus on the things you can control, while relieving yourself of being responsible for the things you can't control. For problems that you can't control but still have a direct impact on you, you can control your responses to them.