Up until recently, I was a big worrier. I got it from my mom.
When I worried about little things, and it was annoying my dad, he’d say, “Stop worrying about it. I’ll give you something to worry about.”
You know, saying that things could be worse. I know that he was trying to help me, but it didn’t work. 
Many years later I learned from Abraham that worry is an attractive energy, but it attracts what I don’t want instead of what I do want.
So I try not to worry any more. But it doesn’t always work.
Here’s a short story about how I very quickly manifested something I was worried about, and something that I had only fretted about for a moment.
I was making tea the other night so that the kids and I could take it out and drink it on the front porch steps. It was a cool night and I thought drinking the warm tea outside would be a nice, cozy contrast (and the kids could learn a bit about night bugs 
).
My daughter, who just turned 5, asked if she could put her own fructose in her tea. I have the fructose in an old (from the ’70s), oddly-shaped Tupperware sugar container, and it was low, so I showed her how to scoop it out, and let her go at it.
It spilled.
I immediately went into fret mode… “don’t want ants, don’t want ants, got to clean this up right away!!”
I grabbed a nearby spray bottle of vinegar water, sprayed down the floor and wiped it up. Done. I was sure I got all the fructose and I wouldn’t have to worry about ants in the kitchen. I breathed a sigh of relief, and finished sweetening her tea.
I pushed the mugs aside (and out of reach of the 2 year old) to cool a bit and walked to the living room to wait.
On my way down the steps to our living room, I noticed - you guessed it - a huge ant running all about a little white cardboard tray.
It was up on the railing to the living room, four feet off the ground.
There were no other ants around.
There was no explanation as to why this one, single ant was in that strange place at that exact moment, except to say, “Here you go! Here’s that ant you ordered!!”
I knew it the moment I saw it, and actually laughed out loud.
The whole episode reminded me of what I suggest to other people who are starting the process of consciously creating their lives. These are people who are concerned that they don’t know how to think about what they want, how to focus on the positive.
They worry that they can’t visualize, and therefore won’t be able to purposely create what they want in their lives (hmmm, think this is fodder for another post 
).
So, in my attempt to help them, I tell them, “I’ll give you something to worry about!”
I recommend that they “worry” for what they want!
- Worry that you’ll have too much money and won’t know what to do with it all!
- Worry that you’ll have perfect health and so much energy that you’ll feel guilty sitting around watching TV when you could be taking a bike ride with the kids.
- Worry that you’ll find such a perfect partner that you can’t get enough of time together with them and your friends are having to vie for your time and attention.
Get the idea?
Now I’ve got to go take my own advice and worry about a few things that I want in my life. 
Thanks to bill hails for the use of his Flickr photo.
Remember your power. Feel your power. Embrace your power.
