Political fear, financial stress, spousal disconnect, or children acting out? How to be free of anxiety? Not promising solutions but lets try. Anxiety-free means a certain amount of humbleness and competence. People free of anxiety do not go beyond their circle of competence and keep trying and deserving the good in life through wisdom and intelligence. They need to focus on what they can control. They get themselves better because they only have control over themselves. That means they do not try to change others. They do not criticize others but criticize themselves. It is through destroying their own beloved ideas every year and criticizing themselves that leads to Wisdom and Enlightenment. Intelligence , in my definition, is simply but importantly, not going beyond what you are capable of and knowing your beloved ideas may be wrong. A person who has an IQ of 120 but do work that requires an IQ of 100 will undoubtly in time be successful and become anxiety-free. A person who has an IQ of 140 but is doing things that require an IQ of 150 is likely to be anxious and will eventually fail.
Why are we anxious? There is so much going on with technology and so many changes. It is the nature of modern life. How do you deal with it? FOCUS. Focus on staying within your circle of competence and being intelligent (see above for meaning of intelligence.) Focus on what you are capable of doing. Go for the first downs and not the touchdowns. Go for the field goals if you are stressed to the fourth down. The good kicker is needed too. Hit the singles not the home runs. Stay within a margin of safety. how do you eat an elephant? piece by piece. don't bite off more than you can chew. When you are focused and staying in your circle of competence, you can be as fast as you can in decision-making. the key is to criticize yourself and recognize when you made a mistake and destroying your beloved idea. When making decisions where there is not a irreversible outcome, you can be fast but keep destroying your wrong ideas and make corrections just as fast. It is really trial and error and the scientific method.
I greatly admire the janitor who donated one million dollars to schools because she kept doing her janitorial work over and over again. Saved the dollars and in time is able to do incredible donations. She stayed focused in her circle of competence and made fast decisions and likely corrected mistakes just as fast.