We're all a bit more anxious/pessimist than what's objectively needed for a situation - natural selection, etc. Writing about my plans has helped me give my an

We're all a bit more anxious/pessimist than what's objectively needed for a situation - natural selection, etc. Writing about my plans has helped me give my anxiety/pessimism a productive job: help me spot what makes me doubt/worry so I can probe further. Identifying these items where conviction is low, makes me explore my motivations, look up data to validate my claims and breakdown my plans further. The worrying becomes a task about finding what needs to be validated/double checked. If I'm assuming X isn't going to work because Y, then I can lookup evidence/data or make more specific questions. What I like about it is that it generates actionables - the worrying for it's own sake eats up my motivation but having a checklist of stuff that I need to look into gives me an outlet.