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Are You Stuck In A Future That Has Not Yet Begun?

It’s not that different from being stuck in the past

Wendy Miller
4 min readAug 16, 2021
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Do you constantly feel like all you can do is worry about the future? Like you are right there at the edge of what you should be doing but can quite get there? It’s possible that you are stuck in a future that has not yet begun, and this isn’t necessarily a good thing.

What It Means To Be Stuck In The Future

You have probably heard of people being stuck in the past. But when it comes to being stuck in the future, you may have no idea what this means. Well just like being stuck in the past means you spend too much time thinking about the past, being stuck in the future means you spend too much time thinking about the future. And not in a good way.

When you spend all of your time worrying about the future, this can not only cause stress and anxiety but this can also lead to you missing things that are happening in the present. And before you know it, you will wake up one day to find that your whole life has passed you by.

Why Are You Stuck In The Future?

In order to be able to focus more on the present, you need to figure out why you are stuck in the future. And often times this happens because you are…

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Wendy Miller
Wendy Miller

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