Have you ever spent a whole evening worrying about a bridge you were not even standing on?
I have. I once lost sleep over a meeting that was three weeks away. I rehearsed every question, every answer, every way it could go wrong. When the day finally came, it was over in twenty minutes and nothing I had imagined happened.
The mind is generous with problems that do not exist yet.
Here is what I have learned. Most of the strain in life is not the work in front of us. It is the weight of crossing every future bridge at the same time.
So come back to the one you are on. What is the next plank under your feet? The email to send. The page to read. The conversation to have today.
Walk that one well.
The next bridge will appear when you reach it, and you will meet it with more experience than you have right now.
You do not have to cross everything today. You only have to cross what is in front of you.
Which bridge are you standing on right now?
