How do you become enlightened and have a zen like composure instead of over thinking and worrying?

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I’m enlightened and pretty zen. But one of the most common complaints people have against me is “you think too much.”

I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing this over the years. I tend to make lightning-fast connections. And I stay interested in things long after most people stop being interested. And I’ve spent many years learning how to use computers and the Internet to find answers to questions.

All these things make my mind like a pitbull grabbing on to questions with an iron grip until I obtain the answers I’m looking for.

But one thing I don’t do is worry. I want things to go my way but I don’t sweat it if they don’t. It’s simply not in my makeup to spend a whole lot of time doing contingency planning. It’s more like, oh if I lose my job and can’t find another one quickly I’ll just move back home.

In the past I seriously considered homelessness, living in a vehicle and whatnot. For some reason the idea was somewhat appealing to me at the time. I could just do whatever I wanted. Spend time at the library, devour whatever books I could find. Keeping clean would be a challenge, but not anything I couldn’t overcome.

My mind was always focused on positives, and if there were ever negatives, I’d think about how to mitigate them.

I think where one over-dramatizes hardship is where worry starts setting in. I’m not afraid of hardship. I won’t choose it over the alternative, but whatever happens, happens, and I’m not going to sweat over it. Plus unless my mind is gone I can always scheme ways to make things better.

Some people refuse to have any faith in their own ingenuity. Me, I will accept whatever situation I’m in and work to make it better.

Over-thinking is a great tool to have in your toolbox. Worry, I’d leave that on the shelf. Any time you find yourself over-concerned with negative possibilities ask yourself, is this something I really won’t be able to overcome? “But what if X happens?” Sure, what if X happens? It probably won’t, but what if it does? I bet you could get out of that too if you set your mind to it.

Give yourself credit. You’re way smarter than you probably think.