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# “Now’s not the time, honey!”
- URL: https://www.gilespcroft.com/nows-not-the-time-honey/
- Published: 2026-05-26T06:00:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T06:00:34.000Z
- Description: It's one thing to know that worry is pointless. It's another thing to catch yourself! 🥺
- Author: Giles P Croft
- Tags: Moods, Anxiety, Attention, IMPLICATIONS, Real stories, Relationships, Stress, Thought realisation

There was a day when I'd been in a seriously low mood.

It looked like a ‘bad’ day – I had very little to show for it (although, in retrospect I'd done a ton of research and prep-type work).

But that didn't matter, because at the time, my life was just full of insurmountable problems.

It was evening, I hadn't written the next day's Daily Reminder, I was looking down the barrel of a 5am start the next day, and the thing I'd been fretting about all day did not have any solutions.

Added to that, I remembered I'd put washing on and had laundry to hang out on the airer!

😫

On my way there, miserable as sin, I stopped in front of my wife, herself beavering away on her laptop, to talk about it with her. Again!

> *“I just don't know what to do,”* I concluded, utterly lost.

She looked up, half smiled and replied,

> *“Oh, you're trying to solve that one now, are you?”*

Ha! It was enough to snap me out of it, for a moment. A dose of my own medicine – an obvious reminder that I was guilty of using the [wrong tool for the job](https://www.gilespcroft.com/right-tool-for-the-job/) (i.e. the processing mind, for something that needed a fresh new solution).

 A bit lighter—having disengaged from analysis for a while—I busied myself with chores – unloading the dishwasher, getting stuck into the laundry, generally clattering about and doing stuff…

…and not even *noticing* that I'd ground to a halt and slipped back into pro-level worrying again until my wife, who had noticed that I had gone silent, shouted through from the other room,

> *“Now's not the time, honey!”*

😂🤣

All I can say is, I wish for you that special someone who'll call you out when you're taking your thinking too seriously.

Failing that, there's always the Daily Reminders.

😘

Giles

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