Chronophobia is the fear of the future. Some people are afraid of the approaching future for different reasons. Read this article to know few symptoms about chronophobia, reasons for it and cure.
Symptoms
Loose of focus
You won’t have enough focus to keep up a task. You’ll doubt if what you’re doing is worth doing and would want to try something new.
Too much thinking
What can i do? How can i do it? You would have countless thoughts going through your mind. You’ll especially think about the future and fear if you’d make it
Believing too much
Since you’re unsure about what to do to have a successful future, you’ll want to believe almost anything people tell you. this would result to…
Too much activities
The fear of the future would make you become very unsettled. You’d want to do almost anything and yet you won’t have satisfaction with what you’re doing.
In-depth fear
No matter what you do, there’ll always be a fear within you. The fear of the future would make you dissatisfied in both thoughts and actions.
The fear of the future is felt by almost everyone at specific periods in their lives. If you’ve ever felt it or you’re feeling it now, here are some reasons why you’re afraid of the future.
Reasons for the fear of the future
Study of the society
In a situation where things are falling apart, people get scared. When a society is not as progressive as others, the youths in it become scared because of an unsettled mind.
Failed promises
Maybe you’ve planned your life relying on the promises of others and theses people later fail you. This would make you become afraid of the future because you would not know where to start from.
Mistakes
Have you done something confidently and later find out you’ve been wrong all along? How do you feel afterwards? Less sure of yourself right? This is one reason why some people become scared of the future.
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Lack of encouraging words
Encouraging words keep people going. When people make mistakes, they need others to correct them calmly. What if you make a mistake and no one is there for you? it’ll probably weaken you
Bad occurrences
This is one of the most common reasons why people feel the fear of the future. People get scared quickly when bad things happen to them almost all the times. You’d feel hopeless when things don’t work out as planned almost all the times
Laziness
How true the statement ‘no food for the lazy man’. When a lazy man thinks of his future, he’ll only be afraid cause he knows he has done no hard-work to have a successful future
Sudden occurrence
Things have been working out well for you and all of a sudden, tragedy strikes. This may not give you the motivation to keep going and in turn, be afraid of the future.
Unable to plan
‘Who fails to plan, plans to fail’. These words ring like bells in my mind every time. When you fail to plan, no doubt, you’d surely fail and since it’s not a hidden fact, it has made people who fail to plan to feel the fear of the future
Unable to initiate plans
One thing is to plan, another thing is the execute the plan. It scares us when we have no way we can execute our plans.
Ignorance
If truly, knowledge is power and wealth, what then would be the opposite of knowledge which is ignorant? Wouldn’t it be chronophobia? Of course it would. Learn to know more
The fear of the future is caused by many other reasons not stated in this article but these ones listed above are the most popular reasons. Knowing the root of a problem makes you knowledgeable but solving the problem makes you even more knowledgeable. What can we do to reduce the fear of the future? keep on reading
How to overcome the fear of the future?
Plan your life
Plan well. Know your wish-list and also know how to reach it. Planning isn’t ‘in the future, am going to be an astronaut’, planning is getting the step by step procedures of being what you want to be
Don’t miss any detail
When you’re planning, make sure it’s step by step and don’t leave a detail. When you execute and are working in harmony with your plan, make sure you don’t miss out on any step. Read Getting successful with time and harmony to understand
Find help
Find help with regards financial sponsors, mentors, and whoever can add value to you with regards your goals. Remember not to count your chicks before they hatch. This means you should not rely fully on anyone cause people can fail you.
Find encouraging people
When you’re with people who encourage you, you’d likely be do. Let’s say you want to be a musician but everyone are opposing you. Can you continue? Not likely, but when you’re with people who encourage you, you’d likely become a great musician.
Read encouraging articles
Encouraging articles are a great way of curing the fear of the future. If you’re having this fear articles like this one you’re reading and many others ( like this) have a positive impact on you.
Become qualified and prepared
When opportunity meets preparedness, success is bound to occur. Although opportunity comes, it’s as good as worthless when you have not prepared for it.
Be sociable
Meet new people. You never know where inspiration and motivation may come from. You don’t know if the person nearest to you right now is the source of your breakthrough. Meeting new people have great benefits.
Save
Do you know that $1m is a combination of lots of $1? of course you do. If you need $1m to execute your plans, save for it or find any means necessary to generate it. Make sure though that you get your funds from legal means.
Never give up
Rome was not built in a day. The fear of the future may take a while before you stop to feel it but when you keep trying your best, you’ll surely overcome it.
Think positive thoughts
Optimism has always helped a lot of people go on. Never dwell in the past, always positively move on. There’s a rainbow in the future as Katy Perry sang.
Don’t think too much
Thoughts are only nice when they’re positive. Negative thoughts have more harm to you than benefits. If you must think, think about innovation and solution. Don’t dwell in the past
Use the three magic words
Please, sorry and thank you, are powerful words that can draw people closer to you When you offend someone, say sorry. When you need something from someone, say please and when someone offers help to you, say thank you. These words will go a long way to attracting more positive people to you.
Learn more
Become more knowledgeable. Since knowledge is power and wealth, knowing more makes you to be more powerful and you’d be fully able to overcome your fear of the future when you apply what you know.
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