Maybe I'm stressing out too much because I'm yet to find proper housing to establish myself again after being away for over a year in the military. I'm generally an anxious person myself, but does anyone else feel the same, and how do you deal with it? How do you stay optimistic?
Don’t overthink! I experienced same stress before during pandemic since my job becomes temporarily close while I have a lot of fixed bills on monthly basis that need to be paid especially insurance.
I focus on my current resources and try sellings goods on social media which helps me a lot to get extra income. I live near the manufacturing area of goods which I resell it on lower price compared to retail. I will not overcome this stress if I will just overthink about the problem and stop finding solutions. Check what resources you have and capitalize on that to get extra profit that will cover your expenses.
I did the same thing as you selling online when my job or my office was closed. I had bills to pay every month even though I had no income at that time. The more I thought, the more stressed I became, so sometimes I didn't think too much about things. This is because we have to accept that when we are not well, I did what I could do, such as buying and selling online and in the end everything was fine until my financial condition improved over time.
We have all been through the hardships of the pandemic and up to now everything has been fine. When the pandemic hit at the beginning, i was very stressed because there were no customers visiting my place, in the end i survived with the rest of my savings and thank God everything was fine passed and my finances have improved, the point is we have to have savings that can cover ourselves and our family when emergencies arise.
This is where you would really be finding yourself or having that realizations that having a savings would really be that something a must or needed because on the times that we are living on which there are really moments or conditions on which you would really be finding yourself having that financial struggle specially if you do have a business and on the time comes that certain conditions did make such huge impact into your business and this one has become that your main source of income then you would really be definitely be finding yourself be that having that huge trouble on the moment that you do find yourself having no savings to back you up.
You would really be making those realizations at the moment that you are struggling on which you should have done those things earlier when you do still have the money,.
The main mistake of most people is that they do become that too confident when they are earning money without even trying to think about back up plans
when shit things do happen.