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  "description": "It's one thing to know that worry is pointless. It's another thing to catch yourself! 🥺",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T06:00:35.000Z",
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    "Right tool for the jobMaking decisions: when to use ‘Processing mode’ 🤖The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "There was a day when I'd been in a seriously low mood.\n\nIt 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).\n\nBut that didn't matter, because at the time, my life was just full of insurmountable problems.\n\nIt 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.\n\nAdded to that, I remembered I'd put washing on and had laundry to hang out on the airer!\n\n😫\n\nOn 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!\n\n> _“I just don't know what to do,”_ I concluded, utterly lost.\n\nShe looked up, half smiled and replied,\n\n> _“Oh, you're trying to solve that one _now_ , are you?”_\n\nHa! 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 (i.e. the processing mind, for something that needed a fresh new solution).\n\nA 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…\n\n…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,\n\n> _“Now's not the time, honey!”_\n\n😂🤣\n\nAll I can say is, I wish for you that special someone who'll call you out when you're taking your thinking too seriously.\n\nFailing that, there's always the Daily Reminders.\n\n😘\n\nGiles\n\nSIGN UP FOR THE DAILY REMINDERS newsletter\n\nWant to start __your__ days with helpful, insightful content like this? The Daily Reminder is a quick, lighthearted email that arrives in your inbox, to help keep you grounded in reality, so that you get to __‘Think less, and live more.’__\n\n __“They feel like a moment of stillness in a world of madness.” ~__ Neil, UK\n\n __“One of those small things with big impact. Honestly, just sign up!”__ ~ Paula, UK\n\nGET YOURS NOW\n\n### Related\n\nRight tool for the jobMaking decisions: when to use ‘Processing mode’ 🤖The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft\n\nAs I say in this one: “Seeing when NOT to use Processing Mode is  __way__ more than half the battle!”",
  "title": "“Now’s not the time, honey!”",
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