Through positive thinking and related approaches, we seek the safety and solid ground of certainty, of knowing how the future will turn out, of a tim… - Oliver Burkeman

This need not be taken as an argument for abandoning all future planning whatsoever, but it serves as a warning not to strive too ardently for any single vision of the future. As Chris Kayes pointed out, the mountaineers who died climbing Everest in 1996 did successfully reach their goal; they ascended to the summit. the tragic unintended consequence was that they didn't make it back down alive.

What is anxiety? It is the next day. With whom, then, does the pagan contend in anxiety? With himself, with a delusion, because the next day is a powerless nothing if you yourself do not give it your strength.' – SØREN KIERKEGAARD

Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention.