'Why Do I Try to Get Out of Every Plan?'

Your overactive mind is warping your experiences and reshaping your priorities in negative ways.

Reality (1983), Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

Lately I've noticed I'm always trying to get out of anything that's on my calendar, even if it's something I want to do, or totally don't mind doing. I'm going to the gym after work today, great, wonderful, happy to tick that off my list, but all day whenever anything happens I'm finding myself thinking "Maybe …