Just finished reading Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert this morning, which read a bit like HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy but was oh-so-much-more deep, as it discussed scientific studies regarding the emotions 'Happiness'. Early on in the book, he states: Anxiety and planning are intimately connected to thinking about the future. We feel anxiety when we anticipate that something bad will happen, and we plan by imagining how our actions will unfold over time. Planning requires that we peer into our futures, and anxiety is one of the reactions we may have when we do.
He also arues against comparing the present or the future with your past, and emphasises comparing with the possible instead.
What did the book conclude? When we imagine future circumstances, we fill in details that won't really come to pass and leave out details that will. When we imagine future feelings, we find it impossible to ignore what we are feeling now and impossible to recognize how we will think about the things that happen later.
So is it back to simply; Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!!
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