Worry parking lot

The mind repeats what it believes is unfinished. A parking lot is a coaching contract: I will not solve this in the grocery line; I will meet it at 5:40 with a pen. Containment is not denial. It is courtesy to the rest of your life.

Write the looping worry in one sentence. Add the earliest useful time you will sit with it for ten minutes. For the next hour, when it returns, say: parked, 5:40. Then return to the task in front of you.