“To keep my joy, 99 percent of the time, I can place any given difficulty in one of three boxes to gain better insight and understanding on the situation at hand. I will ask myself, “Is this a five-minute, five-hour, or five-day problem?” The other less than 1 percent represent deeply traumatic events that could result in one- to five-year problems, but these are obviously rare. I became aware I was treating every five-minute problem as if it were a five-year problem by doing something called catastrophizing.”

From Sourcery 101: 13 Rungs to a Higher Elevation of Consciousness” by Justin L. Shaw