anxiety can be something which follows us around, a daily preventative to doing the things we want and need to do in order to move forward, get things done, begin to see change happen…

here, anxiety is discussed as an objective precursor to how we organise and plan our thoughts and our lives when it is not cripplingly disabling.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/09/psychologists-say-anxiety-is-the-shadow-of-intelligence.html