From a plane window, your entire city fits in a thumbprint. So does the problem you’ve been losing sleep over.

Proportion is almost impossible to judge from close range. A problem occupies the whole field of view because it is near, not because it is large, and the same thing that fills your week would be a footnote in a description of your year. Distance does not solve anything; it just corrects the size.

Try to get some distance on purpose rather than waiting for it. Write the problem in one sentence, then write what your life will contain a year from now. Seeing them on the same page is often enough to let you sleep.