Worry is a natural part of
life, in a small dose, it’s helpful. But too much worry can distract and
paralyze you. It crowds out the good in your life and keeps you focused on your
problems, which only makes them seem worse. It’s like giving a steroid to your
mini-minny problems that if you examine at it closely, most of the time it
never happens. An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy the most of his
lifetime. He replied, “Things that never
happened.” I heard someone say it best: Worry is wasting today’s time to clutter up tomorrow’s opportunities
with yesterday’s trouble.
Consider the things human
beings worry about. The average individual’s worries can be divided into four
categories (I get this somewhere in a scientific journal): First, there are
things that will never happen, which constitute 40% of worries. Second, there
are things over and past that can’t be changed by all the worry in the world,
and they are another 30% of the total. Third, there are petty, needless
worries, which constitute 22%. Fourth, there are legitimate worries, and these
are only 8% of the whole.
Now my dear friends, which
category of worry is you struggling with right now? Remember: Worry is wasting today’s time to clutter up
tomorrow’s opportunities with yesterday’s trouble.
THINK BIG.
START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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