Stop Worry
by “Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future”.
Worry is no more and no less than the misuse of imagination. Rather than using the imagination to play out happy events, the chronic worrier watches disasters and personal humiliations flashing on the inner screen.
The sad thing about such pictures is that most of those events are only faint possibilities. Mark Twain said he had known a lot of trouble in his life and most of them had never happened.
A businessman who was a chronic worrier decided to analyze his anxieties. He found that 40 percent of them were about things that were likely never to happen, 30 percent were about pas decisions that could not be changed, 12 percent concerned criticism from others that didn’t matter anyway, 10 percent were about his health (which he was already doing his best to protect), and only 8 percent were legitimate causes of worry. If we could eliminate our worries by 92 percent, we would be well on our way to solid self-possession.
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Post Commentcardy
On September 24, 2009 at 8:45 am
This is a really good write, makes me think about myself thanks for the share.
fragile18
On September 24, 2009 at 9:39 am
right. Stop worrying. Worrying will not solve any problem.
just give it a smile.
Melody SJAL
On September 24, 2009 at 10:03 am
Very sound advice.
agriculi
On September 24, 2009 at 10:53 am
Good example of the business man.
Goodselfme
On September 24, 2009 at 11:31 am
Great points made here. TX
LOVELYHONEY
On September 24, 2009 at 2:02 pm
some say my poem
smile and thwewhole world smiles etc
is LOUIS ARMSTRONG SINGING
when will u sing for me ?????
if at all
Tanya Wallace
On September 24, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Excellent example used about the business man on a excellent topic!Why worry about things that we have no power over,if we could all stop I bet there would be a lot healthier people in the world! As always giftarist wonderful write!
CA Johnson
On September 24, 2009 at 7:30 pm
This is great advice. I can definitely use this advice because I do tend to worry about things a lot.