Eliminate Worry

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Eliminate Worry

By Bob Proctor

Everyone gets the same amount of time every day. We get all there is... 24

hours... fourteen hundred and forty minutes. So, with time being such a precious

commodity, why is it that so many of us spend our days worrying? Worry has

almost become a national pastime for most! I suppose if we had a contract to

live for a lifetime, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but we don't. We just have

now!

Some of you may be reading this and thinking, " Yeah, he probably doesn't have

anything to worry about. " But, that's not true. I have plenty to worry about,

I just choose not to and I'd like to suggest that you follow suit and resolve

right now, as you read this article, that you are not going to invest even

one of those fourteen hundred and forty minutes worrying... about anything.

Clearly understand, there isn't any situation that isn't made worse by worry.

Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals

anything. Worry serves only one purpose... it makes matters worse. How? Well,

quite simply, when you're focused on worrying about something, you'll never

be able to focus on a solution. Be aware that your mind cannot focus on two

things at the same time... it can either focus on the current situation and

worry

or a solution. The choice is always yours.

Kurtz said, " If we worry, we don't trust; if we trust, we don't worry.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its grief, but it does empty today of its

joy. "

If you have been worrying about something or someone, you can eliminate that

worry through displacement. Let its positive opposite crowd it out of your

mind and then follow through with constructive action. Everything in the

universe

has an opposite, even your worries.

You could be worried about not having sufficient time to do some of the

important things you have to do today. The truth is you do have enough time if

you

are willing to give up something else. The busiest person you know, yourself

included, would have time to go downtown and pick up a check if you had a

winning tick in a lottery. You might neglect doing something else to make the

time,

but trust me, you would get the check.

When a worry thought occupies your attention, choose the positive opposite to

the worry thought and focus your attention on that. No one is without

problems; they are a part of living. But let me show you how much time we waste

in

worrying about the wrong problems. Here are some figures I picked up years ago

and I would think they're just as valid today as they were when I first came

upon them. Here is a reliable estimate of the things people worry about.

Things that never happen - 40%; Things over and past that can't be changed by

all the worry in the world - 30%; Needless worries about our health - 12%;

Petty miscellaneous worries - 10%; Real, legitimate worries - 8%.

In short, 92% of the average person's worries take up valuable time, cause

painful stress-even mental anguish, and, for the most part, are unnecessary.

Remember what Dr. Kurtz said, " Worry empties today of its joy. " Don't worry, be

happy!

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