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 won 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 happenâ€"40%;

Things over and past that can’t be changed by all the worry in the worldâ€"30%;

Needless worries about our healthâ€"12%;

Petty miscellaneous worriesâ€"10%;

Real, legitimate worriesâ€"8%.

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

cause painful stressâ€"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!