“Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going around and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty per cent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty per cent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
So, I banish about 90 per cent of my worries by taking these four steps:
- Writing down precisely what I am worried about.
- Writing down what I can do about it.
- Deciding what to do.
- Starting immediately to carry out that decision.”
~ Dale Carnegie from How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Amen. So:
What’s stressing you out right now? I am stressed out about:
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What can you do? I can do this about it:
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What will you do? I will do this:
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Cool. Now DO IT!
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