9 Powerful Lessons From the Book “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”

1⃣ Focus on today

❗Thinking about what needs to be done in the future can lead to overwhelm and inaction.

But if you focus on what you need to accomplish today, it’s much more doable. 

👉 It will help you create the future you want, one day at a time.

2⃣ If you’re worrying about failing, follow these three steps:

1. Analyze a situation causing you worry to determine the worst possible scenario.

2. Accept the worst possible case scenario, if it is to happen.

3. Focus on trying to improve the situation.

3⃣ Understand the situation

👉 Whenever you’re worrying about something, you need to do three things:

1.Get the facts.

2.Analyze the facts.

3.Arrive at a decision – and act on that decision.

4. Breaking the worry habit

🤠 To conquer worry, you need to understand that worry is a habit. That means it’s a habit you can break.

One technique for breaking the worry habit is to keep yourself busy.

👉 When you’re really busy or taken up by action, it’s hard to worry.

5⃣ Avoid trying to get even

💡If selfish people try to take advantage of you, cross them off your list, but don’t try to get even.

❌ No one can disturb your mind if you do not let them. Don’t waste time thinking about people you don’t like.

6⃣ Don’t worry about ingratitude

🟢 It’s human nature for people to forget to be grateful.

If you want to be giving to people or the world, then do it. 

❌ Don’t worry about that being recognized. If it is, great. But don’t feel bad if you don’t receive it.

7⃣ 90% right, 10% wrong

👉 Most of the time, about 90% of our lives are going well, while 10% are not going as we’d like.

The best way to start enjoying your life is to focus on what’s going well.

😊 You can always try to improve what’s not going well.

8⃣ Consider religion and prayer

🙏 Religion and prayer is a good way to stop fretting about all of your troubles.

👉 Even if you’re not religious, talk to yourself about your worries, about your joys, about your hopes and dreams. Ask the universe for help.

9⃣ Keep a “fool things I have done” list

📃 One way to begin learning from and accepting your mistakes is to keep a “fool things I have done” list.

✅ You can add to the list over time and look back over the years to see how you’re improving.