How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (by Dale Carnegie)

*** Seven Ways to Peace and Happiness ***

1.Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember, there is no one else on earth like you.

• Let's not imitate others. Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

2. Four Good Working Habits that will help prevent fatigue and worry.

• Clear your desk of all papers except those relating to the immediate problem at hand.
• Do things in the order of their importance
• When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.
• Learn to organize, deputize, and supervise.

3. What makes you tired - and what you can do about it

• Psychiatrists delcare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes.
• Relax in odd moments. Let your body go limp like an old sock.
• Work, as much as possible, in a comfortable position. Remember that tensions on the body produce aching shoulders and nervous fatigue.

4. How to Banish the boredom that produces fatigue, worry, and resentment.

• Give yourself a pep talk every day. "Our life is what our thoughts make it!"
• By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sign.

5. Would you take a million dollars for what you have?

• count your blessings - not your troubles!

6. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog

• Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

7. Do this - and criticism cant' hurt you

• When you and I are unjustly criticized, let's remember to:
• Do the very best you can; and then put up your old umbrella and keep the rain of criticism from running down the back of your neck.

Good Quotes:

1)Douglas Malloch:

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley - but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass -

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,

There's something for all of us here.

There's big work to do and there's lesser to do

And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,

If you can't be the sun, be a star;

If isn't by size that you win or you fail -

Be the best of whatever you are!

I hand the blues because I had no shoes, 

Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

2) Lincoln (about criticism:

"If I were to try to read, much less to answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing was right would make no difference."