One, ask what’s the worst thing that could happen.
Two, get prepared to accept the worst.
Three, change it if you can.
99% of the time what we fear never happens and 1% of the time it doesn’t happen the way we fear.
Is that worth all the pain and suffering from worry?
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Openness and empowerment are two qualities that people cannot resist.
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Every day is the beginning of a new chapter in your life.
No need to hang onto the past with all its worries or fears.
No need to fear the future that hasn’t happened yet.
Breaking life into one day at a time helps to rejuvenate us and free us from the shackles that have been holding us back the previous day.
New chapter, new opportunity.
Instead of walking around with the cumulative effect of everything that may have gone wrong or worried us, start each new day fresh – with a clean canvass – upon which to create a better day today.
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90% of what happens to us every day is good.
10% of it is bad.
Yet we spend 90% of our time focusing on that 10%.
To guarantee a more positive attitude, focus the majority of your day on the 90% of the things that happen that are good.
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We can’t.
But few among us don’t fritter away wasted time trying.
The sure way to an unhappy life is to try to change another person.
Accept them with what you perceive as flaws and all and help them without being judgmental or with a goal to transform them because in the end no human has ever permanently changed another person – not with power over them, money or influence.
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Forgive them and forget them.
Forgive them so that the anger that they provoke does not turn you into them.
And forget them because no good can come from embracing or engaging anyone you feel is your enemy.
The power of forgiveness has two very potent benefits.
One, it lets you rid yourself of mean people.
Two, it gives you the gift of letting go.
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As George Bernard Shaw said “To have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.”
It is why busy people are less unhappy even though they carry their problems with them.
The more we worry about worry, the more worried we become.
There is no need to obsess over fears and worry because that just multiplies the problem and offers no solution.
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Confidence only seems to be high when things are going well.
The trick is to think like a winner when adversity strikes.
Ceding success and happiness to luck is a rollercoaster ride not worth the thrill.
Believing, remembering, projecting the next victory large or small is true confidence.
Savor every opportunity to feel good about feeling confidence in yourself.
Then when things get tough, double down on your conviction to bounce back.
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The world’s not perfect, but it’s not that bad
If we got each other, and that’s all we have
I will be your brother, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
When the world’s not perfect
When the world’s not kind
If we have each other then we’ll both be fine
I will be your brother, and I’ll hold your hand
You should know I’ll be there for you
“If We Have Each Other” By Alec Benjamin / Alex Hope
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
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My father lost his leg to disease.
I was with him on the night before the surgery wondering why he didn’t talk about the planned amputation in the morning. I was more worried than he was if that was possible.
Following surgery and rehab, he was fitted for a prosthesis, drove a car (it was his right leg that was amputated so he had a special adapted accelerator on the left side under the steering wheel).
He wallpapered rooms (a one-legged paperhanger he used to say). Planted and harvested a garden every year. Worked. Did almost anything everyone else did.
I’m sure he wished that he had his leg back (and he did complain of phantom pains in his foot that no longer existed – something doctors said was normal). But he never talked about that.
He accepted the inevitable because he knew there was no way to change it.
In our lives with perhaps lesser challenges, it is still important to know what can be changed and what cannot and to accept what cannot to live a full, happy life.
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