How to Stop Worrying and start Living

Seven Ways To Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace And Happiness

RULE 1: Let’s fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for “our life is what our thoughts make it”.

RULE 2: Let’s never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let’s do as General Eisenhower does: let’s never waste a minute thinking about people we don’t like.

RULE 3:
A. Instead of worrying about ingratitude, let’s expect it. Let’s remember that Jesus healed ten lepers in one day—and only one thanked Him. Why should we expect more gratitude than Jesus got?
B. Let’s remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude—but to give for the joy of giving.
C. Let’s remember that gratitude is a “cultivated” trait; so if we want our children to be grateful, we must train them to be grateful.

RULE 4: Count your blessings—not your troubles!

RULE 5: Let’s not imitate others. Let’s find ourselves and be ourselves, for “envy is ignorance” and “imitation is suicide”.

RULE 6: When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make a lemonade.

RULE 7: Let’s forget our own unhappiness—

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

Let’s remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give

wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. “Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means

The future is today … There is no tomorrow

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing

You didn’t pick up this book to read about how it was written. You are looking for action

Believe that you will succeed, and you will,” and “Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.”

possible to change other people’s behavior by changing one’s reaction to them