Hello there. How are you today. I hope all is well with you. Today I want to share with you a simple concept to overcome worry in your life.
A few days ago I found myself doing one of the worst things that we as human beings tend to do and that is focusing on what we don’t have. You see I saw someone or should I say a group of people with something that I always wanted but for the time being I have never been able to acquire it as yet. It is too personal for me to reveal right now but I found myself being very concerned and even feeling a little down because of not having it.
Anyway as I was going through the day I saw somethings that made me have a very different perspective on my problem. I saw a woman who had to be carried by a man because she had trouble walking, I met a girl who was very young and has been continually sick for years now and doctors can’t seem to cure her.
I began to realise just how great my life is and that there are people out there who will do anything to trade places with me and to have my problems to be there biggest problems.
I am sure that some of you are like that too. I read this quote in a Dale Carnegie book that said
‘I had the blues cause I had no shoes,
When upon the street I saw a man who had no feet.’
Dale Carnegie went on to say that about 90 percent of the things in our lives are right and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to focus on the 9o percent that are right and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is focus on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.
I want you to right now take out a sheet of paper and spend about 15 minutes writing everything you are thankful for. When you do this exercise you will realise just how blessed you are and it will be foolishness to continue to dwell on what you don’t have.
So start counting your blessings today. Don’t think your blessings don’t count!!!
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I love the Dale Carnegie quote! I’m a true believer in having an attitude of gratitude. I think the exercise you suggested is an important one. I try to write down the top things I’m grateful for each day.