How to Stop Worrying and Start Prospering
2001 Boaz Rauchwerger
My Mother had a great philosophy about life. She said, "Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow. Now here was a woman who had every right to be resentful of the world. After all, she had lost her parents and brother in the Holocaust. However, she actually had the most positive attitude of anyone I've ever known. On the subject of worry, she simply refused.
If there was something she could do about a certain situation, she would do it. If there wasn't anything she could do, she would leave it alone. Most of what we worry about never happens. Mother understood the detrimental affects of worry. On one's health. On one's mind. On the pocketbook. Mother felt that every minute she spent worrying, was a minute less she had to prosper. And she believed in prosperity.
If there's something you're worried about, write down the worst results possible. Then write down what you would do if that happened.
In addition, live in "day-tight" compartments. Just like the compartments on a ship. When we start a new day, the compartment behind us gets closed and the one in front of us, exemplifying tomorrow, is not yet opened. Let's just do the best we can with today. As mother said, "Don't borrow sorrow from tomorrow."
The Tiberias Success Formula
This is the formula which I've been teaching nationwide for nearly 20 years. Many people have told me that it is truly the simplest and most productive success formula in the world. It only takes a few minutes each day. However, it can revolutionize your life.
Step 1: Affirmations These are statements of goals you desire, written as if they were already accomplished, with an emotion added. If the goal is time-sensitive, set a date. Here's an example: "It's December 31, _____. I have now accomplished (your goal) and I'm excited." Read your affirmations the first thing each morning and the last thing each night. Set goals that are achievable and then raise them. Do not analyze the HOW. Just clarify your WHY. Have an important reason for the goal.
Step 2: The 31-Day Charge Listen to a positive audio tape each morning as you get ready. Listen to the same tape over and over until the ideas become a part of you. If you desire to purchase my "31-Day Charge" audio tape, please write.
Step 3: Readings I'm recommending two specific books, read over and over. It's much more productive to familiarize yourself with a few basic human relations techniques, and make them a part of you, than to read many books and not internalize any of them. I recommend "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie and "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. Read just one page a day in each one. When completed, read the books again and again.
Step 4: Exercise Take a few minutes, two or three times a week, to get some exercise. Walking is excellent. Have a friend walk with you. Great mental energy is created when you're in good physical shape.
Step 5: The Fortune Fund Save some money every day. Get an envelope and put at least a dollar bill into it. If there's more, save more. Say, "I'm richer today than I was yesterday. Not as rich as I'll be tomorrow." Keep saving every day. It will show your subconscious mind that money is coming to you on a regular basis.
Step 6: Action Take some kind of action every day on your most important goal. Just doing this formula is action.
A Worry-Free Daily Affirmation
I refuse to borrow sorrow from tomorrow by worrying.
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