Worried

Greetings all of my wonderful friends!! So I was just gonna send this one to a friend of mine and after reading it. Well it applies to many people on here. We spend to much time worrying about our goal or the end. We sabotage ourselves worrying about what ifs instead of the small accomplishments you made for the day. So many times it isnt your family or your friends, or even your social life that sobotage your goals, but the worrying of you trying to reach the end before you begin. Take this one day at a time and love your new self. Learn to live in the body you are creating and just be happy with each passing day. With each passing accomplishment and continue to be happy with each one. Lets throw the worries out the window. As they say "worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but really doesnt get you anywhere" =0)

Have a wonderful day my friends and set short smart goals and the rest will just happen. Cheers!

A Worrying Woman

By Orison Swett Marden

"I'm awfully worried this morning, said one woman. What is it?" "Why, I thought of something to worry about last night, and now I can't remember it." A famous actress once said: "Worry is the foe of all beauty." She might have added: "It is the foe to all health."

"It seems so heartless in me, if I do not worry about my children," said one mother. Women nurse their troubles, as they do their babies. "Troubles grow larger," said Lady Holland, "by nursing." "He grieves," says Seneca, "more than is necessary, who grieves before it is necessary." "My children," said a dying man, "during my long life I have had a great many troubles, most of which never happened." A prominent businessman in Philadelphia said that his father worried for twenty-five years over an anticipated misfortune, which never arrived.

We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one day at a time. Life is a mosaic, and each tiny piece must be cut and set with skill, first one piece, then another. It is not the troubles of today, but those of tomorrow and next week and next year, that whiten our heads, wrinkle our faces, and bring us to a standstill. Nervous prostration is seldom the result of present trouble or work, but of work and trouble anticipated. Mental exhaustion comes to those who look ahead, and climb mountains before reaching them. Resolutely build a wall about today, and live within the enclosure. The past may have been hard, sad, or wrong, - but it is over.

Why not take a turn about? Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days. "I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled," says Emerson, "far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and cavern out by grumbling, discontented people."

What is this world but as you take it? Thackeray calls the world a looking glass that gives back the reflection of one's own face. "Frown at it, and it will look sourly upon you; laugh at it, and it is a jolly companion."