Chapter 1

Lesson 1. Our troubles with worry is about inaction, not ignorance of rules or knowledge.

Part one - fundamental facts you should know about worry “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

My interpretation: we need to focus on what is important and what is of our immediate concerns. Not about what can be done later or can’t be done now. If it is out of our control we or not priority we must not waste time on it.

“Day tight compartments”: Live life based on a set of rules to limit the effect of the past and the future. Use all your time, money, energy, effort to ensure that today will be great.

You must always plan, careful thoughts, and prepare for the future but leave the anxiety behind. I will do you no good. If you prepare it will suffice. No need to be disappointed and worried. DO not stress and strain when you can just focus on preparation.

“If a ship has sunk” I can’t bring it up. However, I can do a much better job by working on tomorrows problem than to fret of yesterday’s.

No matter you are in times of stress and pressure or when calm and relaxed. Good thinking is based upon cause and effect and logical constructive planning. Bad thinking is based upon tension and nervous breakdowns.

Your Life is like an Hourglass There are thousands of grains of sand that pass through the narrow neck without imparing the hourglass. In the morning we all have 100s of tasks which we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take one at a time and let it go through slowly and evenly, then we will break the neck (Our physical and mental structure.)

One task at at time Accomplish each and every tasks efficently to prevent the work from being jumbled and confused.

We live between two eternities The vast past we have endured and the future chasing time. We can’t live in either one. Trying to will only ruin us and our minds. Be content to live the only time we can live in. Now until bed time. “No matter Anyone can do this work, however hard, for one day.”

Every day is a new life to a wise man Today is a new life. 今天是新生活

Life is in the living, within the tissue of every day and of every hour

You must not worry and regret what has happened in the past. Remember the man who once started with $50 a week. then $20000 a year, and then in the blink of an eye lost it all again but realized it is better to not fret over what has happened.

Many people would never have seen the thrills of achieving vast victories if they hadn’t seen the folly of worry first. If they hadn’t learned to livei n day tight compartments.

Carpe Diem Seize the day.

For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision, But today well lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of Hope.

1. Do I tend to put off living in the present in order to worry about the future, or to yearn for some “magical rose garden over the horizon? I believe I don’t worry much about the future often because I want to plan for the future such as making goals that I need to achieve. However, I do have the problem of constantly rethinking of things I had done in the past or things I wish were different. But I will say for many of my days, I do not dwell too much on anything but the present.
2. Do I sometimes embitter the present by regretting things that happened in the past that are over and done with? Yes, at times, I do. I mostly feel that I ruin parts of the present because I tend to relive the experiences of the past, I replay things that had angered me. or upset me.
3. Do I get up in the morning determined to “Seize the day”, to get the utmost out of these twenty four hours? I do not get up every morning thinking I will seize the day. But from now on I will get up and know what I need to accomplish even if it is one tiny thing at a time. One task at a time means progress.
4. Can I get more out of life by “living in day-tight comparments”? Yes, I can get more out of life by living in day tight compartments because I will truly focus on what I can control, what is of my concern, and what is truly important that needs to be done today.
5. When shall I start to do this? Next Week? Tomorrow? Today? Today, and hereafter everyday! I must always reassure I am doing the best I can to the best of my ability to live for today. I must do what provides me with satisfaction, happiness, and fulfillment.