RULE 4:  Remind yourself of the exorbitant price you can pay for worry in
terms of your health. "Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry,
die young. 
 
 
 

Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry                       RULE 1. Get the facts. Remember that half the worry in the world is                     caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient                     know-ledge on which to base a decision.                      RULE 2. After carefully weighing all the facts, come to a decision.                      RULE 3. Once a decision is carefully reached, act! Get busy carrying out                     your decision-and dismiss all anxiety about the outcome.                      RULE 4. When you, or any of your associates, are tempted to worry                     about a problem, write out and answer the following questions:                             A. What is the problem?                           B. What is the cause of the problem                           C. What are the possible solutions?                           D. What is the best solution?

 

HOW TO BREAK THE WORRY HABIT BEFORE                                             IT BREAKS YOU                       RULE l. Crowd worry out of your mind by keeping busy. Plenty of action                     is one of the best therapies for curing "wibber gibbers                      RULE 2.Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things (the mere                     termites of life) to ruin your happiness.                      RULE 3. Use the law of averages to outlaw your worries. Ask yourself:                      "What are the odds against this thing's happening at all?"                      RULE 4.Co-operate with the inevitable~ If you know a circumstance is                     beyond your power to change or revise it, say to yourself: "It is so; it                     cannot be otherwise."                      RULE 5. Put a stop-loss order on your worries. Decide just how much                     anxiety a thing may be worth-and refuse to give it any more.                      RULE 6. Let the past bury its dead. Don't saw sawdust.

TEN IRRATIONAL IDEAS                        1) The idea that you must have approval from all the                     people you find significant.                          2) The idea that you must prove thoroughly competent,                     adequate and achieving or you at least must have                     competence or talent in some important area.                          3) The idea that when people act obnoxiously and                     unfairly, you should blame them and damn them, and                     see them as bad, wicked, or rotten individuals.                          4) The idea that you have to view things as awful,                     terrible, horrible and catastrophic when you get                     seriously frustrated, treated unfairly, or rejected.                          5) The idea that emotional misery comes from external                     pressures and that you have little ability to control or                     change your feelings.                          6) The idea that if something seems dangerous or                     fearsome, you must preoccupy yourself with and made                     yourself anxious about it.                          7) The idea that you can more easily avoid facing many                     life difficulties and self-responsibilities than undertake                     more rewarding forms of self-discipline                      8. The idea that your past remains all-important and                     that because something once strogly influenced your                     life, it has to keep determining your feelings today.                      9] The idea that some people and things should turn                     out better than they do and that you must view it as                     awful and horrible if you do not find good solutions to                     life's grim realities.                        10) The idea that you can achieve maximum human                     happiness by inertia and inaction or by passively and                     uncommittedly "enjoying yourself