“We forge the chains we wear in life.” Charles Dickens

Embrace things in your life that drive you to achieve, and start letting go of those things that do not. It is difficult to distinguish the category in which any of your activities belong, but paying attention to your choices and their consequences will sponsor the awareness you'll need to make better life choices in the future. Although things that bring us happiness outside of work can be our greatest inspiration for professional success, often they are so simple, we cast them aside as inconsequential. Do not do this. Remember the small things that make you happy, and use them to battle things that loom much larger and stress you out. Consider these suggestions:

*Fill your mind with thoughts of peace, courage, hope, and health
*Never try to get even with your enemies
*Expect ingratitude
*Count your blessings, not your troubles
*Try not to imitate others
*Create happiness for others

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Dale Carnegie Course®

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“Today is a new life. Shut the doors on the past and the future. Live in day-tight compartments.”- Dale Carnegie

In this day and age, with so many developments occurring at lightning-fast speed, it is easy to feel constantly stressed and worried about important situations. Here are some tips on learning how to break the worry habit:

* Use the law of averages to outlaw your worries
* Cooperate with the inevitable
* Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth and refuse to give it more
* Don't worry about the past

“Don't get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest.”

- Dale Carnegie

Embrace things that drive you to achieve. Start recognizing the things that fail to sponsor your success, and start the empowering process of letting those things go. Consider the following techniques to minimize and eliminate unnecessary distress:

• Keep busy
• Don't fuss about trifles
• Use the law of averages to outlaw your worries
• Cooperate with the inevitable
• Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth and refuse to give it more
• Don't worry about the past

Carnegie Success Connection Tip of the Week

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

- Mary (Mrs. Ernest) Hemingway

Worrying can have harmful effects on our lives. There really is no solution when you worry, it only creates more problems for yourself in the long run. Consider these four techniques on analyzing the situation at hand in order to minimize worry.

• Get all the facts
• Weigh all the facts - then come to a decision
• Once a decision is reached, act!
• Analyze the problem:
• What is the problem?
• What are the causes of the problem?
• What are the possible solutions?
• What is the best solution?