How To Stop Worrying And Start Living : A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations

"How To Stop Worrying And Start Living" is a book authored by Dale Carnegie. This blog provides the book summary and encourage to read it.

Chapter 2 - A Magic Formula For Solving Worry Situations - Higlights

I have been using this same anti-worry technique for more than thirty years.

It consists of three steps:

Step I. Figured out what was the worst that could possibly happen as a result of this failure.

Step II. Accepting it, if necessary.

Step III. From that time on, I calmly devoted my time and energy to trying to improve upon the worst which I had already accepted mentally.

When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

Psychologically, it means a new release of energy! When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means-we have everything to gain!

'Face the worst'; improve on the worst.

Rule 2 is: If you have a worry problem, apply the magic formula of Willis H. Carrier by doing these three things-

1. Ask yourself,' 'What is the worst that can possibly happen?"

2. Prepare to accept it if you have to.

3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

How To Stop Worrying And Start Living : Live in "Day-tight Compartments"

"How To Stop Worrying And Start Living" is a book authored by Dale Carnegie. This blog provides the book summary and encourage to read it.

Chapter 1 - Live in "Day-tight Compartments" - Highlights

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today."

Begin the day with Christ's prayer: "Give us this day our daily bread."

Whether in war or peace, the chief difference between good thinking and bad thinking is this: good
thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking
frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must
accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.'

... One task at a time.

Let's be content to live the only time we can possibly live: from now until bedtime.

"Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."

'Every day is a new life to a wise man.'

I found it wasn't so hard to live only one day at a time. I learned to forget the yesterdays and to not-think of the tomorrows. Each morning I said to myself: 'Today is a new life.'

"The child says: 'When I am a big boy.' But what is that? The big boy says: 'When I grow up.' And then, grown up, he says: 'When I get married.' But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to 'When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour."

"Enjoy the day." Or, "Seize the day." and make the most of it.

Selective Quotes of Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Finding Pincodes (India)

You can find/check your place pin-code using the below link from Indiapost website

http://www.indiapost.gov.in/pin/ 

Karnataka/Bangalore property guideline values

You can find the Karnataka State Government Guideline value for properties across all the places of Karnataka with the below link.
Guideline values are the minimum registration price the Govt has fixed. We need to register our property for value greater than this price.

http://www.karunadu.gov.in/karigr/aspx/marketvalue/default.aspx