Today: Money is supposed to be mercy. But neither rich people nor poor people can stop worrying about it.
Cring explains the trap.
For between “what” and “if” is where humans go crazy.
The answer is no. For you see, good things happen in the minute they are most needed.
Absolutely nothing. Especially if you’re viewing them from a distance you’ve created. Don’t forget the humor of the Old West: “Don’t hang with those who will hang.”
We’ve entered a time when maintaining civility, promoting peacefulness and a general sense of well-being has gained supremacy over the necessity of resolving conflict.
As a result, millions—perhaps billions—of people are walking around tolerating each other, trying to be as kind as possible, but struggling through strife which has not been addressed.
I will tell you clearly that unresolved conflict is the source of most of our fear, worry, gossip and depression.
In the sense that we do not know who to trust.
Because we are terrified that we’re being talked about behind our backs.
Unable to resolve the conflict with the one we care about, we start discussing it with people who have too many opinions.
We give up and don’t talk at all—just muddle through our sadness.
Granted, there are times when there isn’t enough energy or desire to continue a discussion to a conclusion. There’s nothing wrong with walking away in the middle of a fight.
“This is not resolved but I promise not to discuss it with anyone else until we can get back together and talk again.”
Nobody is birthed to be successful nor is anyone born cursed.
The blessing lies in what voices we listen to and the ones we reject. This starts from the time we’re tiny toddlers, all through the educational system and even when we eventually arrive at our occupation.
Every human being becomes a problem to every other human being if they do not curtail worry and fear. The minute you allow worry to find a home inside you and fear to stall you, you make yourself weak in moments when strength is needed and require your family and friends to carry your load.
Are they able to come into a situation, figure out what to do, initiate the process and survive the setbacks?
There are only two things that keep us from achieving that status:
Worry – becoming overwhelmed with anxiety before taking inventory of possibilities.
Fear – lacking the self-confidence and energy of faith by surmising that the same benefits that came to us in previous predicaments are still available.
Once worry and fear enter the heart of any human being, he or she is incapacitated from carrying their own portion and must rely on the patience and generosity of others.
If this is the selection you make—either because you grew up in an environment where it was acceptable, have taken on a religion that believes such weakness is dependence on God, or you are just terrified of every option that comes your way—well, if this is your profile, you will be a problem.
And here’s the truth:
You can become a reward. You can be a gift to yourself and your fellow-travelers if you can substitute simplicity for worry and humor for fear.
Simplicity is worry that proclaims, “While we’re waiting for a better solution, let’s keep ourselves busy with this one.”
And humor is buying the time to allow circumstances to shift, reinforcements to arrive or a resolution.
You save yourself mountains of frustration and you make other people glad that you’re in their lives, sharing the burden.
Much of worry and fear is taught—which is good.
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1. Worry is transforming into action
2. Fear is melting as the pursuit for love grows
3. Rage calms as anger gains a voice
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The W word that should never be spoken or written again is:
It is a self-proclamation of great concern that has been hollowed out by the need to feel important, even when others require the greater attention.
It is delivered with tears, but rarely lifts a finger to help.
It insists on something being done while languishing in self-pity.
It is irrelevant—mainly because it fails to acknowledge that to do nothing is to get nothing.
It pretends to be involved—but proves “to study nothing is to learn nothing.”
And it is arrogant.
Feel nothing.
Be nothing.
It is nothing surrounded by sentiment.
It is a series of carefully worded statements that never form a legitimate thought.
A great man once said that we should never worry. He also went on to say (and I paraphrase):
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Although we may insist that problems come in piles, what they actually do is accumulate because they are avoided or feared. Then we suddenly find ourselves with a heapin’ helpin’ of horror.
Intimidation sets in.
Intimidation brings a friend. That comrade is worry.
Why?
Worry demands that you remember something from the past that you think is going to happen in the present and makes you wonder if it will play out in the future. It’s exhausting.
Reasoning, on the other hand, suggests that you take what you know and apply it to the ongoing situation.
When you start fixing the next thing, you find that you not only are repairing things, but also eliminating the overwhelming sensation of being drug down by your insistent problems. Rather, you’re enlightened by them and given the opportunity, through them, to prove your prowess.
Fix the next thing.
Keep your other problems waiting.
After all, some of them deserve to be snubbed.
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