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Do you worry too much?

I was bought up in a house called ‘Wywurri”. I’m not sure where the name came from - it could have been named after a group of granite rocks in the Maryamma distriuct of Australia also know as Wywurri.

If I ever get around to writing my autobiography it will be called Wywurri, as this is a principle by which I lead my life. Why worry?

I used to worry about a lot of things:

• My bank account which was never full enough.
• My relationships which always on the brink of ending
• My job which was never quite right for me
• My body which was never light enough

Do you dwell on your problems. There is productive worry and unproductive worry.

Productive worry is when you create a to do list or action plan to deal with your problems.  Unproductive worry is when you just worry but without taking any actions to deal with your issues. What you need to do is accept your difficulties and then move forward to solve the challenges that you face.

One of the biggest problems facing you today is financial. In recent months many people have lost their jobs. Others have seen their savings wiped out through the stock market collapsing.

Robert Leahy, of the American Institute of Cognitive Therapy in New York said, after he suffered a financial loss due to  the collapse of the bank Lehman brothers:

“If you lost 30 percent (of your money), you still have 70 percent,” he said. “Ask yourself, ‘What can I do even if I lost money? Will this really affect what I do today and tomorrow?’ ”

Recalling that he slept on a mattress on a floor when he was a graduate student, he challenges you  to ask yourself  if life was so  terrible when you had less. Consider what you did before you had money.

“Use positive psychology to put money in its place,” he said. “How can financial loss put materialism in its place? How can you use this to clarify values?”

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

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