• Live in day tight compartments.
  • Shut off the future as tightly as the past.
• One grain of sand at a time, one task at a time.
• Three steps to face a grave situation
  • Think, "What's the worst that can happen?"
  • Prepare to accept it if it comes to that.
  • Calmly proceed to improve on the worst.
    • Gather all the facts.
      • Try to reason against your preferred side.
      • List all the facts (both sides of the argument).
    • Analyze the facts.
    • Reach a decision and ACT on it.
• 4 Questions to write(not just think) answers of when something is worrying you.
  • What am I worrying about?
  • What can I do about it?
  • Here's what I will do.
  • When will I start working on this? (preferably immediately)
• When once a decision is reached & execution started, dismiss the care for outcome.

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, try to find it. If there be none, never mind it.

• When we stop fighting the inevitable, we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.
• The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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