It has been a rough week, I must admit and I have made many mistakes this week at work. It happen even to the best of us- we start to scratch our heads, pull out our hairs, squint, and start to imagine living a different life, living in a different country, working for a different company and being married to or in a relationship with a total stranger. This is the enemy of our time known as worry, which has been known to cause ulcers, sleepless nights, stroke, diabetes, obesity, depression, malnutrition and many other societal ills.
The best way to overcome worry is by taking each day as it comes, working within and (not without) our 24 hours biological clock. Work and plan for each day and learn to live in the present; reflecting upon the past and setting your eyes towards the far future. When you feel a tinge of those worry molecules moving within you, snap out of it and do something constructive with your time. This could include: visiting the poor, the sick in hospitals, reading a new book, learning a new language or trade or exercising. Whatever, you do, please don’t allow worry to put you in a state of ‘comatose’, so to speak. You were created to succeed, to make a great contribution to society and most of all to have joy! If you’re feeling short-changed on this- then it is high time to do something about it- you heard?
I am no exception to this rule as I will also strive to be happy and to not cause worry to steal away of dreams and goals in life. My challenge to each of you is to learn to overcome every single cause of worry in your life; allow yourself to vent and to express your anger, disappointment and pain when your world has turned upside down but don’t allow yourself to be chained and overcome by our common enemy in striving to make it in this wonderful life. I conclude with the words of Marianne Williamson from the immortal words entitled, ‘our deepest fear’ :
”Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
