"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere." Glenn Turner

I wish my brain would understand the above concept.

At the end of 2008 I lost over a stone in weight. Not through any diet or exercise plan, but simply from worry. Now that those particular worries are dead and gone, the weight has stayed off....

How? I worry about that too!

I am one of life's worriers. I worry constantly about things that are beyond my control. People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. ~Author Unknown

I worry about things that I should not worry about.

For instance, somebody I know posted something stupid and insensitive AGAIN on my Facebook page as they have done so many times before and to many people. Someone else who is a friend of mine, but not theirs, wrote in no uncertain terms, that the author of said comment was lacking in brain cells.

I felt bad about this. I worried about it. I worried about it to the point that I removed the offending comment. Not the original one, the reaction in my defence.

I worry about leaving my hair straighteners on, my plug sockets, my cat, the fact that my landlord does not know I have a cat, my workload, my family, my friends, my car....... etc etc.

Mostly I worry about whether I have upset people I care about.

All these things go totally against the whole idea which Rhonda Byrne, Jack Canfield, Anthony Robbins, John Assaraf etc have made a fortune from.

What you think about, you bring about.

I have read all manner of book on this subject, made Danny Wallace my idol, dabbled in Buddhism- LIVE IN THE NOW!, but do I learn? Quite simply no.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. ~E. Joseph Cossman

This week I am trying VERY hard to stay focussed and positive.

Worry will not help me.

Tomorrow I am going for a one hour facial, an aromatherapy one. I did not choose a massage as last time I had one, my therapist practically had to use a toffee hammer to work out all the tension and I yelped in pain.

I like this quote, it says it beautifully and I will endeavour to embrace it! :

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent. ~Chinese Proverb