Worries, like sheep, seem to flock together. One worry leads to
another, and soon you are overwhelmed with the potential for problems.
When you allow yourself to play the "what if?" game-to speculate about
additional problems that one potential problem might cause-worries
multiply, each making the next seem worse.
If you must play the "what if?" game, play it to win. Focus on
solutions, not on the problems themselves and the additional problems
they might create. However serious your worries may seem when they
awaken you at midnight, if you analyze them carefully, you will find
that every problem has a solution.
One of the most wonderful things about life is that we are all unique
with different levels of intelligence, interests, aptitudes, and
desires. How dreadfully dull it would be if we all wanted to be nuclear
physicists-or bakers. But, regardless of the gifts we may have received
at birth and whichever skills we may have since developed, we all have
the capability to be the best at what we do.
Being the best is strictly a reflection of your attitude and your
desire. Whether you are a salesperson, an executive, a secretary, or an
assembly-line worker, you have the capacity to be as good as you choose
to be. When you become outstanding at what you do, you will discover
greatly increased demand for your services. When you become the best in
your line of work, you may be asked so often to help other "sheep" that
you will soon own your own "flock."
