On the slope of Long’s Peak in Colorado lies the ruins of a gigantic tree.
Naturalists tell us that it stood for over four hundred years.
It was a seedling when Christopher Columbus landed in America.
During its long life, it was struck by lightning fourteen times, hit by avalanches and the storms of four centuries thundered past it. It survived them all!
In the end, however, an army of beetles attacked the tree and levelled it to the ground. The insects ate their way through the bark and gradually destroyed the inner strength of the tree by their tiny but incessant attacks.
A forest giant, which age had not withered, nor lightning blasted, nor storms subdued, fell at last before beetles so small that we could crush them with our fingers.
Aren’t we all like that battling giant of the forest?
Don’t we somehow manage to survive the rare storms, avalanches and lightning blasts of life, only to let ourselves be eaten away by little beetles of worry?
Worry is like a rocking chair. It keeps us moving, but it gets us nowhere.
Get rid of 90% of your worries by taking these four steps:
1.Write down specifically what you are worried about?
2.Write down what you can do about it?
3.Decide what specifically, you are going to do about it?
4.Start immediately to carry out that action,
Don’t let the beetles get you down.
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