How to Stop Worrying and Start Living was written by Dale Carnegie and is indeed a worthwhile volume. You'll find nothing in the book you don't know right now, but, being human, we need a reminder now and then to get our thinking back on the track. Here are a few random comments by Carnegie on yesterday, today and tomorrow.
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares and blunders; it's aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring it back. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone. The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow with its possible adversities, it's burdens, it's large promises and poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendor or behind a cloud, but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn. This leaves only one day – – today. Any man can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that you break down. It is not the experience of today that drives men men – – it is remorse or bitterness for some thing which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow will bring. Lettuce, therefore, live but one day at a time.
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