Today is the day to

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Today is the day to

• stop worrying

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The source for this material is

• 25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living A
  Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life, by
  Dr. Linda Elder Dr. Richard Paul, Pearson,
  2006 and the Center and Foundation for Critical
  Thinking, CA.

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Do you worry about problems

• rather than take action to solve them?
• Do you obsess about problems that you can do
  nothing about?
• While you are worrying, do you present a calm,
  unruffled exterior?
• (Drs. Elder and Paul, Ibid)

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WORRYWART

• DO YOU KNOW ANY
• WORRYWARTS?
• You can probably name several in your sphere of
  living

• YOU PROBABLY OMMITTED YOUR NAME ON THAT LIST OF
  WORRYWARTSSHOULD IT BE THERE?

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Take Notice of Your Worrying

• Notice the negative emotions you experience when
  you worry.
• (Ibid)

• Notice when others
• worry
• fail to act
• waste energy in emoting about a problem
• (Ibid)

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Our authors remind us

• Worrying never adds to the quality of your life,
  but it can certainly diminish its quality.
• (Drs. Elder and Paul, Ibid)

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For every problem under the sun,there is a
solution or there in none.If there be one, seek
till you find it.If there be none, then never
mind it.

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Your mind is failing you

• to the extent that you worry, instead of
  actively looking for solutions.

• First seek a solution
• open your mind to alternative possibilities
• open your mind to alternative possibilities
• open your mind
• (Ibid)

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and, let it go

• if there is nothing you can do in the
  situation
• turn your mind to something productive.
• (Ibid)

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Rational persons

• work to control excessive, unproductive worry
• and
• work to avoid the emotional pain and
  fruitlessness of obsessive worry
• See pp. 51-52 for more discussion by our authors
  on this topic.

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it
becomes due.

• W.R. Inge

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Five Strategies

• You will find five strategies, including several
  questions in the first of the five, that you can
  use for relinquishing the worrying habit, as
  our authors put it..
• See pp. 52-53 in their book, (Ibid).

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Today is the day to

• STOP WORRYING

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DAILY REFLECTION NOTES

• Today I was successful in using the following
  ideas/strategies
• The key insights that emerged for me today were
• One problem in my thinking that I now realize is
• I plan to continue working on this problem using
  the following strategy