When we worry about the challenges that are appearing in our lives right now it can often be counter productive. Worry can cause us to feel such crippling emotions as fear, panic and anxiety. These emotions keep us stuck where we are, not allowing us to move forward.

I am not suggesting you ignore the challenges you are facing in your life right now just simply proposing that you start to look at them in a different way. In essence we need to be concerned about our problems and not worried. There is a big difference between concern and worry. Concern means realizing what your problems are and calmly taking steps to over come them. Worry means going around in frustrating, energy depleting and time wasting circles. Which way would you prefer to be?

Always remember it is not the situations that you have met in your life that have thrown you; it is what you think of these situations.

Montaigne the great French philosopher came up with this wonderful quote, which really sums it up “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.

Stay tuned for next weeks article where I will give you some more useful tips on how to banish worry from your life!

Suzanne is a Life Coach, Corporate Coach and NLP Master Practitioner. If you would like to book Suzanne as your Personal Coach, or for a Workshop, Seminar or Corporate event in your area, click here now.