Focus (Not Worry)

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge

To echo Inge’s brilliant sentiment, (I’ve often said:) worry is a prayer for what you don’t want.

Focus on what you want.

(Don’t know what you want? Figure it out. And then… yeah, you guessed it: focus on it.)

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