As A Result Of My Philosophy, I

It Is Only In Your Mind That You Have To Excel, At Anything Or Everything. Of Course, It Would Be Very Nice To Excel At Most Things. Indeed, We Recommend That You Try And Do Your Best. But Realistically, You Are Entitled To Do The Bare Minimum To Get By. All Your Accomplishments Are Just A Bonus, Something To Enjoy, Not Requirements. You Don't Have To Do Anything To Prove That You Are Worthy Of Existing.

Beginning In The 1960s, Many Studies Showed That People Who Hold What We Call Irrational Beliefs Are Significantly More Disturbed Than When They Don't Hold Them, And The More Strongly They Hold Them, The More Disturbed They Tend To Be.

Unless, Of Course, You Insist On Identifying Yourself With The People And Things You Love; And Thereby Seriously Disturb Yourself.

You Have Considerable Power To Construct Self-helping Thoughts, Feelings And Actions As Well As To Construct Self-defeating Behaviors. You Have The Ability, If You Use It, To Choose Healthy Instead Of Unhealthy Thinking, Feeling And Acting.

The Great Majority Of The Things We Now Make Ourselves Panicked About Are Self-created 'dangers' That Exist Almost Entirely In Our Own Imaginations.