HOW TO KICK THE WORRY

own conduct. You cannot admonish others to read the good books
when you do not have a library card. Look around you at this very
moment in time. What might you be doing that needs attention,
that needs a new discipline, a new commitment, or a new decision?
Remember, this book was not meant for entertainment. Life is
too valuable for you to allow good ideas to be taken casually. Or as
though the words or questions were meant for someone else.
Perhaps this week while you’re studying ideas on self-discipline,
have you driven along in traffic impatiently blowing your horn at
someone ahead of you who isn’t moving fast enough? Perhaps
you’re sitting alone reading, only because you’ve had a
disagreement with someone you love or who loves you and your
anger won’t allow you to speak to that person. Would not this be
an ideal time to examine the need for a new discipline, on
forgiveness or patience with another person’s need for the time to
grow and discover themselves?
Perhaps you’re on the threshold of giving up or starting over or
starting out, and the only missing ingredient to your incredible
success story is a new and self imposed discipline that will make
you stay longer, try harder, and work more intensely than you ever
thought you possibly could. And remember the greatest and most
valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose on yourself.
Don’t wait for things to deteriorate so drastically that someone
else must impose discipline into your life. Wouldn’t that be tragic?
How would you possible explain why someone else thought more of
you than you thought of yourself? Why someone else forced you up
early and into the marketplace when you would have been content
to sleep in and let success go to someone who cared more about
themselves than you cared about you.
Your life, my life, the life of each one of us on this spinning
blue white planet is going to serve as either a warning or an
example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, or
lack of direction or ambition. Or an example of talent put to use.
Of discipline self-imposed and of objectives clearly perceived and
intensely pursued. The material we will cover together in the
discipline for success is the best we’ve been able to cover in a
lifetime. The fundamentals for wealth and happiness are exactly
what the title implies – fundamentals. But remember, the greatest
ideas and insights, unless combined with disciplined human