May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Monday, July 13, 2026
Action Drives Out Worry
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Sunday, July 5, 2026
Breathe, Smile, Create Happiness
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries
Friday, March 6, 2026
Taking Action Helps Push Worry Aside
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry Helps Nothing, Action Does. Choose Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Worry is a Dark Cloud
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Smile
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Worry Helps Nothing. Action is What Makes Things Better.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry Helps Nothing, Action Does. Choose Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Replace Worry with Planning
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Friday, July 5, 2024
Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Worry Doesn't Help. Action Helps.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry Helps Nothing, Action Does. Choose Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Friday, July 14, 2023
Instead of Worrying, Take Action
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Thursday, July 6, 2023
There is Great Power in a Smile
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Worry Helps Nothing, Choose Action
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry Helps Nothing, Action Does. Choose Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Don't Worry, Take Action
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
You Feel Better When You Make the Effort to Smile
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Worry Helps Nothing, Action Does. Choose Action.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Worry Helps Nothing, Action Does. Choose Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Friday, July 9, 2021
Take Action When Needed, But Don't Expend Energy On Worrying
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Smile, Especially When You Don't Feel like It
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries
Friday, February 19, 2021
Worry is the Darkest Cloud
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Advance Thinking and Planning
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Worry is the Darkest Cloud over Our Happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Further reading: Worry, Frustration and Resentment
Beyond Your Worries
Master of My Emotions
Fear of Suffering
Friday, July 3, 2020
Begin by Smiling
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen?
Then prepare to accept it.
Then proceed to improve on the worst.
- Dale Carnegie
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive.
The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
Smile and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
Peace begins with a smile.
- Mother Teresa
Always do the best you can,
and everything else will take care of itself.
Focus your energies on doing what you can
rather than worrying about what you can't.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A smile that begins as an effort and a pretense quickly grows to become genuine,
and given time, a habit of happiness. In the words of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Inner Smile Exercise:
1. Breath slowly, deeply, and consciously.
2. Close your eyes and set the corners of your mouth in just the slightest smile.
3. Visualize your smile growing larger and larger, and your happiness increasing.
Today's affirmation:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Émile Coué
Further reading: Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now
No Regrets
Beyond Your Worries


