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31. 
List Your Problems
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved,” said Charles Kettering. There is something very special that 
happens when you take out a piece of paper and list every single one of your problems on it. It is very much like 
the peaceful feeling you get after telling your best friend about something that has been troubling you for 
weeks. A weight somehow falls from your shoulders. You feel lighter, calmer and freer. 
I have discovered that while our minds can be our best friends, they can also be our worst enemies. If 
you keep thinking about your problems, pretty soon you will find you think about little else. The mind is a 
strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to 
forget, it remembers. I have people coming to my seminars who tell me they are still mad about what someone 
did to them fifteen years ago or still annoyed at what a rude salesclerk said to them last month. 
To let go of the mental clutter that your problems tend to generate, list all your worries on a piece of 
paper. If you do so, they will no longer be able to fester in your mind and drain your valuable energy. This 
simple exercise will also permit you to put your problems into perspective and tackle them in an orderly, well – 
planned sequence. Among the many successful people who have used this technique are martial arts master 
Bruce Lee and Winston Churchill, who once said, “It helps to write down half a dozen things which are 
worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying; and two 
perhaps can be settled.” 

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32. 
Practice the Action Habit
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,” observed David 
Starr Jordan. Most of us know what we need to do in order to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. 
The real problem is that we don’t do what we know. I have heard many motivational speakers say, “Knowledge 
is power.” I disagree. Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is only potential 
power. It transforms itself into actual 
power the moment you decisively act on it. 
The mark of a strong character lies not in doing what is fun to do or what is easy to do. The sign of deep moral 
authority appears in the individual who consistently does what he ought to be doing rather than what he feels like doing. A 
person of true character spends his days doing that which is the right thing to do. Rather than watching television for three 
hours after an exhausting day at work, he has the courage to get up off the couch and read to his kids. Instead of sleeping 
in on those cold wintry mornings, this individual exercises his natural reserves of self – discipline and gets out of bed for a 
run. And since action is a habit, the more positive actions you take, the more you feel like taking. 
All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made 
by waking, not waiting. Dreaming is great. But thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or 
make you into the person you know in your heart you can be. In the words of Thomas Carlyle, “The end of man is an 
action and not a thought, thought it were the noblest.” The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of 
intentions. 

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