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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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