How to Stop Worrying and Start Living ???

I was coming back from India after a 5 week long vacation. I was at the Shamshabad airport - baggage checked-in,done with security check and waiting at the gate. I had more than an hour before the boarding starts. I was wandering in the terminal searching for a place to do something so that I can kill some time (didn't want to put-on my iPod/iPhone). I saw some interesting food place called "Khao Galli", got a "Filter Coffee",and a bottle of water. On my way back to the gate I saw a book store, "Odyssey" (it is a book store chain in India). I was never into reading books, so I never bought/borrowed one. Even if some gifts me a book, it will just be lying like any other piece of item in my room. Though I am not into reading books, I always wanted to make it as a habit, but was never successful. Since I had nothing else to do, I went into the book store. I passed through fiction, non-fiction...etc...etc...and directly went into section of books like personality/self development, life changing...kind of books. I was searching like I had something in my mind. I found few books that had some interesting titles and one of them was "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". The other books were about marriage and commitments, and I will not be talking about it this time.

Coming back to the book I picked first, "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". I didn't pick this because I need it. Not that I don't worry and my life is perfect. I do worry about somethings at sometimes, but I don't stop living. I kind of also learned to deal with worries over the past few years. If you have read my previous posts some of them talk about troubles/problem/worries in life, and how we don't deal with them and just give up. I started to read this book at the airport and continued it after boarding the flight. May be this is the first book(non-academic) that I have read with so much interest and concentration. I was so much into it. I read couple of chapters and I liked most of it, because I already follow most of the rules and formulas that were listed in the book to manage/minify worries in day-to-day life.

But the main magic formula by Willis H. Carrier, was something I liked the most because knowing or unknowingly that is the formula of my life from a really long time. I know a lot of people who follow this, and also know a lot of people who should follow this. Tt is really simple, check it out.

"When ever you worry about something. Try this:
1. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can't solve my problem?
2. Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst--if necessary.
3. Then calmly try to improve upon the worst--which you have already mentally agreed to accept."
- Willis H. Carrier

It's been a week since I last read this book, I am back to my routine life and kind of shelved the book, but I will go back to it and finish it, because I didn't buy this book for myself, I will pass this on to my friends who might need it.