For us, the most important thing is not to see things that are vague in the distance, but to do things that are clear at hand. In the spring of 1871, a young man saw a book and read a sentence that had a great influence on his future.He is a medical student at Monterey General Hospital, and his life is full of worries, not knowing how he will pass the final exam, what to do, where to go, how to start a business, how to live, etc. Wait. This young medical student saw that sentence in 1871, and he became the most famous medical scientist later. He founded the world-renowned Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and became the King Lecturer of Oxford University School of Medicine. Professor - this is the highest honor a person who studies medicine in the British Empire can get, and he was also knighted by the King of England.He lived a carefree life, and after his death, two volumes of 1,466 pages were needed to describe his life.

His name was William Osler.Here is what he saw in the spring of 1871—a sentence written by Thomas Carlyle: "It is of prime importance to us not to look at distant and vague things, but to do Clear things at hand." For the first time in 42 years, on a mild spring evening, when tulips were blooming on campus, Sir William Osler gave a lecture to the students of Yale University.He told the Yale students that a man who had been a professor at four universities and had written a hugely popular book seemed like he should have a "special mind," but he didn't. Said that some of his friends know that his brain is actually "the most ordinary".

So what is the secret of his success?He thinks it's all because he lives in the so-called "today of complete independence".What does this sentence mean?A few months before Sir Osler gave a speech at Yale University, he was crossing the Atlantic on a huge ship. He saw the captain standing in the wheelhouse, pressed a button, and immediately heard a sound of machinery running. Sections are immediately isolated from each other—into compartments that are completely watertight. "Every one of you," Sir Osler said to the Yale students, "is far more finely organized than that ship, and has a farther voyage to cover, and I advise you to learn too. That captain, who knows how to control everything, and living in a 'today of complete independence' is the way to be sure of infallibility on a voyage. Go to the wheelhouse and you'll find those big compartments at least usable, Press the button, listen to every aspect of your life, shut the future with iron gates - the dead tomorrow. Then you're insured - you have today... Cut off the past and let the dead past bury it , to cut off those yesterdays that lead fools to their deaths...tomorrow's burdens, added to yesterday's burdens, will be today's greatest obstacles, to shut the future as tightly as the past...the future lies in Today...there is no such thing as tomorrow, and the day when human beings can be redeemed is now. The waste of energy and mental depression will follow a person who is worried about the future...then close the large compartments in the front and back of the ship, Get ready to develop a good habit and live in total independence today."

Does Sir Osler mean that we should not work hard to prepare for tomorrow?No, absolutely not.In that speech, he also said: "The best way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate all your wisdom and enthusiasm to do today's work to perfection. This is the only way you can cope with the future." Do think about tomorrow, yes, think carefully, plan and prepare, but don't worry. In time of war, military leaders must plan for the future, yet they must not have any anxiety. "I put our best equipment into the best hands," said Admiral Ernest King, who commanded the U.S. Navy. .”

"If a ship goes down," Admiral King continued, "I can't bring it up, and I can't stop it from going down. I spend more time solving tomorrow's problems than I do." It’s much better to regret yesterday’s problems, besides, if I worry about these things, I can’t hold on for a long time.” The difference between a good idea and a bad idea, whether in wartime or peacetime, is this: a good idea takes cause and effect into account, resulting in a very logical and constructive plan; whereas a bad idea usually leads to A person's nervousness and nervous breakdown.

I recently had the honor of interviewing Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the most famous New York Times in the world.Mr. Sulzberger told me that when the Second World War burned through Europe, he was so surprised and so worried about the future that he couldn't sleep or eat.He often climbed out of bed in the middle of the night, took paint and canvas, looked in the mirror, and wanted to paint a self-portrait.Although he didn't know anything about painting, he painted anyway so that he wouldn't worry about it.In the end, Mr. Sulzberger told me, he used a line from a hymn as his motto, and finally he was relieved of his worries and found peace.The saying goes: "Just one step is all it takes."

About this time a young man in the army, Ted Benjamino, of Baltimore City, Maryland--who had been almost completely lost in worry--was learning the same lesson. fighting spirit. Ted Benjamino wrote: "In April, 1945, I was so sad that I suffered from what the doctors called a 'spasm of the colon', which was excruciatingly painful if the war had not ended by then , I think my whole body will collapse. "I was exhausted. I was a non-commissioned officer in the 94th Infantry Division. My job was to establish and maintain a record of those killed, wounded and missing in combat, and to help uncover those who were killed in the heat of the war. Soldiers who have been hastily buried in graves, I have to collect the personal belongings of those people, and I have to send those things back to the family or next of kin who value them. I worry about whether I can make it through, I worry about whether I can To be able to go back alive and hold my only son in my arms - a 16 month son I've never met. I'm worried and tired, I've lost 34 lbs and I'm going crazy with worry. I see my two My hands became skinny. I was terrified at the thought of coming home emaciated, I broke down, cried like a child, trembling... For a while, shortly after the last German counteroffensive, I used to cry, It made me almost give up hope that I could be a normal person again.

"I ended up in the hospital and an army doctor gave me some advice which changed my life completely. After a thorough physical examination, he told me that my problem was purely mental.' Ted,' he said, 'I want you to think of your life as an hourglass, and you know that in the upper half of the hourglass, there are thousands of grains of sand flowing slowly and evenly through the middle The narrow gap. You and I can't get more than two grains of sand through that narrow gap at the same time, except by breaking the hourglass. You and I and everyone are like this hourglass. There is a lot of work at the beginning of each morning. , making us feel like we have to get it done in that day. But we can only do one thing at a time, let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, like sand through a narrow slit, or it will definitely damage us own body or mind.'

"I've lived with this philosophy since that memorable day when the officer told me these words. 'Flow one grain of sand at a time...do one thing at a time.' This advice It has saved my body and mind, and it has also greatly helped me in my current job in the public relations and advertising department of a craft printing company. I found that in the business field, there are also problems like on the battlefield. One time to do Completed several things - but not enough time. For example, we ran out of materials, we had new forms to process, new materials to be arranged, address changes, branch openings and closings, etc. I No more jitters because I remember what the medic told me: 'Flow one grain of sand at a time, do one thing at a time.' I repeat these words to myself over and over again. I work more efficiently than ever , and do it without the feeling of disorientation and confusion that nearly crushed me on the battlefield."

One of the scariest things about the current way of life is that more than half of the beds in our hospitals are reserved for people with neurological or mental problems.They are all patients weighed down by the combined weight of accumulated yesterdays and worrisome todays.And most of those patients could walk the streets and live their lives if only they could follow the words of Jesus - don't worry about tomorrow, or Sir William Osler's words - and live in a completely independent today. Live happily and happily. You and I, at this present moment, stand at the meeting point of two eternities - past forever and ever, and stretching into an infinity future - neither of which we can live, Not even for a second.We would destroy ourselves physically and mentally if we tried to do that.So let's just be content to live as long as we can. "From now until we go to bed, no matter how heavy the task, each one can support until the night comes," wrote Robert Stevenson. "No matter how hard the work, each one can do his day's work. , everyone can live sweetly, patiently, cutely, and purely until the sun goes down, and this is the true meaning of life.”

Yes, that is all that life requires of us.However, Mrs. Sheard, who lives in Sachina, Michigan, felt extremely depressed and exhausted before she learned "just live until you go to bed", and even wanted to commit suicide. "My husband died in 1937," Mrs. Sheard told me of her past, "and I felt very depressed—and almost penniless. I wrote to my old boss, Mr. Leorowski, asking him to let me Go back to my old job. I used to sell The World Encyclopedia for a living. I sold my car two years ago when my husband was sick, and now I can scrape together the installment money to buy an old car. Car, return to old business, go out to sell books. "I thought that going back to work might help me out of my depression; but driving and eating alone is almost unbearable to me. Some areas can't make any achievements at all, although the installment payment to buy a car The amount is not large, but it is difficult to pay off. "In the spring of 1938, I was in Visaley, Missouri, where the schools were poor, the roads were bad, and I was alone and depressed, so at one point I even wanted to kill myself. I thought success was not It is possible, but there is no hope of living. Every morning I am afraid to get up and face life. I am afraid of everything, afraid that I will not be able to pay the installment car payment, afraid that I will not be able to pay the rent, afraid that there will not be enough to eat, afraid of My health deteriorated and I had no money to see a doctor. The only reason I didn't kill myself was because I was worried that my sister would feel bad about it and she didn't have enough money to pay for my funeral. "Then one day, I read an article that gave me the courage to go on living. I am forever grateful for the inspirational line in that article: 'To a wise man, every day is a new day. life.' I typed this sentence and stuck it on the front windshield of my car so I could see every minute of it while I was driving. I found it easy to live one day at a time, and I learned to forget the past , not wanting the future, every morning I say to myself: 'Today is another new life.' "I've managed to overcome my fear of being alone and needy and I'm happy and successful and full of zest and love for life. I now know that no matter what happens in life, I'm not afraid I know now that I live one day at a time—and 'to a wise man every day is a new life'." Guess who wrote the following lines: These few sentences sound very modern, but they were written 30 years before Christ was born. Its author was the ancient Roman poet Horace. I know the saddest thing about human nature is that all of us don't live, we all dream of a wonderful rose garden in the sky, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming in the window today. Why have we become such poor fools? "How strange is the short course of our lives," writes Stephen Leighock. "Little kids say, 'When I'm a big kid...' But so what? Big kids say, 'When I'm a man After...' Then when he was grown up, he said: 'When I get married...' But what if I get married? Their thinking became 'When I retire...'. Then, After retirement, looking back at everything that has been through, it seems that there is a cold wind blowing - they missed everything, and it is gone forever. We always fail to learn this truth early: life In life, in every day and every moment." The late Mr. Edward Evans of Detroit almost killed himself because of worry before he understood that "life is in life, in every day and every moment." Edward Evans was born in a poor family, first he sold newspapers for a living, and then worked as a clerk in a grocery store.Later, seven members of his family relied on him for food, and he found a position as an assistant librarian. Although the salary was very low, he dared not resign.It wasn't until 8 years later that he worked up the courage to start his own business.Once he started, he used the $55 he borrowed to make a big business, earning $20,000 a year. Soon, however, bad luck struck—very terrible bad luck: he was carrying a large check for a friend, and that friend went bankrupt.Soon, this disaster was followed by another disaster. The big bank in which all his property was stored collapsed, and he not only lost all his money, but was also in debt for $16,000."I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep," he told me, "and I began to have strange illnesses. For no other reason than worry. One day, while I was walking on the road, I passed out. On the side of the road, I can no longer walk. They let me lie on the bed, my whole body is rotten, the wound gradually rots inward, I can't even stand on the bed. My body is getting weaker and weaker, and finally The doctor told me that I had only two weeks to live. I was taken aback, wrote my will, and lay in bed to die. It was useless to struggle or worry, so I had to give up and relax. For weeks on end I can't sleep for two hours every day. But because all the troubles are about to end at this time, I sleep like a child. The tired worries gradually disappeared, and my body recovered. Also started gaining weight. "After a few weeks, I was able to walk with a cane. After 6 weeks, I was able to go back to work. I used to make $20,000 a year, but now I can find a job for $30 a week. Thank goodness already. My job is to sell the fenders that are used on the back of the wheels on the boats that carry cars. By this time, I have learned not to worry, not to regret what happened in the past, nor to worry about the future Yes. I put all of my time, energy, and enthusiasm on the pitch." Edward Evans made rapid progress. In a few years, he became the chairman of Evans Industries.For many years the company was a New York Stock Exchange company.If you fly to Greenland, chances are you'll land at Evans Airport - the airport is named in his honor.However, Edward Evans would never have achieved such a brilliant achievement if he had not learned to "live in a completely independent today". You probably still remember this sentence: "The rule here is that you can eat jam tomorrow, you can eat jam yesterday, but you can't eat jam today." The same is true for most of us: worry about yesterday's jam, worry about tomorrow's jam, But I will not spread today's jam thickly on the bread I am eating now. Even the great French philosopher Montan made similar mistakes. "My life," he said, "has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which have never happened before." So it is with my life and yours. "Consider," said the great poet Dante, "the day that will never come again." Today is what we cherish the most, and it is the only period of time that we can truly grasp. This is also the view of my friend Lauwell Thomas.While I was spending a weekend with him at his farm recently, I noticed that he was quoting verse 118 of the Bible, framed and hanging on the wall next to his radio so he could always see it.These two sentences are: Another friend of mine, John Ruskin, had a stone on his desk with only two words carved on it—“TODAY.”I don't have any stones on my desk, and I don't hang warnings on the wall, but I have a poem pasted upside down on my mirror, and I can see it every morning when I shave--this is William O. The poem Sir Seller had on his desk--the poem was written by a well-known Indian dramatist, Harida Shah.Here, may wish to contribute it to the readers. So, the first thing you should know about worry, if you don't want it to interfere with your life, is to learn from Sir William Osler - "Separate the past from the future with an iron gate, and live in complete independence today." Now, please ask yourself the following questions, and then write down the answers to each question: 1. Am I ignoring the present and only worrying about the future?Or just pursue the so-called "distant and wonderful rose garden"? 2. Do I often regret things that have happened in the past and make the present worse because of things that have happened and been done? 3. When I got up early in the morning, did I form a clear consciousness-"I want to seize today" and make the best use of these 24 hours? 4. If I really do what Sir William Osler said "live in a completely independent today", will it enable me to get more from life? 5. When should I start doing this, next week, tomorrow, or today?