Planning is not Worrying!

The Las Vegas Faith Center
Message From Our Sunday Services
Planning is not Worrying! 
by Sr. Pastor: Tiger Todd
(702) 223-1111

Many people have trouble separating the good habit of “proper planning” from the destructive habit of “worrying”. Whether the subject is the Schiavo controversy, or the mindset of the homeless in my financial class at Catholic Charities, people regularly confuse these two diametrically opposed issues.

We know that without some level of self-sufficiency, which comes from having an action plan, no life can be sufficiently lived. As Thomas Stanley so eloquently stated in The Millionaire Next Door:

“The Rich plan for three generations, and the poor plan for Saturday night!”

But we must also protect ourselves from the tendency to worry about the future, adding our own negative spin to life before it even has a chance to unfold. Some have said that it our own worry that brings to pass what we want the least and fear the most:

“That which I have so greatly feared has come upon me.”  Job

The following is a list of great quotes to help you and those you know to clearly delineate between proper planning- hopes for the future and the setting of goals- from the destructive and disempowering habit of worrying. Let us not allow worry to rob us of the power of today!
Tiger Todd, Founder

“When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell

The world is filled with people all preparing to live, but never actually living.

“If you are not living your true life, you are being lived.” Stephen Covey

The past is only a guidepost to the future

“Live today as if you are living already for the second time, and you are about to act as wrongly as you did the first!”  Viktor Frankl

Some people go through today carrying the burdens of all their yesterdays and tomorrows.

“Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I never think of the future; it comes soon enough.”  Albert Einstein

Those who are mentally well have the ability to live in the present moment.

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.” Jesus Christ

“Make today your masterpiece.”  John Wooden