This is where most brands make a critical mistake. By assuming our customers only want to resolve external problems, we fail to engage the deeper story they're actually living. The truth is, the external problems we solve are causing frustrations in their lives and, just like in a story, it's those frustrations that are motivating them to call you.

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.