Internationally acclaimed life skill guide featured on coast-to-coast television and over 4,500 radio stations around the world.
I wrote Worry Circle for the same reason I teach it with such great passion: to help people. I was in London when I learned of the Lehman collapse and, since London is a world banking center like New York, I knew instantly what the news would mean domestically and abroad. Worry would skyrocket.
Having specialized in the topic for a long time, I felt compelled to share what I know with others. Thanks to my publicists (Meryl Moss and Deb Zipf) I’ve been able to talk about the Worry Circle on national television and global radio, from coast to coast and on 4,500 radio stations worldwide.
Putting what I knew about the subject into a fun, easy to read, no nonsense help guide has been an inspiring project of personal fulfillment. Anyone who wants to get better at managing his or her head now easily can; this is a doable, vital life skill that schools and companies do not teach but should.
My message viewers and listeners when I talk about it is simple and straightforward: read it, learn it, share it. Help others help themselves.
The explanations and learning points were developed by research gleaned from the answer of over 4,000 people from six continents. I asked them what they worry about and why. From the data I synthesized trends, then distilled key findings into easy-to-understand learning points and worked hard to put them in a logical and sequential order so anyone who wanted to understand how their mind processes these things would easily be able to.
My interest in worry germinated from a round golf twenty-five years ago with a buddy who worried about nothing but whose wife worried about everything. Consequently, they argued a lot and a split was imminent. Their discontent piqued my curiosity. How could two people fall in love because of who they are, yet grow apart because of how their minds handled a common human behavior?
Because of that round of golf, and because I’m relentlessly curious about why things are (or are not) I decided to learn everything I could about worrying.
The subject became a visit to Wonderland. The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn. As my subject matter expertise increased, I felt compelled to share what I knew. So I started teaching it. I had struck a nerve and knew it.
I have traveled the world sharing and learning, and because of it I was able to filter things into human commonalities. My principles are universal. They have been proven relevant and on-point by readers around the world. Young, old, rich, poor, gay or straight, we all worry; it’s very much a human condition. The art therefore, comes from learning how to manage it smartly and make ourselves better people.
Every consonant, every vowel, of Managing the Worry Circle is a labor of love. I am tremendously proud of having written it. I’m even prouder of those who’ve improved their lives by taking the time to read it.