The day has only so many hours. We can only do so much. And there is so much in every day that we cannot change, cannot impact, no matter what we do. Yet, if you are like me, you can find many occasions in a day when you allow your spirit to be troubled and chaotic about something you cannot control. We waste our spirit's true energy, squandering it on the worthless worries in our lives.

I was recently reading an article published by my financial planner's firm and it talks about an old saying on Wall Street that "the stock market climbs a wall of worry". Anyone who even remotely watches the financial news knows that if Chairman so and so as much as sneezes wrong the Dow and NASDAQ can plunge and investors scurry around like deranged rats in a test lab. Our system and the markets are indeed a bit odd but that's the way the economy rolls. Yet there are sound ways to not only make money over the long term but also be quiet and peaceful on the inside as you do so.

Americans in general have had fear, spectres of terrorists and safety threats, shoved down their throats for a while now, everything from potentially imminent bombings to a possible Avian Flu pandemic. However New York Post columnist John Podhoretz ponders that young parents in particular are bombarded with potential threats to their children's safety and health, threats that may not deserve great concern.