Distract yourself: Singing a song or counting backwards by threes in your head can prevent you from worrying over the details of your performance.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell.

By the time a worried parent asked me about a child who had stolen something, I had some answers - because I had already been a worried parent and had asked my own pediatrician.

I stopped and picked it up, and realized that I had been worrying and fretting in my mind about things I cannot change.

With an upcoming political succession in 2012, featuring party cadres without any ties to the communist revolution vying for leadership roles, the politburo has every reason to worry.