Contents
PREFACE
- How This Book Was Written -- and Why
- Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most out of This Book
PART ONE
FUNDAMENTAL FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WORRY
- 1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments"
- 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations
- 3 What Worry May Do to You
PART TWO
BASIC TECHNIQUES IN ANALYZING WORRY
- 4 How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems
- 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries
PART THREE
HOW TO BREAK THE WORRY HABIT BEFORE IT BREAKS YOU
- 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
- 7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down
- 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries
- 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable
- 10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries
- 11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust
PART FOUR
SEVEN WAYS TO CULTIVATE A MENTAL ATTITUDE THAT WILL BRING YOU PEACE AND HAPPINESS
- 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life
- 13 The High Cost of Getting Even
- 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude
- 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?
- 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You
- 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade
- 18 How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days
PART FIVE
THE PERFECT WAY TO CONQUER WORRY
- 19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry
PART SIX
HOW TO KEEP FROM WORRYING ABOUT CRITICISM
- 20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog
- 21 Do This -- and Criticism Can't Hurt You
- 22 Fool Things I Have Done
PART SEVEN
SIX WAYS TO PREVENT FATIGUE AND WORRY AND KEEP YOUR ENERGY AND SPIRITS HIGH
- 23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life
- 24 What Makes You Tired -- and What You Can Do About It
- 25 How to Avoid Fatigue -- and Keep Looking Young!
- 26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry
- 27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment
- 28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia
PART EIGHT
"HOW I CONQUERED WORRY"
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once
by C.I. BlackwoodI Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour
by Roger W. BabsonHow I got Rid of an Inferiority Complex
by Elmer ThomasI Lived in the Garden of Allah
by R. V. C. BodleyFive Methods I have Used to Banish Worry
by Professor William Lyon PhelpsI Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today
by Dorothy DixI Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn
by J.C. PenneyI Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors
by Colonel Eddie EaganI Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"
by Jim BirdsallI Have Lived by This Sentence
by Dr. Joseph R. SizooI Hit Bottom and Survived
by Ted EricksenI Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses
by Percy H. WhitingI Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open
by Gene AutryI Heard a Voice in India
by E. Stanley JonesWhen the Sheriff Came in My Front Door
by Homer CroyThe Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry
by Jack DempseyI Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home
by Kathleen HalterMy Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind
by Cameron ShippI Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes
by Reverend William WoodI Found the Answer
by Del HughesTime Solves a Lot of Things!
by Louis T. Montant, Jr.I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger
by Joseph L. RyanI Am a Great Dismisser
by Ordway TeadIf I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago
by Connie MackI Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude
by Arden W. SharpeI Now Look for the Green Light
by Joseph M. CotterHow John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years
I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax
by Paul SampsonA Real Miracle Happened to Me
by Mrs. John BurgerHow Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry
I Was so Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days
by Kathryne Holcombe FarmerINDEX