Contents 1
Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You 1
Part One Fundamental Facts You Should Know about Worry 1
Preface How This Book Was Written—and Why 3
1 Live in"Day-tight Compartments" 3
2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations 16
3 What Worry May Do to You 24
Part Two Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry 37
4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems 39
5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries 49
Part Three How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You 55
6 How to Crowd Worry out of Your Mind 57
7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down 68
8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries 76
9 Co-operate with the Inevitable 84
10 Put a"Stop-Loss"Order on Your Worries 96
11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust 104
Part Four Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness 111
12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life 113
13 The High,Cost of Getting Even 128
14 If You Do This,You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude 138
15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? 146
16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself:Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You 154
17 If You Have a Lemon,Make a Lemonade 162
18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days 171
Part Five The Golden Rule for Conquering Worry 187
19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry 189
Part Six How to Keep from Worrying about Criticism 211
20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog 213
21 Do This—and Criticism Can't Hurt You 217
22 Fool Things I Have Done 222
Part Seven Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High 229
23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life 231
24 What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do About It 237
25 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young 242
26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry 249
27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue,Worry,and Resentment 255
28 How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia 264
Part Eight How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful 273
29 The Major Decision of Your Life 275
Part Nine How to Lessen Your Financial Worries 285
30 "Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries... " 287
Part Ten "How I Conquered Worry"—32 True Stories 303
"Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once"By C.I.Blackwood 305
"I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour"By Roger W. Babson 308
"How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex"By Elmer Thomas 309
"I Lived in the Garden of Allah"BY R.V.C.Bodley 313
"Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry"By Professor William Lyon Phelps 317
"I Stood Yesterday.I Can Stand Today"By Dorothy Dix 320
"I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn"By J.C.Penney 321
"I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors"By Colonel Eddie Eagan 323
"I Was the Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"By Jim Birdsall 324
"I Have Lived by This Sentence"By Dr.Joseph R.Sizoo 326
"I Hit Bottom and Survived"By Ted Ericksen 327
"I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses"By Percy H.Whiting 328
"I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open"By Gene Autry 330
"I Heard a Voice in India"By E.Stanley Jones 333
"When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door"By Homer Croy 335
"The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry"By Jack Dempsey 338
"I Prayed to God to Keep Me out of an Orphan's Home"By Kath-leen Halter 340
"I Was Acting Like an Hysterical Woman"By Cameron Shipp 341
"I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes"By Reverend.William Wood 345
"I Found the Answer-Keep Busy!"By Del Hughes 347
"Time Solves a Lot of Things"By Louis T.Montant,Jr. 349
"I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger"By Joseph L.Ryan 351
"I Am a Great Dismisser"By Ordway Tead 352
"If I Had Not Stopped Worrying,I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago"By Connie Mack 353
"One at a Time,Gentlemen,One at a Time"By John Homer Mill-er 355
"I Now Look for the Green Light"By Joseph M.Cotter 357
How John D.Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years 359
"Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage from Going on the Rocks"By B.R.W. 366
"I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax"By Paul Sampson 368
"A Real Miracle Happened to Me"By Mrs.John Burger 369
"Setbacks"BY Ferenc Molnar 371
"I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days"By Kathryne Holcombe Farmer 372