Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You 1
Preface 3
How This Book Was Written-and Why 3
Part One Fundamental Facts You Should Know about Worry 3
1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments" 3
2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations 18
3 What Worry May Do to You 28
Part Two Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry 45
4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems 45
5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries 55
Part Three How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You 55
6 How to Crowd Worry out of your Mind 65
7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down 77
8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries 86
9 Co-operate with the Inevitable 95
10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries 108
11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust 117
Part Four Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness 117
12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life 127
13 The High Cost of Getting Even 145
14 If You Do This,You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude 156
15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? 165
16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself:Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You 174
17 If You Have a Lemon,Make a Lemonade 184
18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days 194
Part Five The Golden Rule for Conquering Worry 194
19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry 217
Part Six How to Keep from Worrying about Criticism 217
20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog 245
21 Do This—and Criticism Can't Hurt You 250
22 Fool Things I Have Done 256
Part Seven Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High 256
23 How to Add One Hour a Day to your Waking Life 267
24 What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do about It 273
25 How The Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue-and Keep Looking Young 279
26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry 287
27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue,Worry,and Resentment 293
28 How to Keep from Worrying about Insomnia 304
Part Fight How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful 304
29 The Major Decision of Your Life 315
Part Nine How to Lessen Your Financial Worries 315
30 "Seventy Per Cent of All Our Worries..." 329
Part Ten "How I Conquered Worry"—32 True Stories"Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once"BY C.I.Blackwood 349
"I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour" By Roger W.Babson 352
"How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex" By Elmer Thomas 353
"I Lived in The Garden of Allah" By R.V.C.Bodley 359
"Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry"By Professor William Lyon Phelps 363
"I Stood Yesterday.I Can Stand Today"By Dorothy Dix 367
"I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn"By J.C.Penney 369
"I Go to The Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors" By Colonel Eddie Eagan" 371
I Was"The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech" By Jim Birdsall 372
"I Have Lived by This Sentence" By Dr.Joseph R.Sizoo 374
"I Hit Bottom and Survived" By Ted Ericksen 375
"I Used to Be One Of the World's Biggest Jackasses" By Percy H.Whiting 377
"I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open" By Gene Autry 379
"I Heard a Voice in India" By E.Stanley Jones 383
"When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door" By Homer Croy 386
"The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry" By Jack Dempsey 389
"I Prayed to God to Keep Me out of an Orphan's Home" By Kathleen Halter 391
"I Was Acting Like an Hysterical Woman" By Cameron Shipp 393
"I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes" By Reverend William Wood 397
"I Found the Answer-keep Busy!" By Del Hughes 400
"Time Solves a Lot of Things" By Louis T.Montant,Jr 402
"I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger" By Joseph L.Ryan 404
"I Am a Great Dismisser" By Ordway Tead 406
"If I Had Not Stopped Worrying,I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago" By Connie Mack The grand old man of baseball 407
"One at a Time Gentleman,One at a Time" By John Homer Miller 409
"I Now Look for The Green Light" By Joseph M.Cotter 411
How John D.Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years 413
"Reading a Book on Sex Prevented My Marriage From Going on the Rocks" By B.R.W 422
"I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax" By Paul Sampson 424
"A Real Miracle Happened to Me" By Mrs.John Burger 426
"Setbacks By Ferenc Molnar 428
"I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days" By Kathryne Holcombe Farmer 429