How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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. BLackwood I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour by Roger W. BAbson How I got Rid of an Inferiority Complex by Elmer Thomas I Lived in the Garden of Allah by R. V. C. BOdley Five Methods I have Used to Banish Worry by Professor William Lyon Phelps I Stood Yesterday. I CAn Stand Today by Dorothy Dix I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn by J.C. PEnney I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors by Colonel Eddie Eagan I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech" by Jim Birdsall I Have Lived by This Sentence by Dr. JOseph R. SIzoo I Hit Bottom and Survived by Ted Ericksen I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses by Percy H. WHiting I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open by Gene Autry I Heard a Voice in India by E. STanley Jones When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door by Homer Croy The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry by Jack Dempsey I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home by Kathleen Halter My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind by Cameron Shipp I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes by Reverend William Wood I Found the Answer by Del Hughes Time 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. RYan I Am a Great Dismisser by Ordway Tead If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago by Connie Mack I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude by Arden W. SHarpe I Now Look for the Green Light by Joseph M. COtter How 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 Sampson A Real Miracle Happened to Me by Mrs. JOhn Burger How