CONTENTS

Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You……………………… 1

Preface How This Book Was Written—and Why… ………………… 3

Part One Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry

Chapter 1 Live in “Day-tight Compartments”………………………… 3

Chapter 2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations……………15

Chapter 3 What Worry May Do to You… ……………………………23

Part Two Basic Techniques in Analysing Worry

Chapter 4 How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems… ……………39

Chapter 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Percent of Your Business Worries ...…47

Part Three How to Break the Worry Habit Before It Breaks You

Chapter 6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind… ………………55

Chapter 7 Don’t Let the Beetles Get You Down………………………65

Chapter 8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries……………73

Chapter 9 Co-operate with the Inevitable… …………………………80

Chapter 10 Put a “ Stop-Loss” Order on Your Worries… ……………91

Chapter 11 Don’t Try to Saw Sawdust…………………………………99

Part Four Seven Ways to Cultivate a Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness

Chapter 12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life…………… 109

Chapter 13 The High Cost of Getting Even………………………… 124

Chapter 14 If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude……134

Chapter 15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have?……141

Chapter 16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No

One Else on Earth Like You…………………………… 149

Chapter 17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade……………… 157

Chapter 18 How to Cure Melancholy in Fourteen Days…………… 166

Part Five The Golden Rule for Conquering Worry

Chapter 19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry… …… 185

Part Six How to Keep from Worrying About Criticism

Chapter 20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog…… 209

Chapter 21 Do This—and Criticism Can’t Hurt You… …………… 213

Chapter 22 Fool Things I Have Done……………………………… 218

Part Seven Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High

Chapter 23 How to Add One Hour a Day to Your Waking Life…… 227

Chapter 24 What Makes You Tired—and What You Can Do About It …232

Chapter 25 How the Housewife Can Avoid Fatigue—and Keep Looking Young 237

Chapter 26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry……………………………………………… 243

Chapter 27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry,

and Resentment………………………………………… 249

Chapter 28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia………… 258

Part Eight How to Find the Kind of Work in Which You May Be Happy and Successful

Chapter 29 The Major Decision of Your Life……………………… 269

Part Nine How to Lessen Your Financial Worries

Chapter 30 “Seventy Percent of All Our Worries....”……………… 281

Part Ten “How I Conquered Worry” —32 True Stories

Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once……………………………… 297

I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour … …… 301

How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex …………………………… 302

I Lived in the Garden of Allah … …………………………………… 307

Five Methods I Use to Banish Worry ………………………………… 311

I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today … …………………………… 315

I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn … ……………………… 317

I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors … …… 319

I Was “the Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech” …………………… 320

I Have Lived by This Sentence ……………………………………… 323

I Hit Bottom and Survived …………………………………………… 324

I Used to Be One of the World’s Biggest Jackasses ………………… 326

I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open …………… 328

I Heard a Voice in India ……………………………………………… 332

When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door … ……………………… 335

The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry … ……………… 338

I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphan’s Home … ………… 340

I Was Acting Like a Hysterical Woman ……………………………… 342

I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes …… 346

I Found the Answer—Keep Busy! …………………………………… 349

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Setbacks ……………………………………………………………… 379

I Was So Worried I Didn’t Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days … ……380