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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 WORRYCA
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 Hourby 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 Outdoorsby Colonel Eddie Eagan
I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech" by Jim Birdsall
I Have Lived by This Sentence
by Dr. Joseph R. SizooI 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 Indiaby 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 Dishesby Reverend William Wood
I Found the Answer by Del Hughes
Time Solves a Lot of Thingsby 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 Dismisserby Ordway Tead
If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Agoby 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 Lightby 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 Relaxby Paul Sampson
A Real Miracle Happened to Meby Mrs. John Burger
How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry
I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Daysby Kathryne Holcombe Farmer
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