Preface
How This Book Was Written--and Why ¡¦ xiii
Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book ¡¦ xviii
Part 1 Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry
1 Live in "Day-tight Compartments" ¡¦ 3
2 A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations ¡¦ 14
3 What Worry May Do to You ¡¦ 21
Part 2 Basic Techniques in Analyzing Worry
4 How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems ¡¦ 35
5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries ¡¦ 44
Part 3 How to Break the Worry Habit Before it Breaks You
6 How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind ¡¦ 51
7 Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down ¡¦ 60
8 A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries ¡¦ 67
9 Co-operate with the Inevitable ¡¦ 73
10 Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries ¡¦ 82
11 Don't Try to Saw Sawdust ¡¦ 9
Part 4 Seven Ways to Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace and Happiness
12 Eight Words That Can Transform Your Life ¡¦ 99
13 The High Cost of Getting Even ¡¦ 111
14 If You Do... This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude ¡¦ 119
15 Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? ¡¦ 125
16 Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You ¡¦ 131
17 If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade ¡¦ 138
18 How to Cure Depression in Fourteen Days ¡¦ 145
Part 5 The Perfect Way to Conquer Worry
19 How My Mother and Father Conquered Worry ¡¦ 161
Part 6 How to Keep From Worrying about Criticism
20 Remember That No One Ever Kicks a Dead Dog ¡¦ 181
21 Do This--and Criticism Can't Hurt You ¡¦ 185
22 Fool Things I Have Done ¡¦ 189
Part 7 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 ¡¦ 197
24 What Makes You Tired--and What You Can Do About It ¡¦ 202
25 How to Avoid Fatigue--and Keep Looking Young! ¡¦ 207
26 Four Good Working Habits That Will Help Prevent Fatigue and Worry ¡¦ 212
27 How to Banish the Boredom That Produces Fatigue, Worry, and Resentment ¡¦ 217
28 How to Keep from Worrying About Insomnia ¡¦ 225
Part 8 "How I Conquered Worry"
Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Once ¡¦ 235
I Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hour¤½237
How I Got Rid of an Inferiority Complex ¡¦ 238
I Lived in the Garden of Allah ¡¦ 242
Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry ¡¦ 245
I Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Today ¡¦ 247
I Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawn ¡¦ 248
I Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoors ¡¦ 250
I Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech" ¡¦ 251
I Have Lived by This Sentence ¡¦ 252
I Hit Bottom and Survived ¡¦ 253
I Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackasses ¡¦ 254
I Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Open ¡¦ 255
I Heard a Voice in India ¡¦ 258
When the Sheriff Came in My Front Door ¡¦ 260
The Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worry ¡¦ 262
I Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Home ¡¦ 263
My Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwind ¡¦ 265
I Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishes ¡¦ 267
I Found the Answer ¡¦ 269
Time Solves a Lot of Things! ¡¦ 270
I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Finger ¡¦ 272
I Am a Great Dismisser ¡¦ 273
If I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Ago ¡¦ 274
I Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitude ¡¦ 275
I Now Look for the Green Light ¡¦ 276
How John D. Rockefeller Lived on Borrowed Time for Forty-five Years ¡¦ 278
I Was Committing Slow Suicide Because I Didn't Know How to Relax 284
A Real Miracle Happened to Me ¡¦ 284
How Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry ¡¦ 286
I Was So Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days ¡¦ 287
Index ¡¦ 293