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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 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 Benjamin Franklin Conquered Worry

I Was so Worried I Didn't Eat a Bite of Solid Food for Eighteen Days
by Kathryne Holcombe Farmer

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