How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Informationen zum Autor Dale Carnegie Klappentext For the first time in trade paperback comes Dale Carnegie's classic, six-million copy bestselling guide to taking action and reducing life's worries. Zusammenfassung The first trade paperback edition of the classic guide to conquering the fears and worries that prevent individuals from living full and happy lives offers practical advice on how to eliminate business and financial anxieties, turn criticism into an advantage, avoid fatigue, and more. Reprint. 25,00 Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsPREFACE How This Book Was Written -- and Why Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most out of This BookPART ONEFUNDAMENTAL 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 YouPART TWOBASIC TECHNIQUES IN ANALYZING WORRY 4 How to Analyze and Solve Worry Problems 5 How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business WorriesPART THREEHOW 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 SawdustPART FOURSEVEN 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 DaysPART FIVETHE PERFECT WAY TO CONQUER WORRY 19 How My Mother and Father Conquered WorryPART SIXHOW 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 DonePART SEVENSIX 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 InsomniaPART EIGHT"HOW I CONQUERED WORRY"Six Major Troubles Hit Me All at Onceby C.I. BlackwoodI Can Turn Myself into a Shouting Optimist Within an Hourby Roger W. BabsonHow I got Rid of an Inferiority Complexby Elmer ThomasI Lived in the Garden of Allahby R. V. C. BodleyFive Methods I have Used to Banish Worry by Professor William Lyon PhelpsI Stood Yesterday. I Can Stand Todayby Dorothy DixI Did Not Expect to Live to See the Dawnby J.C. PenneyI Go to the Gym to Punch the Bag or Take a Hike Outdoorsby Colonel Eddie EaganI Was "The Worrying Wreck from Virginia Tech"by Jim BirdsallI Have Lived by This Sentenceby Dr. Joseph R. SizooI Hit Bottom and Survivedby Ted EricksenI Used to Be One of the World's Biggest Jackassesby Percy H. WhitingI Have Always Tried to Keep My Line of Supplies Openby Gene AutryI Heard a Voice in Indiaby E. Stanley JonesWhen the Sheriff Came in My Front Doorby Homer CroyThe Toughest Opponent I Ever Fought Was Worryby Jack DempseyI Prayed to God to Keep Me Out of an Orphans' Homeby Kathleen HalterMy Stomach Was Twisting Like a Kansas Whirlwindby Cameron ShippI Learned to Stop Worrying by Watching My Wife Wash Dishesby Reverend William WoodI Found the Answerby Del HughesTime Solves a Lot of Things!by Louis T. Montant, Jr.I Was Warned Not to Try to Speak or to Move Even a Fingerby Joseph L. RyanI Am a Great Dismisserby Ordway TeadIf I Had Not Stopped Worrying, I Would Have Been in My Grave Long Agoby Connie MackI Got Rid of Stomach Ulcers and Worry by Changing My Job and My Mental Attitudeby Arden W. SharpeI Now Look for the Green Lightby Joseph M. CotterHow John ...

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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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Product details

• Authors: Dale Carnegie, Carnegie Dale
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.10.2004
• EAN: 9780671035976
• ISBN: 978-0-671-03597-6
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Dale Carnegie Books
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Angst, Positives Denken, SELF-HELP / General, Self-help & personal development, Self-help, personal development and practical advice