How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

remember the day last week when you were constantly interrupted. No letters answered. Appointments broken. Trouble here and there. Everything went wrong that day. You accomplished nothing whatever, yet you went home exhausted—and with a splitting head.

our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.

Where your interests are, there is your energy also.

William James counseled us to act “as if” we were brave, and we would be brave; and to act “as if” we were happy, and we would be happy, and so on.

Act “as if” you were interested in your job, and that bit of acting will tend to make your interest real. It will also tend to decrease your fatigue, your tensions, and your worries.

Since you have to do it-why not have a good time doing it?

By talking to yourself every hour of the day, you can direct yourself to think thoughts of courage and happiness, thoughts of power and peace.

you spend about one half of your waking hours at your work, and if you don’t find happiness in your work, you may never find it anywhere.

Keep reminding yourself that getting interested in your job will take your mind off your worries, and, in the long run, will probably bring promotion and increased pay. Even if it doesn’t do that, it will reduce fatigue to a minimum and help you enjoy your hours of leisure.

Go to bed at night, and if you can’t fall asleep, forget all about it. Just say to yourself: “I don’t care a hang if I don’t go to sleep. It’s all right with me if I lie awake till morning.” Keep your eyes closed and say: “As long as I just lie still and don’t worry about it, I’ll be getting rest, anyway.”

The first requisite for a good night’s sleep is a feeling of security.

One of the best cures for insomnia is making yourself physically tired by gardening, swimming, tennis, golf, skiing, or by just plain physically exhausting work.

Remember that no one was ever killed by lack of sleep. Worrying about insomnia usually causes far more damage than sleeplessness

Six Ways to Prevent Fatigue and Worry and Keep Your Energy and Spirits High RULE 1: Rest before you get tired. RULE 2: Learn to relax at your work. RULE 3: If you are a housewife, protect your health and appearance by relaxing at home RULE 4: Apply these four good working habits Clear your desk of all papers except those relating to the immediate problem at hand. Do things in the order of their importance. When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Learn to organise, deputise, and supervise. RULE 5: To prevent worry and fatigue, put enthusiasm into your work. RULE 6: Remember, no one was ever killed by lack of sleep. It is worrying about insomnia that does the damage—not the insomnia PART EIGHT HOW TO FIND THE KIND OF

“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

I think no one else is so much to be pitied as the person who gets nothing at all out of his work but his pay.”

Where a man had no interest, where he felt he was misplaced, where he thought he was not appreciated, where he believed his talents were being misused, invariably we found a potential if not an actual psychiatric casualty.”

“More money is not the answer to most people’s financial worries. In fact, I have often seen it happen that an increase in income accomplished nothing but an increase in spending—and an increase in headaches.

What causes most people to worry,” she said, “is not that they haven’t enough money, but that they don’t know how to spend the money they have!”...

If you are carrying life insurance to provide for your family after you’re gone, do not, I beg of you, have your insurance paid in one lump sum.