How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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

and Spirits High RULE 1: Rest

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

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

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

“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.

“If you have what seems to you insufficient,” said one of Rome’s greatest philosophers, Seneca, “then you will be miserable even if you possess the world.”

I didn’t mind wrestling with worries that gave me a fighting chance to solve them,

ninety-nine per cent of the things we worry and stew and fret about never happen,

today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

when I began to prepare a speech I didn’t know what the liberal arts were, but it didn’t matter much because my audience didn’t know. either.

These experiences demonstrated to me the vital importance of one’s mental attitude. They taught me the importance of enjoying life while you may. So I live every day now as if it were the first day I had ever seen and the last I were going to see. I am excited about the daily adventure of living, and nobody in a state of excitement will be unduly troubled with worries.

one of the chief reasons for success in life is enthusiasm.

depression and worry oozed out of my system with the sweat.