Dale Carnegie

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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Produktbeschreibung

With Dale Carnegie's expert advice, you'll learn the proven, time-tested principles to breaking free of worry and anxiety so that you can start living your best life today.

Thanks to Dale Carnegie's classic work of practical advice, more than six million people have already discovered happier, more fulfilling lives. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living has also never been more relevant-particularly since it has been updated for the first time in forty years.

In this indispensable guide, you'll discover how to:

- Quickly pinpoint solutions to any problem that can be put into action right away
- Worry less about business and finances
- Sleep better and feel refreshed each day
- Gain appreciation and gratitude
- Stop getting stuck on criticism

Fascinating to read and easy to apply, this brilliant book cuts to the heart of your most fundamental emotions and provides lasting relief to your worry and anxiety. As millions of others have done, use it to discover your own prosperous, complete, and happy life.

Produktdetails

• Dale Carnegie Books
• Verlag: Gallery Books / Pocket Books
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 267g
• ISBN-13: 9780671035976
• ISBN-10: 0671035975
• Artikelnr.: 13758715

Autorenporträt

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) described himself as a “simple country boy” from Missouri but was also a pioneer of the self-improvement genre. Since the 1936 publication of his first book, How to Win Friends and Influence People , he has touched millions of readers and his classic works continue to impact lives to this day. Visit DaleCarnegie.com for more information.

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Inhaltsangabe

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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