Show Mental Ment l Doors By JOHN BLAKE The faculty of shutting a door in the mind against worry orry Is rare Yet many people possess it ft These are not only happier but usually mor mo competent compete t. t Next to indolence worry is the worst foe to o ac accomplishment ac- ac S The man who takes his business home and spends the time Ume he ought to be spending in itt re relaxation re- re In fussing OVEr o little trifles in vain re regrets regrets regrets re- re grets and useless awakes the next morning tired and v For Tor him the business da day is almost twenty-four twenty hours long for e. e ev even n in his sleep p his troubles come back to haunt him What has been clone done cannot be helped but Itcan itcan it itcan can be made up for to some extent the following day If It a man has not undertaken a job I that Is beyond be- be yond jond his present capacity there is no reason for him to wo worry ry about it out of office hours He lie may may by the exertion of his wIll shut a mental mental men men- tal door doot against that particularly distressing kind of thought and exclude it during his hours of rest He He- will wUl be far better off oCt if U he does I knew n it fairly successful businessman mn who for many years was a chronic worrier Every little thing that went wrong at his office he brooded over when he was at home home He Ho could get neither at t the theatre nor in any of the pursuits which he followed In his leisure in an effort efort t to restore his poise One day his doctor said ot him If you dont don't stop worrying you are going to die die But Hut I can cant can't t stop worrying said the man Its become a habit with me me All An right die then was the doctors doctor's reply The man took that statement home with him for the first tim time in his life he had worth worrying about After a couple of nights he decided that he did not want to dl di die and cast about for lor ways and means to help him stop worrying It was difficult at first but every time he thought about dying with so little accomplished d and so much to be done he set his will power ver a little harder against worry The thought of leaving life was more appalling than thoughts about little trou trou- ble le in his business Inside of a week he was back at the doctors doctor's Doctor he said will I really live if I stop worrying worryIng will will I live to a good old age to- to Barring accidents and exposure to deadly In Infection In- In you probably will said aid the doctor Ho He went home happy He slammed his me mental tal door against the cares of ol the day when he closed his desk at night Today he is 60 and successful And he h is al always always at- at ways serene and composed I The door in his mind whose existence he did not suspect is closed eVer every night And it H shuts out the enemy that was killing him Copyright 1925 1025 by the Bell Syndicate |