I haven't space in this book to give reasons or show proofs for
everything I suggest, but I want right here to give you a few definite,
short, positive, helpful rules about food, thought, habit and exercise
that will pay you the most wonderful dividends in health and happiness.
First--Drink two or three glasses of warm, not hot, water, the first
thing when you arise in the morning.
Second--Repeat this resolve as you are drinking the water: "I will be
pleasant this morning until ten o'clock, and the rest of the day will
take care of itself."
Third--Walk to your office or place of business, unless it is over four
miles, in which case walk the first three miles and ride the remainder
of the distance.
Fourth--Eat one or two apples every day, and do not insult Nature's
proper adjustment by peeling the apple. You want the skin because it has
things in it you need for your body, and especially for your brain, and
you have especial need of the roughage the skin gives.
[Sidenote: Get Enough Sleep.]
Fifth--Spend eight or nine hours a day in bed. I belong to the
sixty-three hour club; that means nine hours a day rest, seven days in a
week, which is sixty-three hours. If, through business, travel or other
circumstances, I stay up late one or two nights a week, I balance books
before the week is up by taking a rest on Sunday afternoon or going to
bed earlier one or two nights.
Sixth--Don't stay in bed Sunday morning. It will make you tired, loggy,
stupid and cross. Get up Sunday, say, a half hour or an hour later than
week days. Later in the day take a nap if you wish.
Seventh--Spend fifteen minutes just before going to bed in quiet,
relaxed solitude. This is the time to slow down your tension, relax your
muscles and soothe your nerves.
These rules you can easily remember and if you follow them as I hope you
will, the red blood will course in your veins and joy will be in your
countenance and the halo of happiness will be around your face.
20.
Every once in a while the human has a negative day. Every act, thought,
or spoken sentence has a but, a don't, a can't, or some other negative
attachment to it.
[Sidenote: The Negative Attitude.]
The children laugh, play and cut up in the morning, and mother says: "I
don't know what I shall do with you, you are just wearing me out." This
puts a fear-thought and a weakness-germ both in mother and the kiddies.
On Sunday afternoon the family is resting. Mother maybe gets the blues,
and says: "What's the use, I never get anywhere, go any place; it's just
grind, work and worry all the time."
Mother worries because there's a leak in the roof and the water stained
the paper in the spare room. She worries because she lives in a rented
house, and says: "I have no heart to fix things up because this is a
rented house."
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