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by sleep, and by suggestions made in this book.
There are few advance danger signals shown by the nervous systems,
and in this there is a marked difference between the nerves and the
organic system.
If you abuse your stomach, head, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys or eyes,
you have distress and pain.
The nervous energy is like a barrel of water; you can draw water from
the faucet at the bottom until you have almost exhausted the contents.
Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each day, like the rains replenish
the cistern.
A reasonable use of your nerve force, like a reasonable use of the
rainwater, means you can maintain a permanent supply.
But you must be reasonable; you must give the cistern a chance to refill
and replace that which you have drawn out.
You, who have shattered and tattered your nerves, are not hopeless.
You can come back, but it must be done by complete change of the acts
that brought on the condition.
Get more sleep. Eliminate the useless, harmful fads, fancies and

functions, which disturbed and prevented you from living a sane,
rational life.
Avoid extremes, cultivate rhythm and regularity in your business and
your home life. Keep away from excitement. Read really good books.
Walk more, talk less.
Eat less heat-making foods and more apples. Follow the diet, exercise
and thought rules suggested in "Pep."
Maybe these lines are being read by a discouraged one who is "all
nerves," which means lost nerve force. To you I say there is hope and
cheer and strength and courage if right here, now, you resolve to cut the
action, habits and stunts that knocked you out and follow our
suggestions.
I know, my friend, for I've trotted the heat, danced the measure, and
been through the mill.
Now I am fearless, calm and prepared. I can stand any calamity, meet
any issue, endure any sorrow.
I can do prodigious work in an emergency, go without rest or eating
when required, because I have Pep, which means poise,
efficiency--peace.
I realize nothing bad is as bad as it is painted. Nothing is as good as its
boosters claim.
I go in the middle of the road, avoiding extremes. I have confidence in
my heart, courage, hope, happiness, and content.
I've buried envy in a deep pit and covered it with quick lime.
I am keeping worry out by keeping faith, hope and cheer thoughts in
my brain room, and these are antiseptics against the worry microbe.
I have my petty troubles and little make-believe worries, just enough of
them to make me realize I have them licked, and to remind me I must

not let up on my mastery of them.
Worry growls once in a while just to make me grab tighter the handle
of my whip.
And you may enjoy this serene state, too. There is no secret about it. I
will gladly give you the rules of the game in this book. Just prepare to
receive some practical, helpful suggestions.

MAKING PLANS
How to Use Our Assets to Best Advantage
You are a busy person, so am I. Busy persons are the ones who do
things. The architect is a busy man, but he has learned that the time
spent in preparing his plans is the most valuable employment of his
time. The plans enable him to do his work systematically and lay down
rules and methods to get the highest efficiency and accomplishment
from those who do the work of erecting the building.
If the architect would order lumber, stone and hardware, without
system, and start to erect the building without carefully prepared plans,
the building would lack symmetry and strength, and it would be most
expensive.
The planning time therefor was time well spent.
Few persons have the ability to plan and conserve their talents so as to
produce the highest efficiency. Men rush along thinking their busyness
means business. Really it means double energy and extra moves to
produce a given effect.
The elimination of unnecessary moves means operating along lines of
least resistance, and any plan or method that will help to do away with
unnecessary moves and make the necessary moves more potential will
be received with welcome, I am sure.

With the object of conserving energy and strengthening your force, this
book is written.
It shall not be a book of ultimate definiteness or a book of exact science.
There is no definite or exact rule that will apply, without exceptions, to
any science except mathematics.
But we shall learn many helpful truths, nevertheless, and if I err or
disagree with your conclusions, just eliminate those lines and take the
helps you find.
In my previous book, "Pep," I particularly emphasized the importance
of taking a few minutes each evening and using