Have A Good Mental Attitude by John Samson
Success is in the blood. There are men whom fate can never keep
down they march forward in a jaunty manner, and take by divine
right the best of everything that the earth affords. But their
success is not attained by means of the Samuel
Smiles-Connecticut policy. They do not lie in wait, nor scheme,
nor fawn, nor seek to adapt their sails to catch the breeze of
popular favor. Still, they are ever alert and alive to any good
that may come their way, and when it comes they simply
appropriate it, and tarrying not, move steadily on.
Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in,
carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the
utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile,
and put soul into every hand-clasp.
Do not fear being misunderstood; and never waste a moment
thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your own mind
what you would like to do, and then without violence of
direction you will move straight to the goal.
Fear is the rock on which we split, and hate the shoal on which
many a barque is stranded. When we become fearful, the judgment
is as unreliable as the compass of a ship whose hold is full of
iron ore; when we hate, we have unshipped the rudder; and if
ever we stop to meditate on what the gossips say, we have
allowed a hawser to foul the screw.
Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you would like to
do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself
unconsciously seizing the opportunities that are required for
the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes
from the running tide the elements that it needs. Picture in
your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and
the thought that you hold is hourly transforming you into that
particular individual you so admire.
Thought is supreme, and to think is often better than to do.
Preserve a right mental attitude the attitude of courage,
frankness and good cheer.
Darwin and Spencer have told us that this is the method of
Creation. Each animal has evolved the parts it needed and
desired. The horse is fleet because he wishes to be; the bird
flies because it desires to; the duck has a web foot because it
wants to swim. All things come through desire and every sincere
prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are
fixed.
Many people know this, but they do not know it thoroughly enough
so that it shapes their lives. We want friends, so we scheme and
chase 'cross lots after strong people, and lie in wait for good
folks or alleged good folks hoping to be able to attach
ourselves to them. The only way to secure friends is to be one.
And before you are fit for friendship you must be able to do
without it. That is to say, you must have sufficient
self-reliance to take care of yourself, and then out of the
surplus of your energy you can do for others.
The individual who craves friendship, and yet desires a
self-centered spirit more, will never lack for friends.
If you would have friends, cultivate solitude instead of
society. Drink in the ozone; bathe in the sunshine; and out in
the silent night, under the stars, say to yourself again and yet
again, "I am a part of all my eyes behold!" And the feeling then
will come to you that you are no mere interloper between earth
and heaven; but you are a necessary part of the whole. No harm
can come to you that does not come to all, and if you shall go
down it can only be amid a wreck of worlds.
Like old Job, that which we fear will surely come upon us. By a
wrong mental attitude we have set in motion a train of events
that ends in disaster. People who die in middle life from
disease, almost without exception, are those who have been
preparing for death. The acute tragic condition is simply the
result of a chronic state of mind a culmination of a series of
events.
Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and the
way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we do that
make us what we are.
By laying hold on the forces of the universe, you are strong
with them. And when you realize this, all else is easy, for in
your arteries will course red corpuscles, and in your heart the
determined resolution is born to do and to be. Carry your chin
in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the
chrysalis.
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