Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-09-20
WIN A FRONT SEAT IN LIFE.
Here is something from the pen of
a Boston teacher of metaphysics that
is worth reading and remembering,

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a Boston teacher of metaphysics that
is worth reading and remembering,
too:
Make up your mind that you will
have front seat in life and you at
tract to you the powers that carry
you to the front seat. If Gin mind)
you take a back seat, you get only
the back seat. The confident, deter
mined mood of mind, steadily kept
up, brings to you other confident peo-
Pile. Confidence in the business
world means both cash and credit.
There is not half money enough in
this country for doing the daily busi-
ness. What is lacking in coin and
bank notes is made up by mems
names written on bits of paper prom
ising to pay certain sums at certain
times.
What keeps thousands of noses on
the grindstone of hard times is that
they have no confidence and courage
in themselves to take risks or respon-
siblllties. They keep a poor house
in their minds and live in it. They
aspire to be only screws in the busi-
ness machine instead of striking out
and making a machine of their own.
The screws are book-keepers, tele-
graph operators, clerks and all who
never plan anything beyond situa-
ton and steady wages. Confidence
and brains combined find such screws
ready made by the thousand. 1t
makes the screw do as much work for
as little money as possible. When
one screw is worn out it throws it
aside and gets another.
The screws find fault with the mo-
nopollst. Their real slavery IS in
their own minds. They never think,
aspire, plan or demand in thought to
be anything but screws. They think
there is no place for them at the head
of business. Their first and great
steps toward staying permanently at
the tail of business lies in thinking
that they must remain at the tail. Be-
cause what is assumed or kept stead
lily in thought always frames an out
ward exact like of itself in what can
be seen. If you think clean clothes
you will always have clean clothes.
A workingman ought never look at
a millionaire palace without saying,
81 am going to have palace like
that" His saying this In dead ear
nest is one thought among many 9th
ers which pushes him toward and into
his own palace. Because it is your
thought that pushes you to do things.
If you are in the apple trade and
thought suddenly comes that you can
sell hundred barrels of apples at
certain place, you can't stay away
from that place. The idea will push
you on.
Real business does not lie alone
in being Industrious. The good
goody books and maxims have only
told half the story about industry. A
great deal depends on what you are
industrious about. If you spend all
your time and strength in polishing
the pans or blacking your boots your
industry will not carry you very high.
The industrious mind in rested
body plans in an hour what brings in
more than a tin pan polisher may
earn in a year. People who work
only or mostly with their bodies have
as good a right as the capitalist to
work with their minds. The world
always wants newer things, more Gu
rious things, more amusing things.
No workman in any trade, any art,
any profession, should be content
with doing what some one has done
before him, even though he does it
we'll. He should aim at doing some
thing better than any one has done
before him. When he can do this he
must next push it on the worlds no.
tioe.
Push is talent as much as skill is
an art. You can commence pushing
by imagining yourself pusher. Keep
yourself in your mind as pusher,
and such frame of mind will at length
make you push. There is a power in
a continual imagination of yourself
in any certain character which does
make you more and more such char
acter. Imagine that the best belongs
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coming to you. Imagine the worst,
see yourself in the poor house, and
, the poor-house comes to you. Sue
| cess, like charity, must commence at
[ home in the mind. If now you are
: compelled to live in poor room and
J on poor fare, do so only under pro-
: test. Keep your mind on the better
, room and the better fare. Don't say,
81 s'pose 1 must always take up with
this Say instead, 81 am going to
have better things than these" You
} are then creating for yourself strength
: not weakness. You are then ever
! strengthening this inexplicable men
e tai attraction which will bring things
t to you.
THE EARISTOCRA OFTALENT
s The Hon. James O.. Blaine address
ed the Chautauqua Camp at Frye
, burg, in Maine, on the subject of ed
2 ucation. In the course of his remarks
Al -