Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-20
THE WILL POWER OR THE WON'T POWER.

THE WILL POWER OR THE WON'T POWER
There is one question you ought to ask yourself and
answer your own question That is "Have the WILL
power or the WON'T power?"
If you have the WILL power, then you are pleas
ure to your associates and help to your community
but If you take pleasure in being possessed OF the
WON'T power then you had better wake to the fact
that it is awful strain your friends for you to be
around where they and you are in reality drag on
the neighborhood.
It makes no difference whether you are conducting
business day laborer the son of rich fam
lily or poor one-if you have the WILL power you are
doing something, and have real friends. II you
have the WON'T power and are not doing anything, or
not doing well what you working at then no one
pays any attention to you and you ought not expect
them to.
There are young men whose families wel-to-do
these young fellows do not have to work. and their
greatest handicap is that they know it. They get under
the influence of the WON'T power These young men
are well meaning but about the practical side Of this
life they ignorant hitching posts They sent
to school and they not satisfied there, and finally
after several attempts and years. they quit school and
start to work They look around for successful IN
stitution that has presidency vacant but not finding
any presidential openings just at that time, they take
job little lower down the line but not really far
enough down for them to begin to learn the fundament
ais of the business.
In few days they are dissatisfied again. A young
of rich parents said Il have tried to work, have
tried several different jobs but yet been lucky
enough to get started in the business that ! am
adapted to-
Young man, want TO say to you that if every boy
had had rich father there would have been
successful man in this world The successful men have
had to- poor boys do whatever they could get to DO
Every morning when they went to work, their job was
Iolx
And every day. every successful business man or pro-
fessional man has to face complexities in his daily
grind that make him feel that he adapted to
anything anything adapted to him.
Young man, don't care if you rich as Croe
ss get good hold on the WILL power, start right out
today and get job it does not matter what it isGET
A JOB AND ,STICK'TU 1T. Do it better than the fel
low who had it before you was doing it. Try, try and
you will find it just as nearly adapted to youas any
other mans job is adapted to him. If you just intend to
aimlessly wander around until you find some situation
just made to your order, you'll still be wandering
around mewing like lost cat when Gabriel blows his
horn.
When John Wanamaker boy delivering
packages do you suppose mysterious power sent
him wireless, saying "John you are just especially
adapted to run department store IN Phladelphla
and one in New York; N
Not a bit Of it. He didn't know what he going
to do but he did what he could He had the WILL power
The trouble with you is that you saturated
with the WON'T power When you talk about some job
to which you are adapted you make yourself ridiculous
There isn't job in the whole world adapted to you and
there never will be until you have worked at some job
long enough to learn how to do it. Men learn how to
adapt themselves to a job, and then if they big
enough and broad enough mentally they make the bust
ness adapt itself to their system of transactng it. But
they never did that waiting for job to make itself to
their measure and then hunt them up
The WILL power does that which it finds to do