Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

tics for all who hired for others this article is in
tended
There greater mistake than skimpng your workBE
CAUSE YOU ARE WORKING FOR ANOTHER AND FEAR
YOU MAY DO TOO MUCH.
For sake remember that whatever do in the
way work YOU do FIRST OF ALL FOR
YOURSELF
Only thing n improve you
your condition and that thing is your effort
You begin life with mental faculties and with certain
muscular faculties Their development decay depends entirely
Yourself
No work YOU do is worthless will NEVER pay you
Q neglect o sr the task that You have undertaken
You may be idle IN the thought that YOU ndugng
yourself at the expense of your employer dishonest
thought. and it a stupid thought at the time,
You may rob employer of the time that he pays for
but when shrb work rob yourself first of all
You that your employer pays you too little. Per
haps he does But that for hurting char
acter through dishonesty for failing develop
yourself
The store factory office n which you to your
mind what gymnasium is your muscles.
You enter gymnasium AND PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE
OF WORKING THERE
do not say to yourself This gymnasium belongs to
another The profits to him and I'll not work hard
On the contrary you realize that gymna
gives you the chance develop your muscles YOU
thank him. although he makes you pay for the privilege
do best the trape parallel bars.
any other direction,
Act in your work YOU do in your gymnasium hours
There is kind of work that fail to make you a bet
ally.
If You sweep office sweep we'll begin puncuaIIy
each day remembering that puncuay acquired sweeping
office may be used later in governing city.
Train your mind through your work. whatever is
Study the lives of those who have see
that they did whatever they did we'll as they could
Edison ordinary telegraph operator was not
content with merely working others worked very
hard devised make valuable instruments of his
employers Soon he employer himself and what far
better than being employer he of
a beneactor of the world.
Intelligent readers will not msinterpret this advice
that they should oVERWoRK themselves, work regardless of
their Ihysca welfare
The light ) this:
DO as much You the present without drawing on
Your future
Don work all night and then go 81 day. Such
effort 1mpairs permanently of vitality and that vital
i} is your capital.
But form the habit of neglecting work shammng
and lying instead of achieving honestly.
You may deceive employer, But you can de-
cojye nature and You cant deceive yourself.
You form good habits only through regular work You
develop faculties only through exercising honestly
and Systematically
MERELY WORKING FAIRLY WELL" is NOT ENOUGH
If you mile you not merely Jog You
Try day mile faster you the day before
If to learn jump high you your muscles and
try over and over to do what can't Ultimately you
achieve it,
Keep that in mind when you work Remember that YOU
must wind yourself up The watchful employer may dis
charge you But he not wind YOU up
BE sef-wnding machine and keep yourself wound up
Your hardest effort may fail greatness But hon
est work will at least make impossible for YOU to be failure
Train brain and to regular steady CON
scentlouS effort Make mind that FOR YOUR OWN
SAKE you will make every effort your best effort
You will find yourself successful more sefre
speeding ADLER or woman
And here an argun mt that should be powerful with
YOU than selfinterest
Remember that the world needs honest oonior+ s man l
able to do good work and neone the earth
&#Rp III children born of honest parents
Make up your mind to be of world HONEST citizens
70 improve the world begin by improving Yourself