Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-01
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Are Your Thoughts
Workers or Wanderers
IN ADA PATTERSON.

Are your thoughts workers or wan.
derers?
Are they honest, Industrious la.
borers or idle loiterers along the
highway OF life. tramps that know not
nor care where they gol
Do they work steadily and ear.
uestly. with dignity, sobriety and ef.
feet. or do they lose their force by
devious wanderings and time by aim
less dawdling'
The chief difference between the
men you know is in the way they
think That man who opens his desk
with a determined bang, opens his
mail with an air OF concentration and
begins his days work as the engi-
necf starts his engine down the
track is thinking in the right way.
The one whose desk is beside his and
who opens his desk with a yawn, who
lights cigarette before he opens his
FIRST letter. who leers at the girl who
sits az the typewriting machine and
hings an idle jest at the Office boy, is
thinking in the wrong way. His
thought engine will run off the track
and oyerturn in a ditch before the
day is spent A good many keys
have been offered 10 open the door
OF success. A charming personal.
ity, an engaging address, the knowl-
edge OF human nature and the abil-
ity to apply that knowledge, a prac-
teal education. have all been offered,
but none Of these turns the lock 50
quickly as does systematic thinking
Thought is the only miracle worker
Of modern life The magic Of an idea
is the only witcheraft OF latter days.
The highest building in the world was
built because less than forty years
ago a man had an idea that he fol-
lowed as deyotedly as the wise men
of old followed the star that led them
10 the birthplace of the Christ. A
tunnel was built through what had
been termed the river of the lost hope,
uniting the largest city in the world
with the greatest continent, because
a man had an idea and did not dis
miss il, but thought OF il systemati-
cally every day. A great mail order
business that is city within a city,
that has its own railroad and IFS own
postoffiee, originated in street car
conductors writing a letter for a
watch, and his comrades requesting
him TO do the same for them He
thought about the iDcident, as the
clerk who opened his desk with
bank and went al his mail as though
he we're starting an engine down the
track He thought Of il every day,
not htfully, and wishfully, but long
and eonsecutively and as builder
erects = skyscraper in time, indeed
he did strape the sky of finance.
How do you thinks Do your
thoughts drift in and out Of your mind
IN aimless fashion as stray visitors
drift through the house in informal
sails? Do your thoughts burst up.
ward as water spouts from the nor
lie Of a kettle and splashes some
where and are gomez Do they effer-
vesce in much talk, highly charged
waters blowing out the cork of ST.
cnccl
Or do they act as sober soldiers on
long marchl
You know, and know, persons
whose thoughts ought to be arrested
Tor yagrancy, as surely as any tramp
Who snores in the sun.
Every successful career has started
upward at that point at which its
owner began the habit of systematic
linking.
Never waste your thoughts. Guard |
shem as an engineer the fuel OF his |
,ngine BE more careful OF them
han Of the coins in your pocket |
For OF them will your future be built |